From the great truth of white supremacy to the law of all laws that the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people (and that “Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel”, in violation of intrenational law).
None of this bigotry would exist if it wasn’t for European colonialism needing to create an actually successful reimagining of itself with bigotry further driven and cemented into its heart than even the US was able to sustain.
This mass violence is a direct result of the entrenched power structures of Europe and the US refusing to grapple with how intimately connected eugenics, genocide and dehumanization are in sustaining European and US culture.
This does not take the blame away from Israelis, but we are doomed to accelerate this process if we do not understand it.
It seems like Israel is a looking glass, seeing the US in 20 years. Maybe not long before they get their first checkpoints in the US, to check their race and papers.
Yes… or is it that Israel is a looking glass into the US or South Africa 20 years ago? Is it not a technology-supercharged return to the parts of the 20th century where colonial powers committed, sustained and exploited genocide for profit?
Or rather is this not the cynical fulcrum the blazen bigotry of Netanyahu and similar Israeli leaders are trying to secure their future across? That is, if they tie the colonialism and genocide of Palestinians to the US… then US society will naturally be forced to invisiblize the Palestinian Genocide the same way it has invisiblized the other ongoing genocides in the US.
Netanyahu and conservative leaders like him in Israeli society are absolutely counting on the shakey liberalism of the US and other western powers not being able to survive this degree of self-reckoning, and so far they are absolutely right. Everything is perfectly on schedule for the west to arrive as the savior to Palestinians right at the moment that the genocide nearly fully completes… enabled the whole time by US weapons and diplomatic cover.
US police have trained heavily with the IDF, the connection between the Israeli society becoming genocidal and the US struggling to avoid drowning to the same fate goes back to the origins of the US, the systems of violence and exploitation it festered and the ideologies of eugenics and white supremacy it has consistently pursued.
This is why I get so upset about the Palestinian Genocide vs the multitude of other heinous crimes occuring as we speak on earth, it doesn’t matter that Gaza is across the world from me and it isn’t just that the scale of suffering is incomprehensible, it is that the actions of the US government make what happens there directly relevant to my ability to sleep at night here in the US.