The genocide is still ongoing and many things are still developing in Palestine, but we are removing the limitation on only posting things related to the operation Flood of Al-Aqsa to this thread, you can now freely post over Lemmygrad again.
Please don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Due to popular demand, please keep all posts about the operation to this megathread, sitewide.
I thought the rhetoric in this was interesting:
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/09/1204639253/israel-gaza-hamas-us-citizens-killed
There’s all the passive voice and spin you’d expect, but they specifically quote:
That’s not something I’d expect to read in imperial core media.
There are a lot more westerners that support Palestinians than you’d expect tbh, even in media.
I’ve seen comments about there being no hope for the Western left because of the liberal shittakes on social media.
But PSL and the Stop Cop City movement leaders have fully made it known that they are in complete solidarity with Palestine. Anarchists are as well.
The seeds are here. Don’t be hasty to judge the communist movement in the US by shitty liberals and social democrats bandwagoning online.
even DSA is supporting Palestine in this conflict, like DSA national itself not just their international committee or radical local chapters.
I have said this before but for all the reactionary aspects of US society there is still an element there that is quite a bit more radical than we have here in Europe. This partly has to do with the brutal hyper-capitalism having created material conditions for the bottom of society that are relatively worse in the US than in Europe’s social democratic welfare states. There is an interesting contradiction in that the US simultaneously has some of the worst reactionary tendencies due to its settler colonial nature and history, as well as its role as the center of world imperialism, but also one of the populations that is potentially most easily radicalizable among the nations of the imperial core. In Europe the absence of a social base that is as rife for radicalization as the indigenous and black communities in the US, for which current material conditions and historical injustices align to produce a real revolutionary subject, and with European countries having much more homogenous populations there is much less potential for development of revolutionary consciousness. Notable exceptions do exist such as in Ireland or Serbia, in the case of the former due to their specific history of anti-imperialist struggle and for the latter their recent experiences being directly victimized by imperialist aggression, though unfortunately both of these countries are currently governed by neoliberal sellouts.