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The now-ratty ol' keffiyeh that has followed me 'round for two decades of pro-Palestine organizing; & a couple o' books that has too.
("Ratty" as the keffiyeh's gotten, I can assure you the whole time I've nonetheless been & I remain a wolf).
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("Ratty" as the keffiyeh's gotten, I can assure you the whole time I've nonetheless been & I remain a wolf).
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Category Fursuiting / Fat Furs
Species Wolf
Size 1792 x 2056px
File Size 1010.6 kB
It certainly does! I was hardly the type of protester ever lookin' to stir up unnecessary trouble--so nothing particularly action-packed--but as you know, if you're pro-Palestine, especially in the US, the trouble often comes lookin' for you.
I came of age politically during Netanyahu's FIRST term as Prime Minister and during the aftermath of the historical joke that is the Oslo Accords. By the time I entered college at 17, the Second Intifada had been raging for a few years, Ariel Sharon, "The Butcher of Beirut" was Prime Minister, the BDS movement was just starting, and I immediately joined a revolutionary socialist organization and the anti-Zionist movement.
If there's one remarkable thing to note summarizing these two decades of pro-Palestine work from the US vantage, it is the sea change in the US public's attitude toward Zionism.
I attended an Ivy, and when we solidarity activists referred to elite universities as the "belly of the beast," we were describing not only these "enlightened" and unfathomably wealthy knowledge-institutions' function in materially & ideologically perpetuating Israeli settler-colonialism; we also were taking note of how repressive an environment it was for any dissent on the issue whatsoever.
I have many anecdotes about this historical dynamic, and I'd be happy to DM if you ever wanna chat! Indeed, sustaining an SJP organization was almost unviable. While Hillel was one of the most powerful student organizations on campus, and it was a ubiquitous sight--the students returning from Birthright with their IDF hoodies--our tiny SJP struggled to get any sponsorship, and at times failed to maintain student organization status/receive funding due to repression.
For our socialist chapter, without exaggeration, our principled anti-Zionism was the issue most often a dealbreaker for potential recruits. We would frequently meet a leftist activist interested in our org, and they'd be on board with everything we were saying, but when the issue of Israel came up, apparently "socialism" for them also entailed rabidly defending ethnic cleansing.
This became such an issue that our org's regional coordinator would often criticize comrades as "ultra-left" if they brought up the issue of Palestine. When I designed & produced a T-shirt for the org that included the iconic imagery of the young boy throwing a stone at an IDF tank--I still have the shirt actually!--it was massively popular at our cons, but still condemned as "ultra-left" by leadership. (That guy was a dick, and I still resent him for it, lol).
So two decades later, seeing these student encampments brings tears to my eyes. I could almost not have imagined such a shift, in fact led by students at the "belly of the beast" schools like Columbia, Harvard, Yale, &c. You have to understand, I knew ONE anti-Zionist Jew in my time organizing at the Ivy I attended.
(He was a Law student who had lived & worked in the West Bank during the Second Intifada, providing legal aid. V. interesting fellow--he loved to rub shoulders with all sorts of characters while stirrin' shit up, and had a deep firsthand knowledge of so many on-the-ground topics. If you asked, he could give you extensive rundowns on stuff like, for example, beefs among the PFLP & the DPFLP, and the Islamists. I believe he worked with ISM pretty extensively around the time Rachel Corrie was murdered. I hope he's doin' OK.)
So to see a growing & increasingly militant solidarity movement, this time led by Arabs & Muslims AND anti-Zionist Jews--not to mention folks representing almost every other imaginable walk of life--is ineffably heartwarming.
Here's one quick story: I remember protesting Shimon Peres, former PM & President of Israel, and one of the people most credited with the disastrous Oslo Accords, when he visited our school. Our protest was one of the bigger anti-Zionist protests I attended there, yet was still only 15 to 20 people. We were required to stand far away from the auditorium--almost out of sight--that was filled to the brim with starry-eyed Zionist students, like, everyone else on campus. When Peres finally pulled up with his detail, in a caravan of unmarked SUVs with tinted windows, we could see the muzzles of military-grade guns peeking over the tops of the windows, trained on us protesters the entire time.
That really emblematized the deranged violent assumptions but also arrogance of Zionism. Remember the time Netanyahu subverted Obama, and spoke to our Congress directly instead? I don't engage in conspiracy theories, but I cannot think of any other Western country that would treat a head of state like that, especially not POTUS. And in the above case, they were guests to our country yet perfectly comfortable pointing guns at US citizens exercising their free speech.
In contrast, when Ahmadinejad was President of Iran, he visited Columbia University, and couldn't have received a more hostile response, with half the school up in arms & attempting to cancel his visit. I'm no fan of Ahmadinejad or the Iranian state, but Zionists' openness about their own double standard is utterly shameless.
Anyway, woofs & solidarity! I gave you follows on Twitter, I appreciate the awareness you're bringing to the issue. & thank you much for the comment & connecting. <3
I came of age politically during Netanyahu's FIRST term as Prime Minister and during the aftermath of the historical joke that is the Oslo Accords. By the time I entered college at 17, the Second Intifada had been raging for a few years, Ariel Sharon, "The Butcher of Beirut" was Prime Minister, the BDS movement was just starting, and I immediately joined a revolutionary socialist organization and the anti-Zionist movement.
If there's one remarkable thing to note summarizing these two decades of pro-Palestine work from the US vantage, it is the sea change in the US public's attitude toward Zionism.
I attended an Ivy, and when we solidarity activists referred to elite universities as the "belly of the beast," we were describing not only these "enlightened" and unfathomably wealthy knowledge-institutions' function in materially & ideologically perpetuating Israeli settler-colonialism; we also were taking note of how repressive an environment it was for any dissent on the issue whatsoever.
I have many anecdotes about this historical dynamic, and I'd be happy to DM if you ever wanna chat! Indeed, sustaining an SJP organization was almost unviable. While Hillel was one of the most powerful student organizations on campus, and it was a ubiquitous sight--the students returning from Birthright with their IDF hoodies--our tiny SJP struggled to get any sponsorship, and at times failed to maintain student organization status/receive funding due to repression.
For our socialist chapter, without exaggeration, our principled anti-Zionism was the issue most often a dealbreaker for potential recruits. We would frequently meet a leftist activist interested in our org, and they'd be on board with everything we were saying, but when the issue of Israel came up, apparently "socialism" for them also entailed rabidly defending ethnic cleansing.
This became such an issue that our org's regional coordinator would often criticize comrades as "ultra-left" if they brought up the issue of Palestine. When I designed & produced a T-shirt for the org that included the iconic imagery of the young boy throwing a stone at an IDF tank--I still have the shirt actually!--it was massively popular at our cons, but still condemned as "ultra-left" by leadership. (That guy was a dick, and I still resent him for it, lol).
So two decades later, seeing these student encampments brings tears to my eyes. I could almost not have imagined such a shift, in fact led by students at the "belly of the beast" schools like Columbia, Harvard, Yale, &c. You have to understand, I knew ONE anti-Zionist Jew in my time organizing at the Ivy I attended.
(He was a Law student who had lived & worked in the West Bank during the Second Intifada, providing legal aid. V. interesting fellow--he loved to rub shoulders with all sorts of characters while stirrin' shit up, and had a deep firsthand knowledge of so many on-the-ground topics. If you asked, he could give you extensive rundowns on stuff like, for example, beefs among the PFLP & the DPFLP, and the Islamists. I believe he worked with ISM pretty extensively around the time Rachel Corrie was murdered. I hope he's doin' OK.)
So to see a growing & increasingly militant solidarity movement, this time led by Arabs & Muslims AND anti-Zionist Jews--not to mention folks representing almost every other imaginable walk of life--is ineffably heartwarming.
Here's one quick story: I remember protesting Shimon Peres, former PM & President of Israel, and one of the people most credited with the disastrous Oslo Accords, when he visited our school. Our protest was one of the bigger anti-Zionist protests I attended there, yet was still only 15 to 20 people. We were required to stand far away from the auditorium--almost out of sight--that was filled to the brim with starry-eyed Zionist students, like, everyone else on campus. When Peres finally pulled up with his detail, in a caravan of unmarked SUVs with tinted windows, we could see the muzzles of military-grade guns peeking over the tops of the windows, trained on us protesters the entire time.
That really emblematized the deranged violent assumptions but also arrogance of Zionism. Remember the time Netanyahu subverted Obama, and spoke to our Congress directly instead? I don't engage in conspiracy theories, but I cannot think of any other Western country that would treat a head of state like that, especially not POTUS. And in the above case, they were guests to our country yet perfectly comfortable pointing guns at US citizens exercising their free speech.
In contrast, when Ahmadinejad was President of Iran, he visited Columbia University, and couldn't have received a more hostile response, with half the school up in arms & attempting to cancel his visit. I'm no fan of Ahmadinejad or the Iranian state, but Zionists' openness about their own double standard is utterly shameless.
Anyway, woofs & solidarity! I gave you follows on Twitter, I appreciate the awareness you're bringing to the issue. & thank you much for the comment & connecting. <3
You know that the "Intifada" caused the deaths of Jewish civilians. The term globalization of the Intifada also caused many attacks on the Jewish community, the simplest example being the Amsterdam incident. If resistance is achieved through murder and suicide bombings run by Hamas and other terrorist organizations, then you are supporting genocide against the Jews. Which makes you just a dirty Nazi piece of shit.
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