So heartening and indeed a significant and hopeful step forward! And as one of my longtime activist immigrant friend reflects:
Holy sh*t y'all.I never thought I would see this.Fareed Zakaria (who is as establishment a figure as you can find in US politics) just interviewed Israeli-American holocaust scholar Omer Bartov on CNN.Bartov proceeded to call current Zionism "militaristic, expansionist, violent, racist and genocidal" on a mainstream cable news channel.Do you know what a big deal this is? What a sea change this represents?NUMEROUS immigrants were incarcerated and deported for saying MUCH LESS in the past 2 years. People were fired for saying this. Students were expelled from universities and are still being punished for speaking out in a much milder manner.Israel's propaganda is absolutely collapsing.It took too long but I did not think I would live to see the day that these opinions would become normalized....Now how do we get our elected officials to follow through so we can STOP sending weapons to this out-of-control Apartheid state?
We continue to have so far to go. That said, this sign of a rupture with the justification for bombing the Palestinian people and beyond into oblivion and continuing to align with the psychopath Netanyahu is so overdue and so vitally needed. In addition, I need to acknowledge that Chris Hedges has also clearly written about "Israel's suicidal rupture with the US" — https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-suicidal-rupture-with-the. May it be so! Blessed be the truth-tellers!! — Molly
| Israeli-born genocide scholar Omer Bartov |
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