i am certainly willing to agree that some palestinian groups have done fucked up things to israelis and that, as you point out, there are double standards in so far as israel’s fucked up policies are credited for all violence against jews/israel and not the same for muslims and islam. but it seems to be reasonable (whatever reasonable may be…) that we can have a critique of israel’s policies, state violence, and nationalist rhetoric without resorting to crude and ethically inappropriate comparisons to the warsaw ghetto, and without hating on Israel anymore than other State’s violences (prisons, police, military, war, etc).

A critique of others’ dogmatic anti-israel or anti-american sentiment is important and right on, but to dogmatically and ideologically flip to the other binary, unconditionally, and be pro-israel and pro-american or pro-corporations or whatever is totally… well… undialectical to say the least. these are often the positions that anti-deutschers take up. it doesn’t preserve the force of radical critique that questions everything and asserts political positions contingently and out of necessity.

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