As war drives a rift among progressives, Ahmed Moor and Joshua Leifer consider the future of the movement for Palestinian freedom
or years I’ve watched hopefully as Palestinians, Jews, and other people of goodwill have begun building a mass movement in the US for Palestinian freedom. With Hamas’s attacks in southernThis moment of agony, rage, and terror is driving many Jews and Palestinians away from each other.
Protesters at a rally organized by foreign, Palestinian and Israeli activists in the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah last year to denounce a years-long bid by Jewish settlers to take over Arab homes in the neighborhood.The left that I believe in and feel like I’m a part of is a left that abhors the killing of civilians.
I fear that has come true. American Jewish institutional life hasn’t been this lockstep on Israel in more than 15 years. That’s a huge loss in the long run.I experienced a commingled set of feelings. You can’t, as a Palestinian, as somebody of conscience, observe that bulldozer breaking through that wall and not feel a sense that “the natives have broken free – good for them”. At the same time, I had a deep sense of foreboding.
I’ve seen the slogan “this is what decolonization looks like” a lot. But there are many things decolonization could look like. Decolonization could look like something more resembling the South Africa model, Peter, as, where a system of apartheid and oppression and ethno-racial hierarchy falls, but the people themselves continue to live. I would support that form of decolonization.
I think a lot of armchair activists – and I don’t want to speak derisively – read books about Algeria and Franz Fanon, but they don’t really have a view of what horrific violence means, or what it means to invite a set of conditions in which a lot of young people, babies, are dead. You kind of want to ask them – what do you mean precisely? The end of Zionism? Absolutely. I’m on board. Violence, community violence, ethnic violence? No, that’s not what I’m about.
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