Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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The west has long history of westerners who are lauded as progressive because they are supposedly against said bad thing outside their borders but denigrate the people actually fighting said bad thing. These westerners gain support because they promise to distribute the loot of imperialism more equitably but will effectively do zilch against said imperialism.
One can rationalise away what Mamdani said above but given the context of everything else he said it is clear what this is: liberal zionism. If you're against zionism but you admonish the people on the ground fighting said zionism, especially during a genocide, then you're not against zionism.
Liberalism has a special skill to isolate anything outside of its wider context and resort to non-scientific essentialism; dialectical materialism does not tolerate such nonsense, it is best to learn this superpower in this cruel world.