The Urgent Need For A Serious Libertarian Socialist Stance on Israel/Palestine
The Dutch liberal-left and left wing social media accounts have blindly adopted narratives that reproduce fascist ideologies of the unfortunately most powerful state and non state actors in the region.
The tremendous attention that is now pointed towards the conflict shows the liberal ideology like never before, but even further it shows a continuation of antisemitism in Western-Europe and an unreflected peer pressure to fake solidarity with Palestinian people. The pro-palestine demonstrations are occupied by far-right Bozkut (also known as Grey Wulfs) Turkish groups. Radical Islamist are also accumulating and feel comfortable on these demos.
We have to regard antisemitism not as simply another form of racism, but as an ideological resentment unlike any other form of resentment. Antisemitism was the catalyst for the singular crime of the Shoah, the extermination of 6 million Jewish people and the destruction of jewish culture in Europe. The Shoah, committed by the Germans and their collaborateurs such as the Netherlands, is singular not because of the number of people murdered or the way they were killed, but because it was a campaign of extermination as and end in itself. It was not a peripheral aspect of National Socialist ideology, but the central tenet. Neither can National Socialism be understood if Antisemitism is not in the center of analysis, nor can capitalism be understood without a firm grasp of National Socialist ideology. After Europe was freed from German occupation by the allied forces, pogroms against Jewish people did not stop (the most famous being the Kielce pogrom) and large groups of Jewish people fled Europe to the soon to be established Israel. The establishment did not occur without reason a look into the history of over 2000 years of persecution and genocide should help to understand this narrative.
Whilst rightfully pointing out the eviction of Palestinian people in East Jerusalem and the bombing and killing in the Gaza strip, the perfomative international solidarity stopped when the next day and today when Hamas attacked Tel Aviv, leaving Jewish civilians dead. This clearly indicates the nationalist antisemitic narrative of most alleged pro-palestine activists. Further, synagogues in Europe have already come under attack in Germany 3 alone last night. Whoever attempts to explain that there is no relation whatsoever between antisemitism and antizionism should try again. Zionism in itself is not a homogenous ideology and Herzl can even be understood and is rightfully so by liberal Zionists as someone who aspired a self-determination of Jews within a national context, therefore leaving the possibility for a Bi-national state open.
The above mentioned aims to offer a Antithesis (without going too much into detail) to the current discourse.
To continue: Neither the racist Israeli state nor the antisemitic palestinian authorities can be a source for our radical left wing stances. They are simply reproducing anti-arab and antisemitic sentiments under which there is no possibility for common struggle. The disillusioned left that blindly follows the Palestinian groups, might have hope for a global proletariat in the middle east against western imperialism. If your proletariat includes antisemits, radical islamists, Iranian authorities, Assad and Erdogans gang I'm out, the world has become much more complex.
As libertarian Communists we need to stand up for the class interest of both populations and work towards a cooperation of progressive forces within the region. We need to strenghten our people on the ground and support projects of cooperation. The two state solution is impossible the settlements have again manifested that. The one state Palestinian solution is historically wrong, the one state israel solution is morally as well as historically wrong.
The status quo serves the interest of the ruling class and the military industrial complex lets work on uniting the progressive forces to build a common struggle against ruthless authority.
Other than that don't follow every source blindy and do your research (accounts of course for this article too) Share pics on instagram, retweets potentially follow a agenda that you don't want to reinforce. Jews all over the world are living in fear everytime the tensions increase in the region.