re: #124 The Ghost of a Flea

That group…and anyone that tries to frame Israel/Palestine as simply “racist” is dumb or cynically appropriating the language of racial struggle.

It’s a kind of disrespect for the gravity of the situation to just slap a label on it and not look at what’s happening in depth.

This is true, however, framing I/P as a conflict between white colonialist invaders and the indigenous brown people of the region is, in fact, a very, very, common tactic among anti-Israel groups, and it’s common because it is very effective. People don’t like white colonialist invaders very much, and because it is a familiar narrative, it is easy to impose over the not-very-well-known-or-understood history of the Middle East.