The de facto position for anti-racist liberals is to argue that the situation in Israel/Palestine is complex. One cannot come to a conclusion about the situation that puts blame squarely on one side or another, because, as I’ve heard directly, even though Israel does bad things too, Hamas is Evil with a capital Beheaded Baby’s Evil Eye. This indecisiveness is due largely to the idea that the settler colony of the United States is a redeemable project, even as a force of good in the world. But understanding Israel’s genocidal actions and intent against its Indigenous population and the US’s full-throttled support of Israel’s aggression against Palestinians will allow us to look deeper into America’s (and Canada’s, etc.) ongoing genocide against its Indigenous and indeed Black peoples.
Systemic Racism ??? How to be racist by accident
Systemic racism is a big topic, and one I believe most progressives have heard of before. I’m not the first, tenth, or hundredth to…