Zionism Is Bad Because Nationalism Is Bad But Not Palestinian Nationalism Because Reasons

By Ayama Dumfuq, campus Palestine activist

New York, February 27 – To avoid accusations that we anti-Zionists hold antisemitic views, we are forced to claim that we oppose the Jewish State in principle not because we want to deny Jews sovereignty, which sounds an awful lot like antisemitism, but because we oppose all ethnonationalism, which has led to so much suffering. Also, we support the ethnonationalist movement to establish a Palestinian state.

Calling for the destruction of Israel because of its policies runs into problems of inconsistency and hypocrisy: if such behavior delegitimizes a country, then where is the call to destroy numerous other bloodthirsty regimes around the world? Not that we Palestine activists care much about non-Palestine causes except insofar as we can hijack them, but sometimes we like to have a little bit of logic behind our slogans. Absent the rationale to end Israel because of its policies, we must fall back on a different principle, which of course poses a different inconsistency that we tend to ignore: we oppose nation-states constituted by a single ethnicity, not just Israel. We don’t single out Israel at all! OK so actually we do, because every Arab country defines itself as an Arab ethnostate, and the would-be state of Palestine does the same. But Palestine is different because reasons.

Apartheid Israel does not allow Palestinians to become citizens, but Palestine will not allow Jews to become citizens because that’s different. For the same reason, Jews are not allowed to worship at the spot they consider their holiest, because we Muslims revere it as our third-holiest, primarily because it was the Jewish holiest spot, you understand, in that we Muslims had to assert our supremacy and supplanting of Jews as God’s people by building our shrine on that site. We despise the religious supremacy that Zionism represents!

Also the genocide – who can forget the horrific genocide of Palestinians. Not like that fake genocide of which they accuse the poor Germans, for purposes of gaining the world’s sympathy to dispossess others in this land. And then the Zionists deny they commit genocide, simply because we cannot produce the proof to back up the accusation! Only racists needs proof. What kind of people denies someone else’s genocide and accuses them of trying to commit one?

Therefore, when we declare From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free, we mean it will be free of ugly ethnonationalism, not like the Palestinian kind, which is the good kind.

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