It seems minor in the scheme of things, but amongst the most shocking elements to happen since the terror attack in Israel on 7 October, on top of the horrendous loss of life, the depravity of Hamas’s barbarism, the renewed suffering and destruction in Gaza, the wearily predictable wave of anti-Jewish hate crime, the sense of a world order spiralling out of control and into war upon war – it is the people ripping down posters of Israeli hostages who have come to symbolise our loss of shared humanity.
Up until now, the some of the "from the river to the sea" crowd, like Marc Lamont Hill, PhD in communications and an endowed chair at Temple U have tried to be coy about the extent of their support, claiming on the one hand that he had no idea that this was a call for genocide against Jews, but on the other saying it wasn't for him to determine what constituted "resistance". Peter Beinart hasn't exactly retracted his position that Israel should be dissolved into a "secular democratic binational state" which has never been what Hamas has promised, nor Mahmoud Abbas for that matter. So yes, not surprising that there are so many ghouls out there, happy to continue dehumanizing Jews.
Anyone who recommends one state is the solution to Israel-Palestine needs to explain why one state would work better there than in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the Indian subcontinent, or the British Isles.
Any discussion of current events which doesn’t have a recognition that Hamas are genocidal antisemites akin to the Nazis as a central premise is worthless, and that seems to be quite a lot of current discussion. Such a recognition is quite compatible with all sorts of criticism of the Netanyahu government and Israel more generally, but lots of “pro-Palestinians” seem quite unprepared for it.
Up until now, the some of the "from the river to the sea" crowd, like Marc Lamont Hill, PhD in communications and an endowed chair at Temple U have tried to be coy about the extent of their support, claiming on the one hand that he had no idea that this was a call for genocide against Jews, but on the other saying it wasn't for him to determine what constituted "resistance". Peter Beinart hasn't exactly retracted his position that Israel should be dissolved into a "secular democratic binational state" which has never been what Hamas has promised, nor Mahmoud Abbas for that matter. So yes, not surprising that there are so many ghouls out there, happy to continue dehumanizing Jews.
Anyone who recommends one state is the solution to Israel-Palestine needs to explain why one state would work better there than in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the Indian subcontinent, or the British Isles.
Any discussion of current events which doesn’t have a recognition that Hamas are genocidal antisemites akin to the Nazis as a central premise is worthless, and that seems to be quite a lot of current discussion. Such a recognition is quite compatible with all sorts of criticism of the Netanyahu government and Israel more generally, but lots of “pro-Palestinians” seem quite unprepared for it.