Four points on solidarity after the Gaza genocide

from Mondoweiss

The history of the Zionist settler state in Palestine is an unbroken chain of violence perpetrated by it against those whose land it covets. This statement, however inconvenient it is to Zionist myth-makers and liberal Zionist fantasies of a redeemable Israel, is not an opinion. Rather, it is a meticulously substantiated, incontrovertible historical fact that only ignorance, prejudice, or plain racism can deny. 

It is more accurate to say, then, that the Zionist settler state in Palestine itself is an unbroken chain of violence. Its defining feature, its inherent and fundamental quality — upon which its existence was forged and is now inescapably maintained — is that of systematic violence enacted primarily, but not solely, against the Palestinian people whose land it stole in order to exist. 

This violence manifests in every imaginable — and often unimaginable — form, from the most genocidal and massive in scale in Gaza today, to the more routine but deeply insidious acts of aggression, humiliation, indignity, and psychological torture...

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