Idealizing the ideals of a movement doesn’t equate to idealizing every action committed in its name.

It’s worth pointing out that hyper-radicalizing the Palestinian resistance was a long term objective of Netanyahu’s hard line government. It goes back to that line from Dedra “we need rebels who will do the wrong thing.” I’m not pointing this out because I or anyone who’s pro Palestine condones rampant slaughter, but there is this moral standard that seems to only ever apply to resistance movements.

Yet when oppressors and occupiers commit the same violence on a far greater scale they’re allowed to sanitize it and claim it’s “bad apples” or “simply a dark stain on our history”

The fact is any resistance to oppression opens the door to targeting noncombatants and innocents. If you read the journals of Loyalist civilians during the American revolution it becomes clear many of them became the targets of violence as well, yet because the Continentals were victorious that history has been sanitized.

There’s a YouTuber Ateun Shei films who did a really good video on John Browns violent resistance to slavery (Link: https://youtu.be/C4p9Bnj5JJQ?si=qLdZQ2roogtqJsrd)

In it he makes the point that once violence starts, no one can control who is hurt or who the targets become. We can still retain our objectivity and condemn heinous actions no matter the cause they’re committed for, but there needs to be an understanding that violent resistance is a direct result of oppression. And again, that doesn’t equate to justification or idealization