Intressant artikel till frågan om Israels existens vs anti-sionismen.
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Counterpunch December 12, 2019
Renouncing Israel on Principle
by Steven Salaita
When anti-Zionists discuss the
Middle East, the topic of Israel’s existence rarely arises. It’s
almost exclusively a pro-Israel talking point. We’re focused on
national liberation, on surviving repression, on strategies of
resistance, on recovering subjugated histories, on the complex (and
sometimes touchy) relationships among an Indigenous population
disaggregated by decades of aggression. That a colonial state—or any
state, really—possesses no ontological rights is an unspoken
assumption.
“Do you recognize Israel’s right to exist?” pretends to honor the downtrodden, but it is an altogether different proposition, transforming sophisticated ideas of liberation into a crude test of political respectability. Prioritizing the state as worthy of relief, as something to which we automatically owe deference, subsumes life to the imperatives of capital.
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“Do you recognize Israel’s right to exist?” pretends to honor the downtrodden, but it is an altogether different proposition, transforming sophisticated ideas of liberation into a crude test of political respectability. Prioritizing the state as worthy of relief, as something to which we automatically owe deference, subsumes life to the imperatives of capital.
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