May 15th, 2018, referred to as Nakba Day by the Palestinian people, marked the 70th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homeland by what would become the State of Israel. In demonstration against Israel’s ongoing theft of land and systematic genocide of the Palestinian people, the Great March of Return that began on March 30th served as a testament to the native Palestinian peoples’ striving for a future without occupation, a future in which they can determine their own destiny. Israel responded by gunning down hundreds of demonstrators.
This crackdown on the Great March of Return generated international protest, most notably from the football star, Lionel Messi, who refused to compete in an exhibition match with Israel set to take place in a stadium that was built on top of a demolished Palestinian village. However, the violence of Israel was also met with overwhelming support from the United States. On May 14th, as children were being slaughtered by the Israeli state, the United States initiated the move of its embassy to Jerusalem, bringing to fruition the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which recognized the ancient city as the State of Israel’s capital and set aside funds for the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Palestine Solidarity Movement: Pitfalls and Potential
In light of the United States’ key role in support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Palestine solidarity movement in America has immense potential. Its young organizers possess the determination needed to wage a struggle against the causes of war and poverty, and the moral courage to stand with the world’s oppressed and exploited masses.
However, the movement all too often has divorced itself from the global struggle for peace and, to its own detriment, has yet to confront Zionism for its pivotal role in securing the interests of U.S. imperialism beyond Palestine. We observed this when the non-profit driven sector of the Palestine solidarity movement aligned with the interests of Israel and threw its support behind Western intervention to overthrow the Syrian government. This came at a moment when the United States was threatening to implement a no-fly zoneover Syria, which aimed to provoke war with Russia and had the potential to result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Ending the occupation is often reduced to a question of national liberation. However, this conception of Palestine as an issue separate from the need for a world movement for peace fails to confront the foundations of Israel and its role in imperialism. Thus, it does not have the capacity to truly free Palestine and humanity as a whole, both of which are threatened daily with extinction by the American war machine.
The creation of Israel was not simply an effort to subordinate Arabs to Jews in Palestine, but, most importantly, it was a strategic move of Western imperialism against the civilizations of Pan-Africa and Pan-Asia. Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, states clearly in his 1896 pamphlet, “The Jewish State”:
Supposing His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake to regulate the whole finances of Turkey. We should there form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilisation as opposed to barbarism. We should, as a neutral State, remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.
Herzl even accepted a British government proposal to settle Jews in Uganda in 1903, which was one of a number of locations—along with North Africa and Angola—that the World Zionist Organization considered for a Jewish state. After Israel was formed in Palestine, it served as “the northern flank against African liberation movements, and as a base against Soviet support to these struggles.”
Zionism serves the ruling class’ interest in partitioning the continents of Africa and Asia for the exploitation of their people and theft of their resources. For 70 years Israel has been the biggest purveyor of war and chaos in what colonizers termed as the “Middle East.”
Although ambitious campaigns have recently been launched in America in the name of Black and Palestinian solidarity, none have unveiled the true nature of the State of Israel and Palestine’s connection with the struggle of oppressed people worldwide. For this young movement to advance to a stage where it can truly threaten Israel’s foundation, it must understand Zionism for what it is—an attack on the unity of the civilizations of Asia and Africa in the interests of capitalist gain.
Operating from within the center of the global war machine, the Palestine solidarity movement in America must build principled unity with Black America and the immigrant and white working class in order to expose the lies of imperialist propaganda. By building a united front that recognizes the centrality of ideological struggle on the question of war and peace inside and outside of Palestine, the Palestine solidarity movement in America will develop a greater understanding of the world in order to change it.
Ideological Clarity in the Anti-Imperialist Struggle for Peace
Political education is central in our struggle for freedom. George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), highlighted the importance of raising the Arab world’s consciousness in order to wage a united struggle against Zionism. The PFLP, a Marxist-Leninist organization, was founded in 1967 in the wake of the Six-Day War in which Israel captured the West Bank in Palestine, the Golan Heights in Syria, and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
The PFLP stands today as the most ideologically clear organization in the Palestinian liberation movement. This clarity is exemplified in its rejection of the concessions made by the Arab misleadership class, which has supported so-called “peace” agreements with Israel. These agreements have allowed the forces of occupation to extend deeper into Palestine and diminished the chances of Palestinian liberation.
In his 2000 article, “Palestine Between Dreams and Reality,” Habash identified the partitioning of Asia and Africa as the driving motive behind the creation of Israel: “A Zionist state would serve colonial interests by acting as a wall dividing the Arab East on the Asian continent from the Arab west in Africa, and as a police station securing the passage to India, the pearl in the British crown.”
The PFLP’s historical materialist analysis of Israel identifies the partitioning of the Arab world as a key maneuver in the larger imperialist division scheme of Asian and African civilizations. This method of analysis also allows the organization to deliver a critique of those who obscure the reality of class contradictions within Palestine and the complicity of Palestinians who sell out their own people to Zionism. Habash and the PFLP have understood that the enemies of the people are not defined by color or nationality, but, rather, by where they stand in relation to imperialism.
Imperialism cannot be understood today without reference to what Ghanaian revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah called neo-colonialism, or imperialism’s desperate effort to “export the social conflicts of capitalist countries” to the formerly colonized world, which is now symbolically free but enslaved in reality. Neo-colonialism trades direct domination for an illusion of sovereignty while maintaining economic dominance over the world’s majority. This last and most dangerous stage of imperialism manifests itself in the form of constant warfare which aims to partition “former” colonies in order to make them subservient to the Western world. These wars have the grave potential to escalate into catastrophic war between nuclear powers.
Building on Lenin’s analysis of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism characterized by war, economic depression, and the formation of a rich oligarchy that exerts its dominance over the economies of the non-Western world, Nkrumah traces the root of neo-colonialism to the partitioning of Asia and Africa into small states entirely dependent on the capital and resources of neo-colonial economies.
By keeping the majority of humanity partitioned into superficially independent states, European and American imperialists are able to extract surplus profits from the working people of Asia and Africa. To ideologically fortify this imperial project after the second World War, this stolen value has been used to buy off various pockets of the working class in the form of the welfare state. While these workers are themselves dominated by capitalists, they become more likely to strike a compromise with the bosses when bribed with the fruits of imperialist profits.
Israel is a Neo-Colonial Force Inside and Outside Palestine
By understanding Lenin’s concept of stages of capitalism, we can trace capitalism’s transformation into imperialism and imperialism’s transition to neo-colonialism as its last and most insidious stage. Created at the demise of the colonial era, Israel—itself a creation of the colonial powers—was able to leech off the legacy of colonialism and develop into a neo-colonial force in its own right.
Since its formation, Israel has taken up the task of dividing Western Asia and Northern Africa by fueling wars within the region in order to put more money into the pockets of imperialists. After Britain’s massive post-World War II debt and defeat by the Indian independence movement in 1947, the State of Israel was founded the following year in 1948. This was an attempt by the ruling class to re-consolidate colonial power after a devastating loss in India, Britain’s most prized possession. The 1949 Armistice Agreement and the Tripartite Declaration of 1950 gave the West Bank and Gaza to the British-aligned Egyptian and Jordanian governments, and allowed Palestine’s natural resources to flow freely into the hands of Israel and Europe.
Israel’s footprints of terror can be seen all over Africa and Asia. In North Africa, Israel played a key role in partitioning Sudan and encouraging Christians and Muslims to murder each other while Israeli firms smuggled gold and uranium to the occupied territories. This adds to Israel’s ongoing robbery in Africa, which was also carried out in the diamond mines of the Congo and Angola.
In addition, Israel fuels wars throughout Western Asia and Northern Africa, and pushes the world toward a nuclear war by threatening to overthrow the government of Iran. The divide and conquer strategy of Israel is evident in its alliance with Saudi Arabia and wars against Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Lebanon. All of these actions highlight Israel’s role as a weapon of neo-colonialism, the last stage of imperialism.
George Habash stated that the true enemy of the Palestinians is not just the State of Israel, but American imperialism, whose interests are protected by Zionism. Israel’s development into a neo-colonial apparatus was exemplified in 1993 by the signing of the Oslo Accords, which created the Palestinian Authority, a crypto-Zionist front—with an Arab face—whose purpose is to carry out the work of Israel. The Oslo Accords were signed two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the biggest supporter of the Palestinian liberation movement and, in Nkrumah’s words, the force that made it impossible for the imperialists to “enforce the full rigour of the neo-colonialist system.”
Just like neo-colonialism strengthens its ideological counterrevolution by propping up Black leaders in Africa and the United States, Israel does the same with Arab figureheads in Palestine and the Palestine solidarity movement, a move that has diminished the cohesion of the resistance among the representation-intoxicated American left. Israel directly profits from a Palestinian labor force that is maintained with the help of the Arab misleadership class. This use of identity politics allows Israel to disguise its neocolonial violence with the illusion of Arab sovereignty.
Identifying the Enemy: The Struggle for Unity Across the Color Line & the Collapse of Empire
In the United States today, we see the effects of neo-colonialism in the exploitation of immigrants as a cheap labor force. Immigrant labor is converted into profits and used to further gentrify and police poor and historically working class Black communities, such as those of North and West Philadelphia.
The use of one group of oppressed people as a weapon against another is a strategy that is implemented throughout neo-colonial states and is also used to burn bridges between the multi-racial working class in America. In Palestine, this strategy can be seen in Israel’s policy of recruiting Ethiopian migrants to fuel the occupation by joining the Israel Defense Forces.
Many immigrants flee countries whose politics and economy have been all but destroyed by imperialism and come to the United States in search of a more stable living situation. However, the anti-blackness indoctrinated into immigrants by ruling class propaganda prevents them from seeing their connection with the Black working class, the descendants of enslaved Africans whom W.E.B. Du Bois called the “foundation stone” of global capitalism. This keeps the masses fighting amongst each other and lets the capitalists who exploit both groups off the hook. Thus, the struggle of uniting across the color line to defeat racism becomes one with the struggle to defeat imperialism, whose effects are visible not only in Africa and Asia, but also in the streets of America’s collapsing Empire.
In his forthcoming introduction to the French translation of Huey P. Newton’s Revolutionary Suicide, Ahmad Sa’adat, the incarcerated Secretary General of the PFLP, writes:
Today, when we look at the Black Liberation movement or the Indigenous and Native struggle in the United States and Canada, we are talking about the same camp of enemy that we confront in occupied Palestine. The bullets that assassinated Malcolm X or Fred Hampton could have been used to kill Ghassan Kanafani or Khaled Nazzal or Mahmoud Hamshari, and today we see the same tear gas and bullets shipped around the world for use against the people.
This is not just a metaphor, but a testament to the material connection between Israel and imperialism. The wealth of the imperial powers is built on the starvation of the darker peoples of the world, including the dark poor and working class in the United States. It is no coincidence that within the same time frame of Operation Cast Lead and Operation Protective Edge, during which Israel used the world’s most advanced military weapons to murder Palestinians by the thousands, the rate of child hunger in Black North Philadelphia rose by over 300 percent. What ties humanity together in a single garment of destiny is the responsibility we have to defeat our common enemy in the struggle to free humanity as a whole.
Neo-colonialism’s search for new, more insidious ways to exploit indicates a dying system. In his 1947 book The World and Africa, Du Bois predicted that the collapse of European civilization would create the conditions for the freedom of humanity. With the chaos among European nations today, exemplified by Britain’s exit from the European Union, and the crisis facing United States imperialism under Trump, Europe’s collapse and the rise of humanity is closer than ever.
A Vision Forward: The World and Palestine, Palestine and the World
The paramount task of the Palestine solidarity movement is to unite the people under the common objective of defeating imperialism to attain world peace, which is characterized not by the absence of tension, but the presence of justice. It is about identifying the main cause of human suffering so that we can know the correct path of struggle, rather than attacking a symptom of the system at the cost of coming to a correct analysis of its root cause.
In prioritizing political education, it is also crucial to understand the purpose of miseducation: to make the people believe that their enemies are their friends, and their friends are their enemies. To accurately grasp the stage of history we are situated in today is to know our enemies and their weak points, and to know who our allies are so that we can forge a clear path forward in our struggle against the ruling class.
Ignoring Israel’s direct role in carrying out the work of the U.S. war machine will come at the cost of separating the Palestine solidarity movement from its connection with the complete liberation of humanity from imperialism. Rather than a surface-level solidarity based on an oppressed identity, we must build a unity of humankind against the forces of imperialism that seek to destroy the world’s civilizations for wealth and power.
Immigrants in the United States who are taught to abandon their own anti-colonial struggles for assimilation into the white world must reject the illusion of the “American Dream” and side with Black America against the capitalists who exploit them both. By doing so, they will break the psychological chains of white supremacy and overturn the system that creates the ideological conditions for Israeli neo-colonialism to thrive in America and Palestine. To do this, we cannot see Palestine as an issue unto itself. We must strive to develop a dialectical understanding of Palestine and the world, and the world and Palestine.
We can begin by anchoring ourselves in the tradition of resistance put forth by George Habash, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Kwame Nkrumah, who all asserted that the future of humanity ultimately rests in the hands of the darker peoples of the world. It is a tradition that exposes the propaganda of the ruling class that teaches young people they are powerless against the war-machine, and that their only “way out” is to exploit their brothers and sisters in the name of the “American Dream” rather than struggle to change society. It is the cure for the pessimism that permeates Western culture and poisons movements fighting to build a vision for humanity to overcome the “triple evils” of poverty, racism, and war. This heroic spirit of the Palestinian and Black Radical Traditions lives on in everyday people, and we struggle to keep it alive by following their example.
By embracing our shared destiny with Black America and those living under the degradation of imperialism worldwide, the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States will say that a free Palestine is possible, and that with struggle, we can restore humanity back to its rightful place, where the civilizations of the world are once again united and no longer living under the threat of invasion, partitioning, and mass exploitation.
This tradition instills within our souls a great sense of humility and revolutionary sacrifice that is born out of an unconditional love for the people—a love that understands why people are the way they are but also realizes the potential of who they can become. We must strive to lead humanity out of the darkness of imperialism until not one child remains hungry, until not one child has to endure another war, whether that child be in North Philadelphia or Palestine.
This article originally appeared on Orchestrated Pulse.
Brandon Do is an organizer in Temple Students for Justice in Palestine and The Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation based in North Philadelphia. He can be reached at: email@example.com.
Tarehe 15 Mei 2018 ni siku ya Nakba, siku ya ukombozi wa kikabila dhidi ya Wapalestina zaidi ya 700,000 ambao waliuawa katika vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe. Kwa kuonesha dhidi ya kuiba ardhi kwa Israel na mauaji ya kimbari ya watu wa Palestina, Machi Kubwa ya Kurudi ambayo ilianza Machi 30 ilitumika kama ushahidi kwa watu wa asili wa Palestina wanaojitahidi kwa siku zijazo bila uvamizi, siku zijazo ambazo wanaweza kuamua hatima yao wenyewe. Israeli ilijibu kwa kuwaua mamia ya waandamanaji. Maandamano hayo ya Maandamano ya Kurudi kwa Waislamu yalisababisha maandamano ya kimataifa, hasa kutoka kwa nyota wa mpira wa miguu Lionel Messi, ambaye alikataa kushiriki katika mechi ya maonyesho na Israel iliyopangwa kufanyika katika uwanja uliojengwa juu ya kijiji cha Wapalestina kilichobomolewa. Hata hivyo, jeuri ya Israeli pia ilikutana na msaada mkubwa kutoka Marekani. Mnamo Mei 14, wakati watoto walipokuwa wakichinjwa na serikali ya Israeli, Marekani ilianzisha kuhamisha ubalozi wake kwenda Jerusalem, ikitoa Sheria ya Ubalozi wa Jerusalem ya 1995, ambayo ilitambua mji wa kale kama mji mkuu wa Jimbo la Israel na kuweka fedha kwa ajili ya kuhamisha ubalozi wa Marekani kutoka Tel Aviv hadi Jerusalem. "Kutokana na jukumu muhimu la Marekani katika kuunga mkono uvamizi wa Israeli wa Palestina, harakati ya mshikamano wa Palestina nchini Marekani ina uwezo mkubwa. """ "Wanajeshi wake vijana wana azimio la kupigana na sababu za vita na umaskini, na ujasiri wa kiadili wa kusimama pamoja na watu walioonewa na kutumiwa vibaya duniani kote.""" Hata hivyo, harakati hiyo mara nyingi imejitenga na mapambano ya kimataifa ya amani na, kwa hasara yake mwenyewe, bado haijawahi kukabiliana na Uyahudi kwa jukumu lake muhimu katika kuhakikisha maslahi ya utawala wa Marekani nje ya Palestina. "Tuliona hili wakati sekta isiyo ya faida ya harakati ya mshikamano wa Palestina ilipojiunga na maslahi ya Israeli na kutoa msaada wake kwa uingiliaji wa Magharibi kuangusha serikali ya Syria. """ "Hii ilitokea wakati Marekani ilipokuwa ikitisha kutekeleza ""maeneo yasiyo na ndege"" juu ya Syria, ambayo ililenga kusababisha vita na Urusi na ilikuwa na uwezekano wa kusababisha janga la nyuklia." Mara nyingi kumaliza uvamizi hupunguzwa kuwa suala la ukombozi wa kitaifa. Hata hivyo, dhana hii ya Palestina kama suala tofauti na haja ya harakati ya dunia kwa ajili ya amani inashindwa kukabiliana na misingi ya Israeli na jukumu lake katika ushirika. Kwa hivyo, haina uwezo wa kuikomboa kweli Palestina na ubinadamu kwa ujumla, ambayo yote mawili yanatishiwa kila siku na kutoweka na mashine ya vita ya Amerika. Kuanzishwa kwa Israeli hakukuwa tu juhudi ya kuwashirikisha Waarabu kwa Wayahudi huko Palestina, lakini, muhimu zaidi, ilikuwa hatua ya kimkakati ya utawala wa utawala wa Ulaya dhidi ya ustaarabu wa Afrika na Asia. "Theodor Herzl, mwanzilishi wa Uislamu wa Kiyahudi, aliandika katika kitabu chake cha 1896 ""The Jewish State"" kwamba ""Ikiwa Mfalme wa Uturuki angetupa Palestina, tungekuwa na jukumu la kudhibiti fedha za Uturuki.""" Tunapaswa kuwa sehemu ya ngome ya Ulaya dhidi ya Asia, ngome ya ustaarabu kinyume na ukatili. Kama nchi isiyo na upande wowote, tunapaswa kuendelea kuwasiliana na Ulaya yote, ambayo inapaswa kuhakikisha kuwepo kwetu. Herzl hata alikubali pendekezo la serikali ya Uingereza la kuhamisha Wayahudi Uganda mwaka 1903, ambayo ilikuwa moja ya maeneo kadhaa - pamoja na Afrika Kaskazini na Angola - ambayo Shirika la Sayuni Ulimwenguni lilizingatia kuwa nchi ya Kiyahudi. Baada ya Israeli kuanzishwa katika Palestina, ilitumika kama "upande wa kaskazini dhidi ya harakati za ukombozi za Afrika, na kama msingi dhidi ya msaada wa Sovieti kwa mapambano haya."Usioni unatumikia maslahi ya darasa linalotawala katika kugawanya mabara ya Afrika na Asia kwa ajili ya unyonyaji wa watu wao na wizi wa rasilimali zao. "Kwa miaka 70, Israeli imekuwa ni mtoaji mkubwa wa vita na machafuko katika kile ambacho wakoloni walikiita ""Mashariki ya Kati"" Ingawa kampeni kubwa zimezinduliwa hivi karibuni nchini Marekani kwa jina la mshikamano wa weusi na Wapalestina, hakuna hata mmoja aliyefunua asili halisi ya uhusiano wa Jimbo la Israeli na Palestina na mapambano ya watu waliokandamizwa ulimwenguni." Ili harakati hii ya vijana ifikie hatua ambayo inaweza kutishia msingi wa Israeli, lazima ielewe Usioni kwa kile ambacho ni - shambulio dhidi ya umoja wa ustaarabu wa Asia na Afrika kwa maslahi ya faida ya ubepari. "Kutoka ndani ya kituo cha mashine ya vita ya kimataifa, harakati ya mshikamano wa Palestina nchini Marekani lazima ijenge umoja wa kanuni na Amerika nyeusi na wahamiaji na wazungu wa kazi ili kufunua uongo wa propaganda ya utawala wa kifalme. """ Kwa kujenga pande moja inayotambua umuhimu wa mapambano ya kiitikadi juu ya suala la vita na amani ndani na nje ya Palestina, harakati ya mshikamano wa Palestina nchini Marekani itatengeneza uelewa mkubwa wa ulimwengu ili kuubadilisha. Uwazi wa Kisaikolojia katika Mapambano ya Kupinga Milki kwa Amani Elimu ya kisiasa ni muhimu katika mapambano yetu ya uhuru. George Habash, mwanzilishi wa Chama cha Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), alisisitiza umuhimu wa kuongeza ufahamu wa ulimwengu wa Kiarabu ili kuendesha mapambano ya umoja dhidi ya Uyahudi. PFLP ni chama cha Marxist-Leninist kilichoanzishwa mwaka 1967 baada ya vita vya siku sita, ambapo Israel ilishinda eneo la West Bank, Golan Heights, na Sinai Peninsula. PFLP leo ni shirika lililo wazi zaidi kiitikadi katika harakati ya ukombozi wa Palestina. Uwazi huu unaonyeshwa katika kukataa kwake makubaliano yaliyotolewa na darasa la uongozi wa uongo wa Kiarabu, ambao umeunga mkono makubaliano ya "amani" na Israeli. Mikataba hiyo imewaruhusu vikosi vya uvamizi kupanuka zaidi ndani ya Palestina na kupunguza nafasi za ukombozi wa Palestina. "Katika makala yake ya mwaka 2000, ""Palestine Between Dreams and Reality,"" Habash alitaja kugawanyika kwa Asia na Afrika kama sababu ya kuanzishwa kwa Israeli: ""Jimbo la Kiyahudi lingetumikia maslahi ya kikoloni kwa kutenda kama ukuta unaotenganisha Mashariki ya Kiarabu katika bara la Asia na Magharibi ya Kiarabu katika Afrika, na kama kituo cha polisi kinachohakikisha njia ya kwenda India, lulu ya taji la Uingereza.""" Njia hii ya uchambuzi pia inaruhusu shirika kutoa ukosoaji wa wale ambao huficha ukweli wa migogoro ya darasa ndani ya Palestina na ushirikiano wa Wapalestina ambao wanauza watu wao wenyewe kwa Uyahudi. "Habash na PFLP wameelewa kuwa ""adui wa watu hawafafanuliwi kwa rangi au utaifa, bali kwa mahali walipo kuhusiana na utawala wa kifalme.""" "Kama ilivyoelezwa hapo juu, ""Uvamizi hauwezi kueleweka leo bila kurejelea kile ambacho mwamvuli wa Ghana Kwame Nkrumah aliita ukoloni mpya, au juhudi za kukata tamaa za ukoloni ""kuuza migogoro ya kijamii ya nchi za ubepari"" kwa ulimwengu uliokuwa ukoloni, ambao sasa ni huru kimapenzi lakini ni watumwa kwa kweli." Ukoloni mpya unabadilisha utawala wa moja kwa moja kwa udanganyifu wa enzi kuu wakati wa kudumisha utawala wa kiuchumi juu ya wengi wa ulimwengu. Hatua hii ya mwisho na hatari zaidi ya utawala wa kifalme inaonekana katika aina ya vita vya daima, ambayo inakusudia kugawanya koloni za zamani ili kuzifanya ziwe chini ya ulimwengu wa Magharibi. Vita hivyo vina uwezekano mkubwa wa kuenea na kuwa vita vya msiba kati ya mataifa yenye silaha za nyuklia. Kwa kuzingatia uchambuzi wa Lenin wa utawala wa kifalme kama hatua ya juu ya utawala wa kifalme, unaojulikana kwa vita, kushuka kwa uchumi, na kuundwa kwa oligarchy tajiri ambayo hutumia utawala wake juu ya uchumi wa ulimwengu usio wa Magharibi, Nkrumah anafuatilia mizizi ya ukoloni mpya kwa kugawanywa kwa Asia na Afrika katika mataifa madogo yanayohusiana kabisa na mtaji na rasilimali za uchumi wa ukoloni mpya. Kwa kuweka idadi kubwa ya wanadamu wakiwa wamegawanywa katika mataifa ya kujitegemea, wafalme wa Ulaya na Marekani wana uwezo wa kupata faida ya ziada kutoka kwa watu wanaofanya kazi wa Asia na Afrika. Ili kuimarisha mradi huu wa kifalme baada ya Vita Kuu ya Pili, thamani hii iliyoibiwa imetumiwa kununua mifuko mbalimbali ya wafanyakazi katika fomu ya serikali ya ustawi. Ingawa wafanyakazi hawa wenyewe wanatawaliwa na wakuu wa uchumi, wao huwa na uwezekano mkubwa wa kufanya makubaliano na mabosi wanapochukuliwa kwa faida za utawala wa kifalme. "Kama vile Lenin alivyosema, ""Kwa kuelewa dhana ya Lenin ya hatua za ubepari, tunaweza kufuatilia mabadiliko ya ubepari katika ushirikina na mabadiliko ya ushirikina katika ukoloni mpya kama hatua yake ya mwisho na ya hila zaidi.""" Iliundwa wakati wa kuanguka kwa enzi ya kikoloni, Israeli - yenyewe ni uumbaji wa nguvu za kikoloni - iliweza kuondoa urithi wa ukoloni na kuendeleza kuwa nguvu ya ukoloni mpya kwa haki yake mwenyewe. Tangu kuanzishwa kwake, Israel imechukua jukumu la kugawanya Asia Magharibi na Afrika Kaskazini kwa kuchochea vita ndani ya mkoa ili kuweka pesa zaidi katika mifuko ya wafalme. Baada ya Uingereza kuanguka baada ya Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia na kushindwa na harakati ya uhuru wa India mwaka 1947, Jimbo la Israeli lilianzishwa mwaka uliofuata. Hii ilikuwa jaribio la madarasa ya kutawala kuimarisha tena nguvu ya kikoloni baada ya hasara kubwa nchini India, milki ya Uingereza yenye thamani zaidi. Mkataba wa Amani wa 1949 na Azimio la Tatu la 1950 lilitoa Ukingo wa Magharibi na Gaza kwa serikali za Misri na Jordan zilizounganishwa na Uingereza, na kuruhusu rasilimali za asili za Palestina kutiririka kwa uhuru mikononi mwa Israeli na Ulaya. Nyayo za Israeli za ugaidi zinaweza kuonekana kotekote Afrika na Asia. Katika Afrika Kaskazini, Israel ilicheza jukumu muhimu katika kugawanya Sudan na kuwahamasisha Wakristo na Waislamu kuua kila mmoja wakati makampuni ya Israeli yalipuuza dhahabu na urani kwenye maeneo yaliyokaliwa. Hii inaongezea wizi unaoendelea wa Israeli barani Afrika, ambao pia ulifanywa katika migodi ya almasi ya Kongo na Angola. "Aidha, Israel inachochea vita kote Asia Magharibi na Afrika Kaskazini, na kushinikiza ulimwengu kuelekea vita vya nyuklia kwa kutisha kuangusha serikali ya Iran.""" Mkakati wa Israeli wa kugawanya na kutawala unaonekana wazi katika muungano wake na Saudi Arabia na vita dhidi ya Syria, Libya, Iraq, na Lebanon. Vitendo hivi vyote vinaangazia jukumu la Israeli kama silaha ya ukoloni mpya, hatua ya mwisho ya ubeberu. "Habash alisema kuwa ""adui wa kweli wa Wapalestina si tu Jimbo la Israeli, lakini pia ni utawala wa Marekani, ambao maslahi yake yanalindwa na Usiani.""" Israel ilifanyizwa kuwa mfumo wa ukoloni mpya mwaka 1993 na mkataba wa Oslo, ambao ulifanyiza mamlaka ya Palestina, ambayo ni shirikisho la kisioni lenye sura ya Kiarabu, na kusudi lake ni kutekeleza kazi ya Israeli. Mkataba wa Oslo ulisainiwa miaka miwili baada ya kuanguka kwa Muungano wa Sovieti, msaidizi mkubwa wa harakati ya ukombozi wa Palestina na, kwa maneno ya Nkrumah, nguvu ambayo ilifanya iwe vigumu kwa wafalme "kutekeleza ukali kamili wa mfumo wa ukoloni mpya." Israel inapata faida moja kwa moja kutoka kwa nguvu ya kazi ya Wapalestina ambayo huhifadhiwa kwa msaada wa darasa la uongozi wa uongozi wa Kiarabu. Matumizi haya ya siasa za utambulisho huruhusu Israeli kuficha vurugu zake za ukoloni mpya kwa udanganyifu wa uhuru wa Kiarabu. "Kutambua Adui: Mapambano ya Umoja Zaidi ya Mstari wa Rangi na Kuanguka kwa Milki: ""Katika Marekani leo, tunaona athari za ukoloni mpya katika unyonyaji wa wahamiaji kama nguvu ya kazi ya bei nafuu." Kazi ya wahamiaji ni kubadilishwa katika faida na kutumika kwa zaidi gentrification na polisi maskini na kihistoria kazi darasa Black jamii, kama vile wale wa Kaskazini na Magharibi Philadelphia. Kutumia kundi moja la watu waliodhulumiwa kama silaha dhidi ya kundi jingine ni mkakati unaotumiwa katika mataifa yote ya ukoloni mpya na pia hutumiwa kuharibu madaraja kati ya jamii ya wafanyakazi wa rangi mbalimbali nchini Marekani. Katika Palestina, mkakati huu unaweza kuonekana katika sera ya Israeli ya kuajiri wahamiaji wa Ethiopia ili kuchochea uvamizi kwa kujiunga na Jeshi la Ulinzi la Israeli. Wahamiaji wengi wanakimbia nchi ambazo siasa na uchumi wake umeharibiwa kabisa na utawala wa kifalme na kuja Marekani kutafuta hali ya kuishi thabiti zaidi. Hata hivyo, upinzani dhidi ya weusi uliowekwa ndani ya wahamiaji na propaganda ya madarasa ya utawala unawazuia kuona uhusiano wao na darasa la wafanyakazi weusi, wazao wa Waafrika waliotumwa ambao W.E.B. Du Bois aliita "jiwe la msingi" la ubepari wa kimataifa. Hii inaendelea na watu kupigana na kila mmoja na huwaacha wakuu wa uchumi ambao hutumia vikundi vyote viwili bila hatia. Kwa hivyo, mapambano ya kuungana katika mipaka ya rangi ili kushinda ubaguzi wa rangi inakuwa moja na mapambano ya kushinda ushirikina, ambao athari zake zinaonekana sio tu katika Afrika na Asia, lakini pia katika barabara za Milki ya Amerika inayoanguka. "Katika utangulizi wake wa tafsiri ya Kifaransa ya kitabu cha Huey P. Newton, ""Ujiuaji wa Mapinduzi,"" Ahmad Sadat, Katibu Mkuu wa PFLP, anaandika: ""Leo, tunapoangalia harakati za Uhuru wa Weusi au mapambano ya Wenyeji wa Asili na Wenyeji wa Asili nchini Marekani na Canada, tunazungumza juu ya kambi ileile ya adui ambayo tunakabiliwa nayo katika Palestina iliyokaliwa." """Mlipuko uliouawa Malcolm X au Fred Hampton ungeweza kutumika kuua Ghassan Kanafani au Khalid Nazzal au Mahmoud Hamshari, na leo tunaona gesi ya machozi na risasi sawa zinazosafirishwa ulimwenguni kote kwa matumizi dhidi ya watu." Hii si mfano tu, bali ni ushahidi wa uhusiano wa kimwili kati ya Israeli na utawala wa kifalme. Utajiri wa mataifa ya kifalme umejengwa juu ya njaa ya watu weusi duniani, ikiwa ni pamoja na maskini weusi na darasa la wafanyakazi nchini Marekani. "Hakuna shaka kwamba wakati huo huo wa ""Operation Cast Lead"" na ""Operation Protective Edge,"" ambapo Israel ilitumia silaha za kisasa zaidi duniani kuua maelfu ya Wapalestina, kiwango cha njaa ya watoto katika eneo la Black North Philadelphia kiliongezeka kwa zaidi ya asilimia 300." Kile kinachoshikilia wanadamu pamoja katika vazi moja la hatima ni jukumu ambalo tuna kushinda adui yetu ya kawaida katika mapambano ya kuwahamasisha wanadamu wote. Utafiti wa ukoloni mpya wa njia mpya, zenye hila zaidi za kutumia huonyesha mfumo unaokufa. Katika kitabu chake cha 1947 The World and Africa, Du Bois alitabiri kwamba kuanguka kwa ustaarabu wa Ulaya kungetokeza hali za uhuru wa wanadamu. "Kwa machafuko kati ya mataifa ya Ulaya leo, kama ilivyoonyeshwa na kuondoka kwa Uingereza kutoka Umoja wa Ulaya, na mgogoro unaokabiliwa na utawala wa Trump, kuanguka kwa Ulaya na kuongezeka kwa ubinadamu ni karibu zaidi kuliko wakati mwingine wowote. """ """Utazamaji wa mbele: Ulimwengu na Palestina, Palestina na Ulimwengu: Kazi kuu ya harakati ya mshikamano wa Palestina ni kuunganisha watu chini ya lengo la kawaida la kushinda ushirikina ili kufikia amani ya ulimwengu, ambayo haijulikani na kutokuwa na mvutano, lakini uwepo wa haki." Ni kuhusu kutambua sababu kuu ya mateso ya binadamu ili tuweze kujua njia sahihi ya mapambano, badala ya kushambulia dalili ya mfumo kwa gharama ya kuja kwa uchambuzi sahihi wa sababu yake ya msingi. "Kulinganisha elimu ya kisiasa na elimu ya kisiasa, ni muhimu pia kuelewa kusudi la elimu isiyo sahihi: kuwafanya watu waamini kwamba maadui wao ni marafiki wao, na marafiki wao ni maadui wao. """ "Kufahamu kwa usahihi hatua ya historia tunayoiweka leo ni kujua maadui wetu na sehemu zao dhaifu, na kujua ni nani washirika wetu ili tuweze kuunda njia wazi mbele katika mapambano yetu dhidi ya darasa linalotawala. """ "Kupuuza jukumu la moja kwa moja la Israeli katika kutekeleza kazi ya mashine ya vita ya Marekani kutakuja kwa gharama ya kutenganisha harakati ya mshikamano wa Palestina na uhusiano wake na ukombozi kamili wa ubinadamu kutoka kwa utawala wa ubaguzi wa rangi.""" Badala ya mshikamano wa uso unaotegemea utambulisho wa watu waliokandamizwa, ni lazima tujenge umoja wa binadamu dhidi ya nguvu za ubeberu ambazo zinatafuta kuharibu ustaarabu wa ulimwengu kwa utajiri na nguvu. Wahamiaji nchini Marekani ambao wanafundishwa kuacha mapambano yao ya kupambana na ukoloni ili kuingizwa katika ulimwengu mweupe lazima wakatae udanganyifu wa 'Ndoto ya Marekani' na kuunga mkono Amerika ya Weusi dhidi ya wakuu wa uchumi ambao wanawatumia wote wawili. Kwa kufanya hivyo, watavunja minyororo ya kisaikolojia ya utawala wa wazungu na kuangusha mfumo ambao huunda hali za kiitikadi kwa ukoloni mpya wa Israeli kusitawi nchini Marekani na Palestina. Ili kufanya hivyo, hatuwezi kuona Palestina kama suala lenyewe. Ni lazima tujitahidi kuendeleza uelewa wa dialectical wa Palestina na ulimwengu, na ulimwengu na Palestina. "Tunaweza kuanza kwa kujiweka katika utamaduni wa upinzani uliowekwa na George Habash, W.E.B. "" (The History of Resistance, p. "Wanafunzi kama Du Bois na Kwame Nkrumah walidai kuwa ""baada ya ubinadamu mwishowe iko mikononi mwa watu wenye giza zaidi duniani.""" "Hiyo ni utamaduni ambao unafunua propaganda ya tabaka linalotawala ambalo linawafundisha vijana kuwa hawana nguvu dhidi ya mashine ya vita, na kwamba ""njia yao pekee ya kutoka"" ni kutumia ndugu na dada zao kwa jina la ""Ndoto ya Amerika"" badala ya kupigana kubadilisha jamii." Ni dawa ya kutokuwa na matumaini ambayo huenea katika utamaduni wa Magharibi na huathiri harakati zinazopigana kujenga maono kwa ubinadamu kushinda "maovu matatu" ya umaskini, ubaguzi wa rangi, na vita. Roho hii ya mashujaa ya mapokeo ya Wapalestina na weusi ya Radical inaishi katika watu wa kila siku, na tunapambana kuifanya iwe hai kwa kufuata mfano wao. Kwa kukumbatia hatima yetu ya pamoja na Wamarekani weusi na wale wanaoishi chini ya uharibifu wa utawala wa kifalme ulimwenguni, harakati ya mshikamano wa Palestina nchini Marekani itasema kwamba Palestina huru inawezekana, na kwamba kwa mapambano, tunaweza kurudisha ubinadamu mahali pake pa haki, ambapo ustaarabu wa ulimwengu umefungwa tena na haupo tena chini ya tishio la uvamizi, mgawanyiko na unyonyaji wa wingi. Utamaduni huu huingiza ndani ya roho zetu hisia kubwa ya unyenyekevu na dhabihu ya mapinduzi ambayo huzaliwa kutoka kwa upendo usio na masharti kwa watu - upendo ambao unaelewa kwa nini watu ni jinsi walivyo lakini pia unatambua uwezo wa kile wanaweza kuwa. """Ni lazima tujitahidi kuongoza ubinadamu kutoka katika giza la utawala wa kifalme mpaka hakuna mtoto yeyote atakayebaki na njaa, mpaka hakuna mtoto yeyote atakayebaki na vita, iwe ni mtoto wa kaskazini mwa Philadelphia au Palestina." Makala hii awali alionekana juu ya Orchestrated Pulse. Brandon Do ni mratibu katika Temple Wanafunzi kwa Haki katika Palestina na Jumamosi Free School kwa Falsafa na Black Ukombozi makao yake makuu katika Kaskazini Philadelphia. Anaweza kupatikana kwenye: email@example.com.