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"Zionism Has Lost Young America" by As' ad AbuKhalil

 

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AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Zionism Has Lost Young America

December 13, 2023

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Nobody really believes there’s a threat to Jewish students on campuses or that pro-Palestinian students are subjecting their Jewish classmates to abuse or harassment.

A speaker at a major protest in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 1, 2020, against threatened Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank. (Joe Catron, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)

By As`ad AbuKhalil
Special to Consortium News 

A specter is haunting U.S. college campuses, and it is the specter not of anti-Semitism but of opposition to anti-Semitism. 

No one would object to fighting hate, particularly the ancient form of hate against Jewish people, if the movement against anti-Semitism were truly about combating anti-Semitism. 

But the battle on college campuses is instead unmistakably a political battle directed against Palestinian activism and nationalism.  This has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. Instead Zionists hurl charges of anti-Semitism around to police speech and ban expressions of pro-Palestinian nationalism. 

When the the Anti-Defamation League counts rallies protesting Israeli genocide as examples of anti-Semitism, you know that it is not about anti-Semitism  anymore.  It’s about an attempt by a pro-Israel group to shield Israeli aggression and occupation from criticism.

The Change on Campus

The shape of student activism on college campuses has changed; the struggle for Palestine is no longer confined to Arab and Muslim students. To be sure, the movement historically did attract progressive Jewish students, but the movement was composed largely of Arabs and Muslims.  

In recent years, American youth have been moving away from Democratic Party politics, instead embracing Third-World-style progressiveness.  Furthermore, the Black Lives Matter movement has adopted Palestine as one of its causes and that supplied the Palestinian movement with a current of local domestic radicalism.  

Black Lives Matter demonstration in Berlin, June 24, 2017. (Montecruz Foto, Creative Commons: Attribution Share Alike)

BLM was able to identify the racist impulse in Zionism — years after failed attempts by Palestinians and their Arab supporters to make that case.  Zionist founders were never shy about their contempt for the natives and their belief in the superiority of Israelis vs. Arabs.

Books and articles were produced in Israel or in the West by Israelis to show the genetic inferiority of Arabs.  The notorious book, The Arab Mind, has never been out of print and is still used in the West and Israel as a manual on Arab political and social behavior. 

The intersectionality of Palestine with American radical movements propelled Palestine, for the first time in its history, into American progressive causes. 

Yet, Democratic liberals and mainstream feminists — like the National Organization of Women and Feminist Majority — remain solidly behind Israeli mass violence.  To date, NOW has released only one statement about Palestine; and it was to condemn Hamas.

Zionism’s Colonialist Context

Delegates at the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897. (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

Zionism would not have been launched without the context of Western colonial thought and practices.  The first document of the Zionist Congress in 1897 did not shy away from using the word colonialism.  And you need a thrust of racism to be able to justify the establishment of a Jewish state on a land with a majority of non-Jews. 

Just like South Africa, the Zionist project was predicated on the belief in the inferiority of the subject race. It is this element in Zionism which allowed progressive minorities in the U.S., and some whites, to identify with Palestinian outrage at Israeli racism and subjugation. 

The debate that has taken place in Congress and on op-ed pages of U.S. newspapers is misleading.

Nobody really believes there’s a threat to Jewish students on campuses or that pro-Palestinian students are subjecting their Jewish classmates to abuse or harassment.

And surely nobody really believes a Palestinian lobby has taken over Congress, the U.S. media and university administrations. 

[See Academic Freedom Under Fire as Gaza Burns;  Zionist Suppression in Congress and PATRICK LAWRENCE: Gaza & Confronting Power]

The contrived debate revolves around the realization by Zionist organizations that they’ve lost young people in the U.S.  Public opinion surveys show this demographic is quite clearly on the side of Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.

Thus losing American youth has led to a counterattack by supporters of Israel.  

Students in New York protesting in support of Gaza outside the Israeli consulate on April 29, 2015. (Joe Catron, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)

[WATCH: Anti-Genocide Protesters Arrested at US Capitol]

Israel supporters aren’t debating the facts of the conflict and aren’t even providing justifications for the genocide in Gaza.  Instead, they are branding all manifestation of pro-Palestinian activism as anti-Semitism. 

This is a backlash that is likely to continue and is also destined to fail. Israel’s massacres speak for themselves, despite the propaganda attempts to whitewash them. 

“Supporters of Israel are not debating the facts of the conflict and are not even providing justifications for the genocide in Gaza.  Instead, they are branding all manifestation of pro-Palestinian activism as anti-Semitism.”

No examples of anti-Semitic rhetoric by pro-Palestinian students have been produced as evidence, because there are none.

The slogans being chanted across the country refer to Palestinian national aspirations of freedom. “Free, free Palestine” is the most oft-chanted phrase in demonstrations.  But Zionist organizations have suddenly decided the word “intifada” (Arabic for uprising) implies genocide against Jews.  

Intifada — Against Arab & Muslim Governments

The word has been applied repeatedly by Arabs since the 20th century to refer to political movements and revolts against Arab and Muslim governments. The usage long preceded that of the Palestinian intifada of 1987.  

Iraqi contemporary history is replete with intifadas against the British and later against the ruling governments. Nobody ever charged Arab rebels with genocidal intent when they revolted against Arab governments. 

Similarly, Egyptians referred to their January 1977 revolt against the cruel economic policies of President Anwar Sadat (the West’s favorite despot, despite his anti-Semitism) as the “January Intifada” while Sadat later dubbed it “the Intifada of thieves.” 

The other slogan under fire is “from the river to the sea,” which simply denotes the geographical area from which all Palestinians originally hail. 

Would Israel and the U.S. prefer Palestinians to say: “From Area A to Area B, under Oslo,” or limit the historical imagination to fit the narrow parameters of a Palestinian entity within less than 20 percent of historic Palestine?

That’s impossible. Palestinians can’t deform their own history to allay the fears of Israelis; they also can’t tailor their slogans to satisfy the concerns of Zionist groups in the U.S.. 

It is not true that this slogan about historic Palestine entails the expulsion or murder of Jews. No such demand has ever been voiced by any Palestinian political group since 1948. 

The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s charter was very clear in demanding a state in all of Palestine, but it never proposed to murder Jews; similarly the Hamas charter of 2017 makes no such reference and even talks about confining its enmity toward Zionism and not toward Jews as Jews. (Hizbullah made a similar clarification in its political document from 2009).  

“Israel and U.S. would like the Palestinians to say: ‘from Area A to Area B, under Oslo,’ or to limit the historical imagination to fit into the narrow parameters of a Palestinian entity within less than 20 percent of historic Palestine.”

It’s understandable that Zionist groups in the U.S. are desperate; they are quickly losing support among young people in general, and college campuses in particular. 

The Israeli cause that was once “cool” among Western youths, has become the most “uncool” of causes, while Palestine has captured the imagination of young people worldwide.  

Social media has become the driving force transforming world public opinion. Before it, Israel committed its crimes quietly away from the cameras. 

In 1987, the late U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger advised the Israeli government to expel media from the West Bank before using use force to quell the uprising there.  

The ability of Zionist groups to control the narrative in the leading media has been undermined by virtue of the proliferation of social and independent media. It can’t be muzzled.

Pressure can no longer impose the narrative Israel has insisted upon since 1948.  Young people today share graphic proof of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.  

In a futile attempt to return to the pre-social media era, Israel has come up with the idea that anti-Semitism needs to be redefined to include all expressions of protest for Palestine and any manifestation of opposition to Israel and its crimes.  

Western governments are going along with Israel’s new definition. But they failing to impose it on society, especially when Jewish groups (like Jewish Voices for Peace) and Jewish individuals (such as U.S social scientist Norman Finkelstein, journalist Max Blumenthal, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, among many others) are in the forefront of pro-Palestinian campaigns.  

Young Palestinian Women’s Fierce Leadership 

Protester outside annual AIPAC meeting in Washington, March 20, 2016. (Susan Melkisethian, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Activism for Palestine in the U.S. has changed markedly from my days as a student in the 1980s.  Arab groups back then were very cautious and their male leaders were easily intimidated by Zionist groups. Many would get flustered when asked if they recognized the state of Israel.  

Today, the leadership of the movement is spearheaded by young Palestinian-American women who can’t be intimidated. They are fierce in their rejection of Zionist pressure tactics.  Israel has a major problem with these brave women and doxing and other methods of defamation and vilification are being wielded to stigmatize and marginalize them.  

But Israel’s problem is much bigger than a PR matter.  It’s problem is that it is a colonial, racist state resorting to tactics of 19th century colonial powers in an age of 21st century new media.  

Israel has become an anachronistic entity which does not fit within the modern norm of expected decency, humanity and international law: and all those ideals are blatantly violated and trampled upon by Western powers who continue to support Israel.  

Ultimately Israel can’t win militarily against the Palestinians and it has already lost the media war. This has been made clear by a U.S. president, who never fails to remind us that he is an unabashed Zionist (which makes sense given his checkered history when it comes to race). 

The notion that pro-Israel groups can bully and muzzle American students, led by young Palestinian women, reveals a deep ignorance of how far they have gone to lose the youth of America. 

As`ad AbuKhalil is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New War on Terrorism (2002), The Battle for Saudi Arabia (2004) and ran the popular The Angry Arab blog. He tweets as @asadabukhalil

"The Canadian Truckers Actually Won?" by Celia Farber

 

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THE CANADIAN TRUCKERS ACTUALLY WON? "It might just have been the most successful individual protest in human history."

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“The Freedom Convoy was the most wildly immediately successful protest in Canadian history, maybe WORLD history.

People remember Trudeau's crackdown, old ladies having their skulls cracked with batons, Disabled indigenous grandmothers trampled by police horses, Bank accounts frozen and public employees investigated for mere donations...

And there's a big reason people remember this... It was dramatic, and the media and the regime certainly wanted you to think resistance was futile...

What people don't remember is what happened in the immediate aftermath: The government caved on absolutely everything within a week for the most important things, and then a month or so for the rest.”

—Kulak

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The Truckers Won. Everything.

On the Ascendant Class Rebellion

KULAK

JUN 7, 2023

CROSS-POST FROM ANARCHONOMICON

The freezing of bank accounts disgusted me above all the other atrocities we were experiencing globally at the time. Sadly, here in the UK we are seeing the banks wielding that power without shame. Nigel Farage's Coutts bank account was cancelled and now I hear that he is not alone in being rejected as a business client on political grounds. Yes, the Truckers were a raving success but the Banksters are still hammering their opposition financially and clamouring for us to be cancelled from all social media. The battle in Ottawa was won but the cyber battlefields are where we are being crippled. -

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I keep encountering this misconception from people who don't follow Canadian politics...

That somehow the Trucker convoy was defeated.

The Freedom Convoy was the most wildly immediately successful protest in Canadian history, maybe WORLD history.

People remember Trudeau's crackdown, old ladies having their skulls cracked with batons, Disabled indigenous grandmothers trampled by police horses, Bank accounts frozen and public employees investigated for mere donations...

And there's a big reason people remember this... It was dramatic, and the media and the regime certainly wanted you to think resistance was futile...

What people don't remember is what happened in the immediate aftermath: The government caved on absolutely everything within a week for the most important things, and then a month or so for the rest.

First off there was the massive political shift that happened as the convoy was occurring:

Jason Kenny, the pro-lockdown Premiere of Alberta (Canada's most conservative province) was forced to announce his resignation, and Alberta immediately lifted all it's lockdown impositions.

Erin O'Toole the pro-lockdown leader of the Conservative Party was likewise forced to resign, his temporary replacement Candice Bergen (not to be mistaken with the actress) being a longtime rival opposed to lockdowns, and his main rival who replaced her after intra-party elections was Pierre Poilievre, the Politician after Maxime Bernier who was quickest to embrace the Truckers and their cry for freedom.

As the convoy was ongoing Trudeau invoked the Emergencies act (the Act which replaced the War Meassures Act for invoking Martial Law)... Now these grant the government almost unlimited powers, famously the War Meassures Act was invoked by Trudeau's Father to detain Quebeckers and raid hundreds of homes without warrants during the FLQ separatist crisis of 1972...the catch is that while the follow on Emergencies act can be invoked by a Prime Minister parlaiment has to sign off on the act's continued use within one week.

Well skulls were cracked, accounts frozen, and as the week passed things came down to the deadline... On the very last night... Trudeau managed to get sign-off (without the conservative opposition) from the House of Commons, but it had to go to the Upper House, the Canadian Senate.

NOW. The Canadian Senate is a shameful institution.

It's like the British House of Lords but without the nobility.

A senate seat is a lifetime appointment, by the prime minister... and that's it. Little to no review, no democratic input, and this is supposed to be equivalent or superior to our elected House of Commons...

Naturally the go-to use of the Senate is as a spoils system for cronies. Do some shameful favour for a prime minister, raise a lot of money for the party, be politically connected to a provincial gov the PM wants to buy off... Get a Senate seat.

One of the longest-standing political agreements in Canada is how badly the Senate needs to be abolished... but can't be because Quebec is nominally overrepresented in the Senate, and abolishing it would cause a constitutional crisis.

So mostly the Senate keeps it's head down and tries to avoid the news... because it will never be sympathetic.

So this nursing home for cronies, criminals, fall guys, and connected activists past...people who's names haven't been spoken aloud since 1996... an institution that was last in the news 10 years ago for an expense scandal whose essence was "Wait we're paying these leeches expenses!?"... that body was called upon to sign off on the emergencies act...

And all these self-important losers smelled blood in the water.

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Did they have some principled stand on civil liberties grounds? Absolutely NOT.

They had a principled objection that they weren't being treated as more important!

Sure they'd consider signing off on Trudeau's abuses, but they wanted an ongoing senate committee to continuously review the abuses, with cabinet level briefings for the committee members, regular pressers, inclusion on the forming of policy... Juicy Juicy INFLUENCE.

The exact thing these shameful roaches had been denied ever since their real political careers flamed out in '92 and they'd been forced to become lost souls in the senate.

The speeches these delusional 70-year-old nobodies gave...MY GOD barely coherent gibberish from geriatrics convinced they were great statesmen... convinced their wisdom might now be included in great volumes of Canadian oratory next to Laurier, Macdonald, and Pearson...

With mere hours left to the deadline, no passage in sight, and the nightmare of dealing with these people before him ... Trudeau voluntarily withdrew the act.

Pictured: A Canadian Senator smells Influence on Trudeau

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In the preceding week his Finance minister Crystia Freeland had given press statements and interviews to the effect that they planned to hunt down everyone who donated to the convoy, and create an expansive new system of financial control... with hints this would extend not only to the protesters, but all the unvaccinated...none of this would happen.

Instead Trudeau weekly tried to claim victory... There were no protestors in Ottawa or on bridges! But in the week that followed lockdown measures were quickly and quietly pulled back. Alberta had already rescinded their measures, and other provinces were following suit. By June almost all domestic restrictions were gone the regime desperately afraid that if the Protesters were able to shut down the capital and cross-border trade in minus 20 to minus 40 degree weather...what might they do in the Summer? Canada Day (July 1) was approached with fear.

By August I travelled to the US for a wedding... Unvaccinated. The greater barrier being the risk the US would refuse me entry than that Canada would hastle me. The US border guard didn't ask.

And on the way back the Canadian border guard, obviously over with this stuff, told me "Now because you're unvaccinated you do technically have to quarantine, and they could possibly call, and if you say you haven't been quarantining they might do something..." I received one email from public health and immediately deleted it. There was no enforcement.

I travelled again in October, and was not even asked uponreturn.

The last measures had been withdrawn.

The Greatest barrier to travel was US border restrictions and requirements... which technically only ended in May this year.

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WITHIN 1 month the trucker convoy had effected a hostile overthrow of the Governments of Alberta and the official opposition, the Conservative Party of Canada, from pro to anti- lockdown, and crushed the moderate wing of the conservative movement.

At Multiple points Trudeau was nearly forced out by his own party and his government was humiliated with most of it's perceived power destroyed, it now exists as a rump failing to pass gun control bills (IN CANADA!) against moderate opposition.

Within 2-4 months all domestic restrictions were gone and within 8 months even the pantomime of international restrictions didn't exist, Canada had fewer covid restrictions than the US.

COMPLETE CONSENSUS had be totally destroyed such that in less than a year the national consensus was the polar opposite.

And all the actual action took place in 1 month, on the coldest days of the year, with a movement who's key members had to drive 4000-5000km (~3000 miles) along treacherous northern roads being greeted roadside by supporters who stood out in minus 40 to give them coffee food and support.

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This was at once the most logistically challenging protest in human history involving the volunteering of tens of millions of dollars of equipment, weeks of time, tens of thousands of people, across a continent...

The most successful violent revolutions have not achieved such total reversals in culture and policy across so many levels of government, in such few short months.

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THERE IS A VERY GOOD REASON THE REGIME WANTS YOU TO THINK OF IT AS A FAILURE.

The same reason things like Brexit, the Yellow Vests in France, or Jan 6th, or the Dutch Farmers protest freaked out the elite so much.

The greatest possible threat to them is that the mass of the Suburban and rural Middle-class: Flyover country, the Petite Bourgeoise, the small business owners, the farmers, the truckers, the Kulaks... The greatest possible threat to the regime is that this mass will realize its incredible power both in coordination, logistics, and initiative... And that it will overthrow the governing class of Bureaucrats, Regulators, Lawyers, DEI Administrators, and leaches who've gotten rich surviving of their tax cattle who actually work and produce things.

They HAVE to play off the Truckers as a failure... Trudeau had to declare victory then cave on every single individual policy.... because they can't let people see what it was:

A premonition of the great Class War to come.

—Kulak