Democratic socialist politicians like Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib are right about the violence in Israel and Palestine: we should both be mourning civilian deaths and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.
Just look further down in this thread. You can see one person justifying Hamas and saying “slave rebellions require the wanton killing of their masters” and another justifying Israel’s actions by conflating all of Palestine with Hamas.
It’s the rare case where there are actually a nontrivial group of people taking what would be otherwise a strawman position. And that makes it incredibly difficult for us to discuss this like adults. This conflict is the perfect storm of centuries of geopolitics, anti semitism, anti Muslim sentiment, and nationalism.
The only good people here are the innocent civilians, and they’re the ones being brutally murdered and bombed and taken hostage.
Just look further down in this thread. You can see one person justifying Hamas and saying “slave rebellions require the wanton killing of their masters” and another justifying Israel’s actions by conflating all of Palestine with Hamas.
It’s the rare case where there are actually a nontrivial group of people taking what would be otherwise a strawman position. And that makes it incredibly difficult for us to discuss this like adults. This conflict is the perfect storm of centuries of geopolitics, anti semitism, anti Muslim sentiment, and nationalism.
The only good people here are the innocent civilians, and they’re the ones being brutally murdered and bombed and taken hostage.