“I share Coates’ empathy for Palestinians and their struggle. A sober analysis of the injustices they face daily could help motivate us to create a future where both Israelis and Palestinians might experience liberation.“

My problem with liberal Zionism in a nutshell, and exactly why Coates is right. Palestinians are always just a sad afterthought, maybe not dehumanized in the traditional sense but dehumanized nonetheless. The problem with racism, dispossession, colonialism isn’t that history is full of violent and bloody oppressions… it’s that the resources are *continously* divided using these same logic and tactics today. Netanyahu is openly mulling dispossessing northern Gazans of their land as we speak. Tell me how exactly that’s going to help the Mizrahim of the 1910s and 20s?

You’re not going to honor the victims of a previous genocide by committing a new one in their name.