As we know all too well, anarchist solidarity with the Palestinian resistance is complicated and by no means easy - especially given the increasing hegemony of authoritarian forces (partially due to Israel's own actions to bolster these as a way to undermine the leftist resistance). We too, are worried about this, and are especially concerned with the increasing support for the Iranian regime. A critique of Hamas from a revolutionary anarcho-communist position is crucial. But it cannot come before a recognition of the fact that the Palestinians are a colonised people and their fight for self-determination must be supported.
]]>Large-scale demonstrations erupted in multiple occupied cities and settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories on March 16, calling for the imposition of compulsory military service on the Haredim, a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance, and calls for the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the formation of a new government.
]]>We’re working on documenting and debunking claims made by the Israeli regime during its most recent — and unprecedented — genocidal campaign in Gaza since 7 Oct, 2023. The Israeli settler-colony continues to spread disinformation to manufacture consent for ethnic cleansing and land theft, as it has since the Nakba. Our aim is to centralise this information.
]]>Acting as a ‘subcontractor for the occupation’ (143), [Dana] El Kurd argues, the [Palestinian Authority] was capable of repressing resistance with much more effectiveness than the Israeli occupation itself. The fact that it is conceived of as an indigenous ruler, a semi-sovereign, rather than an occupying state, gave the PA carte blanche to violate civil and human rights and evade international accountability. More significantly, its limited yet strategic legitimacy as an indigenous ruler made the PA more capable of garnering domestic support for its authoritarian measures, be this violent repression or clientelist cooptation. Moreover, the contentions around these measures have polarised Palestinian civil society, complicating the conditions for collective action through civil society organisations and grassroots activism. As such, not only did the PA rule extend the conditions of occupation, but it also subtracted from resistance to this condition.
]]>the erosion of distinctions between civilian and soldier and security and military ensures that plenty of non-soldiers will work on military bases and in combat zones, including employees of US defense contractors (which israel is obliged to spend its US aid money on)
meanwhile, within the occupied west bank and jerusalem—and now quite possibly inside gaza or "israel" itself—private contractors are assigned all kinds of security and counterinsurgency duties with very little oversight, sometimes embedded with regular army troops
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