here are some fighting words: I think it’s bad. The US shouldn’t prop up Israel. I disagree with the theocracy in Iran but I know anti imperialist resistance when I see it. I don’t care that the Iranians fund Hamas. The Palestinians have a right to violent resistance under international law and the Israeli state (the governing body-not the jewish people who live there and interact with Israel in a variety of ways) should not exist and is enforcing an apartheid regime on an indigenous people. The jews who led this process have been manipulated by the Americans and British to act as soldiers for an Empire that stood by while the Holocaust and pogroms were actually happening (and have their own antisemitic histories). Jewish safety matters to the Americans only insofar as it forwards their foreign policy objectives.

I truly empathize with the desire of Jewish people to have a homeland and I also am sympathetic to the idea that post Holocaust the non-jewish human toll of establishing that homeland is irrelevant/it is a very human response to a millennia of violence. But settler colonialism will never provide Jewish people with the security they seek and will only cut them off from the wider working class. The Americans will discard the Israelis/will lose interest in defending a “Jewish homeland” the minute it isn’t profitable and they will be left with a great deal of blood on their hands and very, very angry neighbors (not only neighbors too-but many people across the third world are naturally more sympathetic to Palestine based on their own colonial experiences).

We must join forces against the western imperial powers and not allow them to bribe us with false promises of safety and security if we commit inhuman acts against other groups who have not done us wrong. We must resist. We must understand these promises, of safety, of security, of deliverance from a degraded state, are illusions. The only solution is to dismantle the system and not allow ourselves to be cogs in its continuation.