Salish Sea Intifada

From Puget Sound Anarchists

Notes On Expanding the Struggle for the Liberation of the Palestinian People

The western world finds itself in shock at a colonial superpower being caught off guard by a spectacular attack – settlers and western spectators fanatically call for blood because of the implicit threat, we could be next. In response to their world class embarrassment, the colonial state seeks a hundred eyes for an eye, thousands of teeth for a tooth and wages an open campaign of extermination against the Palestinian population they hold captive.

Before our eyes this genocide plays out. The ideologues of the colonial world rush to weigh one dead Israeli against hundreds of dead Palestinians, one captive against the thousands they hold in their prisons, the violence of small arms and patch work rockets against 70 years of ethnic cleansing, 16 years of a total military blockade on Gaza, and the constant airstrikes and military operations of a nuclear super power.

Some anarchists, still filled to the brim with enlightenment humanism, may rush to shout that we must not support this, we must condemn Hamas and the atrocities they commit! But who is this condemnation for? The people of Gaza cannot hear us through the blockade, over the rumbling of their empty stomachs, over the constant airstrikes, over the wails of now childless parents and now parentless children. And if they could hear us? They would not care because we have neither shipments of weapons, nor food and clean water, nor medicine and doctors for them.

It is true that colonialism produces monsters but first and foremost it is colonialism that produces them and they are made in the image of the colonial project. If we want to condemn monsters and atrocities we should start with that of the colonizer.

But we cannot simply condemn. When bombs drop, words mean nothing. We must think, we must act. It is through action that new connections can be made, it is through action that solidarity becomes tangible. It is through action that we may have tangible impact on the occupation and open a meaningful, anti-authoritarian pole of opposition.

I humbly offer these words for anarchists in the region to chew on, think about, critique, adapt, and act on to expand the struggle for the liberation of the Palestinian people and to take steps towards the more long term, more meaningful, more dangerous solidarity.

Educate, Agitate, Attack – Expanding the Terrain of Struggle

The war isn’t as far away as we think it is. Israel is the forerunner in the development of counter-insurgency and policing techniques that get exported to the rest of the world. What they do to Palestine, US police and National Guard will do to us. But this isn’t a one sided exchange. On one hand, large US corporations are supplying physical infrastructure for apartheid and genocide while on the other hand our taxes – compelled as they are – are funding the terror in such a direct way that makes us worse than accomplices, we are actively pulling the trigger.

If we wish to take seriously the proposition of solidarity we must move from a position of passive supporter to making their fight our fight and going all in with the risk it entails. From our region I would like to propose a model of analysis and action. It’s a tool – take what’s useful and burn the rest. My proposal is a three-pronged strategy of Educate, Agitate and Attack. They are not necessarily separate things though: the best education can be disruptive and agitative, you can agitate through attack, just as you can educate through attack. With a little creativity you can pull these three apart and reconfigure them in many exciting ways.

It’s important to note that these are not discrete steps to a strategy, these are individual tools that work well together, are not necessarily separate and should all be done at the same time. Don’t wait to attack, and don’t get stuck in education by deluding yourself into thinking a critical mass of some abstract consciousness is needed to act further.

Education and Counter-Information

I think many anarchists take for granted how plugged into news of the world we are and assume everyone has the same access to information we do. Not only is this plainly wrong but its also forgetting that most the information people readily have access to is beholden to private ideological interests (in this region that is largely Sinclair Broadcast Group and The McClatchy Company), state ideological interests, or more frequently a deluge of false information for profit via social media. If there is one thing that anarchists are about 20 years behind on, it’s that information warfare is a key aspect of revolutionary struggle.

Every day the enemy’s news is churning out bullshit, internet ideologues are writing their silly little blogs and tweets, and state militaries and intelligence agencies run bot armies to churn out nonsense to pollute the information ecosystem. The knee jerk response would be to say we simply need to do what they do, but better! But for anarchists this is a dead end. We are not here to produce an endless stream of content for passive audiences, nor do we have large funders to pay for the infrastructure of a national 24-hour news network nor bot armies (though for the technically inclined, bot armies may not be that out of reach but that requires analysis of its own.) No, we must be more creative and prioritize educational interventions in physical space.

Some examples are of course the classics, graffiti and wheatpasting consistently (consistently as in maybe once every other day to keep areas plastered, not once every few weeks.) There’s also setting up a table on a corner, in a park, in random areas with zines; handbills about what’s going on; handbills about upcoming events; and trying to talk to passersby. But we can get a little more exciting and, if you will, a little more cringe. If you’re wheatpasting, why not do it in the middle of the day in outrageous costumes or in black bloc to specifically draw attention to it? Why not take some friends and a loud speaker and go set up in a busy area (ideally blocking a road or doing something disruptive like shooting fireworks) and talk about what’s going on? Handbills with more information to give out to people – or to just throw in the air by the hundreds – help a lot too. What about street theater? Again, ideally being as disruptive as possible with it. Just generally things were you can get people to stop and look and engage.

Then we can also get a little more daring with it. Maybe it’s time for pirate radio to make a comeback. You can broadcast over other stations during rush hour about what’s going on and how people can find out more. If there’s a mass demonstration, why not do a break away march to a radio or TV station, get inside and force your way on air? This may seem risky and far fetched, but there’s a genocide going on, what are you waiting for?

Ultimately education and counter-information only goes so far. Ideally we want to have face to face conversations with people, we ideally want to have an upcoming event or meeting to invite them to so they have a tangible next step. Having handbills with more information and with links to where they can learn more about what’s going on and learn more about upcoming events is key.

To boil it down: Share information and offer people a tangible next step.

Agitation and Disruption

To educate is not enough. We aren’t going to learn our way to freedom, information alone will not stop a genocide. Neither, in most cases, will agitation and disruption but it is a start. When I talk of agitation I am talking of moving people to action – hype people up and give them a tangible list of targets and possible actions. When I am talking of disruption, I specifically mean the disruption of normal economic life. This is key both for general anarchist struggle and because of how deeply entwined daily life in the US is with the funding and logistical support of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

When we think about disruption we need to be thinking about blocking commerce – stop transactions at stores and banks, disrupt the daily functioning of businesses and institutions that support or profit from the apartheid and genocide, block the transportation of people and freight. We also need to be thinking about breaking the spell of normality, the sense that everything is fine. An economic impact and a psychological impact. Every disruption is a chance to communicate and to educate. Well-worded banners and handbills, good chants and songs. Sometimes a speech can be useful to fire people up, but be careful because a speech makes a passive audience. Think big – how can we get people to act? Spreading and generalizing the conflict is key.

There are some long held disruptive tactics – protests that block traffic and intersections, though even better is taking those protests into businesses and institutions and getting them shut down for the day. Pickets at businesses and institutions that support and profit from the genocide. Highway or major thoroughfare blockades are great, but even better if you set up a hard barricade with banners and one open lane and have a handbill to give every car that passes. Blockading railways, with either shunts, sabotaging the tracks or physical blockades on the tracks are great to block commerce.

These require much more coordination and effort but boycotts and blockades are effective. There is a long term boycott campaign – Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) – that can be plugged into and has a lot of information. If that’s a little out of reach, the places to be boycotted can be continually disrupted and shut down, or their merchandise in stores can be stolen – ideally brazenly en mass – or otherwise sabotaged.

The idea is to bring the struggle from some far away place home and face to face to people so they cannot look away and pretend everything is fine and that it has nothing to do with them. And we have to think long and hard about how we approach this so that our actions and our messaging encourages people to act without waiting for a call to act or a single day of protest, we need to constantly push the idea that we are all protagonists in struggle, that we cannot wait for others to do what we can and that there are targets within our reach and a whole range of ways to engage.

Attack!

Fundamentally, solidarity means attack. To physically destroy the infrastructure of oppression and genocide. This is what’s going to do the most damage, is most likely to hamper the abilities of the genocidal structure to function, but this is also the most risky. There are two – complementary – ways to approach this. First as small crews and second as large crowds. One needn’t look far to see what small groups do as anarchists regularly carry out small group actions. From broken windows to arson to breaking into labs and slaughterhouses and releasing captive creatures. All of these tactics can successfully be applied to the struggle for the liberation of the Palestinian people.

But we should think long and hard about our goals. Sure, a small group of us could go burn down some Amazon or Boeing infrastructure, but how much more powerful would it be if we got 1000 other people to storm and ransack the place with us? At any point we can and should undertake small group action but if we are trying to expand the terrain of struggle it is so a fuck-ton of people will engage in brazen, combative action and this takes a lot of time, building relationships, bold action and communication on our part, and careful planning.

In some instances this could be planning a combative breakaway march for the next mass demonstration, in other instances this could be taking the risk and putting in the effort of calling for our own mass combative action. But whether small group or mass action this entails risk and requires immense effort but this is fundamentally what it will take to open up another front in anti-colonial struggle to spread thin the colonizers.

It’s crucial to dispense with the long held idea that we cannot be the cause of major upsurge and revolt, that we can only take a role of support and intervention. What is possible for us to do is largely determined by how much effort and consistency we are willing to put into a given line of struggle over a long period of time. We are usually bad at this, but it doesn’t have to stay this way and to truly live up to the immense task laid before us in the imperial core it cannot stay this way.

Setting Sights

What follows is a small and non-exhaustive list of targets that support, prop up and/or profit off the ongoing apartheid and genocide in the Salish Sea region.

First and foremost, every town and city will contain any number of people in power, businesses, non-profits, institutions, etc, that support Israel and push their propaganda. With some research these can be found and become prime targets. If nothing else we should make the territories we are in socially, and ideally physically, hostile to zionists. They’re certainly doing this to people who support Palestinian liberation with people losing jobs and being black-listed from various industries and institutions.

Secondly, since Israel’s founding in 1948 the US has sent over $130 billion in aid. Between 2018 and 2022 the US has sent $5.7 billion in military equipment via the Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) process, and since 1992 the US has given an additional $6.6 billion worth of military equipment through the Excess Defense Articles program. U.S. European Command also maintains in Israel the U.S. War Reserve Stockpile, which can be used to boost Israeli defenses in the case of a significant military emergency. All of this information comes from the Department of State.

All of this money comes out of our taxes. When we pay rent and our landlords use that to pay property tax, a portion of that funds the Israeli war machine. When we make profit for our bosses and they use some of that to pay property tax, or pay to their landlord so they can pay property tax, we made money for the Israeli war machine. When we get paid and a chunk of that is taken for income tax, that goes to the Israeli war machine. The things we are compelled to do by the occupying military at home fund the occupying war machine both here and there. It is critical that we find ways to engage in long term rent and labor refusal.

Third, 2,200 soldiers from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit along with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and the USS Gerald R Ford Carrier Strike Group are in the region with orders to be ready to deploy. The military has also moved multiple military advisers to Israel to advise their ground invasion of Gaza. While today storming JBLM would be just a dream, what we can do are disruptions of and attacks on military recruiting centers as well as pushes to remove military recruiters from schools and universities. We can also take lessons from the Port Military Resistance should the need and opportunity to physically block the shipment of soldiers and military equipment arise. We should as well remember from PMR when the US military sent intelligence officer John Towry from JBLM to physically infiltrate activist and anarchist spaces.

Fourth, multiple tech companies which provide digital infrastructure for the apartheid and genocide have major infrastructure here in Washington. This includes Google with offices in Seattle and Kirkland, Microsoft with offices in Seattle and Redmond, and Amazon with offices in Seattle. Amazon also has Amazon Stores in Seattle and Whole Foods – which they also own – all over the region. There are also Amazon Distribution Centers in DuPont, Sumner, Seattle, Lacey, as well as one up north in Delta, British Columbia.

Fifth, Boeing which has major infrastructure in the region, has sent bombs to Israel. They have offices and a manufacturing area in Everett as well as offices in Seattle and Auburn.

Sixth, Starbucks which is all over the region and headquartered in Seattle is suing the Starbucks Union over a statement in support of Palestine.

Seventh, various police forces and agencies train with the IDF and bring the tactics and strategies they use against the Palestinian people back here to use on us. Seattle opposed a resolution to bar SPD from being trained by the IDF, police in Georgia train with the IDF through the GILEE program which puts local Cop City targets on the table (for more info, see Stop Cop City Solidarity), and ICE/Border Patrol who maintain a heavy presence in the region along with the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma train with the IDF.

Seventh, the BDS movement maintains a large list of corporations and institutions supporting apartheid. The major corporations which they identify and many of which are to some degree or another in the region or contracted with another corporation, business or institution in the region are: Elbit Systems, Google, Amazon, HP and HPF, CAT, JCB, Volvo, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Chevron, Siemens, CAF. G4S/Allied Universal, AXA, PUMA, Carrefour, Booking.com, Airbnb, Sabra, Barclays, and Expedia.

This is a pretty surface level list of targets. More research is needed to get specific addresses, names and addresses of individuals involved, contractors and subcontractors etc.

Solidarity in the Long Haul

What I have written here is for the short and medium term, but solidarity is a long term affair and unfortunately anarchists don’t have the best track record with long term struggle. This can and must change. We must continue to be in the fight once the news moves to the next catastrophe. A year from now, ten years from now, until the day Israel falls and the Palestinian people are free.

Solidarity implies risk and danger, that part of making their fight our fight is also putting our bodies on the line. Do we go where the bombs are dropping to build personal connections with insurgent communities? Here the liberals have us beat and we can look to the example of Rachel Corrie who went to the occupied territories and was murdered by the IDF when she put her body between an armored bulldozer and the house of a Palestinian family that was to be demolished. She should be alive though and the struggle doesn’t need more martyrs.

But for us to show up in a strange context with no connections will likely get us killed. We must build connections with individuals, crews and organizations active in struggle. The first step of this is learning the language which I see as the primary first step of international solidarity. From here we make connections, sometimes this can be facilitated by friends, by networks, by organizations or by the internet. Then we need structures – formal or informal matters not – to facilitate and sponsor bringing comrades from other places here to talk about their struggles, and to send us to their territories to see for ourselves, to make more connections, and to fight with them and face the same dangers they face.

From this basis of connection and affinity we can begin to approach more sophisticated aspects – how do we forge documents? How do we smuggle money, people, supplies, information, food, and weapons across borders? These things may seem far off and fantastical to us but this was the bread and butter of our forebears and what internationalism necessitates. In the past revolutionary and anti-colonial movements could rely on a super power bloc to help them with these things – with strings attached. We never could rely on such a thing, nor is there even such a thing to rely on anyway. What we do in our region and what others do in theirs – how we fight, how we make connections, how we communicate – must be the seeds of a black international that can position anarchy as a global force of opposition that can provide material aid to liberatory struggles so people are not forced to choose between two or three different tyrants.

This is a long term project, we’re talking 5 years, 10 years, 20 years. But this is what true solidarity necessitates, this is what an anti-nationalist internationalism necessitates. The task laid before us is enormous in scope and we will either rise to the challenge or once again fall obscure into the dustbin of history. The choice is ours.

Further Resources

Here are some further resources to help facilitate taking action.

Puget Sound Anarchists – Regional clearing house for anarchist news and analysis. Send your events and calls to action, your communiques and reportbacks, your critique and analysis. This is a tool for talking to each other, use it.

Unravel – A national clearing house of anarchist and combative action, for keeping up on the national struggle.

No Trace Project – A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.

Warrior Up – View with Tor Browser! A research project on techniques for sabotaging capitalist infrastructure and extractive industries.

Empire Logistics – Interactive logistics infrastructure maps.

Deadly Exchange – Information on US police training with the IDF.

No Tech for Apartheid – Information on the tech sector support of the Israeli apartheid regime and resistance to it.

BDS Movement – Information on the Boycott, Divest, Sanction campaign, with lots of information on various businesses and institutions supporting the ongoing genocide.

Decolonize Palestine – Introductory information on the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

Fauda – Telegram channel for the anarchist group Fauda. In Arabic so use DeepL translate. Lots of information on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

Palestine Resist – Telegram channel for the Resistance News Network, lots of information from Gaza and the West Bank on the situation and resistance to the invaders.

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"First and foremost, every town and city will contain any number of people in power, businesses, non-profits, institutions, etc, that support Israel and push their propaganda. With some research these can be found and become prime targets. If nothing else we should make the territories we are in socially, and ideally physically, hostile to zionists. They’re certainly doing this to people who support Palestinian liberation with people losing jobs and being black-listed from various industries and institutions."

Attacking "Zionists" is one of the dumbest fucking ideas I've ever heard from an anarchist except for indiscriminate nihilist bombings because the social war blah blah. What the fuck does it mean to make "the territories" you are in "socially, and ideally physically, hostile to zionists"? You mean attacking synagogues? Probably some Zionist ones in the territory you are in. They're non-profits, right?

Where do you stand on "indiscriminate nihilist bombings because the" lulz AND/OR Wild Nature?

Well based on the nature documentaries I've seen, "wild nature" doesn't seem to be doing it.

The lulz is another story. You can't argue against lulz. Lulz are the only pure and innocent thing left in this disgusting world.

It’s as smart as always punching a Nazi in his/her/them’s face. Wherever they may be.

We smashed seven windows at the "alameda county" courthouse tonight. This attack is for the martyrs of Palestine. Every "american" soldier, cop, court, and prison is a target. Freedom to all Palestinian prisoners! Freedom to all prisoners of "america!" Put the sword against the sword! Let the olive branch fall, long live the hammer! Bring the war home! Death to "israel!" Death to "america!"

anarchists

They advocate for disrupting the economy so primarily corporations and/or banks like Bank of America duh. The fact that you immediately assume synagogues is a pretty bad faith response.

Do I need to rephrase this for you? I’m calling it stupid because it’s vague about the scope of what counts as Zionists. American Jews usually consider themselves Zionists because it means Jewish patriotism or support for Israel as a Jewish homeland. They lost some targets for a maximal program. Their minimal program is the intimidation of local “Zionists”.

I mean I just re-read it. It’s nice they link to the Perlman text. Some of the tactical insights are fine. I know someone whose life was ruined because they got caught smashing military recruitment windows and charged as a terrorist - so I am a little skeptical of that tactic. But yes, their minimal program - “first and foremost” - is intimidating small time, low risk targets you can find by doing your own research. I remember when a Jewish owned business was attacked as gentrifying in a neighborhood that had been Jewish and then became predominantly black. I’m reminded of this when I think about people doing their own research on what good Zionist targets would be. Specially since they mention local businesses and non profits. Do they mean campus Jewish groups? Who do they mean? Obviously their maximal program makes more sense because it actually identifies institutions directly funding Israeli operations. But when you talk about local, small, soft cultural power …people providing misinformation or propaganda for Israel, who comes to your mind? How do you not think of educational or religious institutions’ reading that? Serious question. No bad faith here, really.

"American Jews usually consider themselves Zionists"

This is incredibly false and presumptive of you. None of the American Jews I know (a lot, including family) are Zionists. In fact, most are avowed anti-Zionist.

Confirmation bias much?

First article in response to query, “American Jewish support for Israel”: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/13/1205627092/american-support-israel-biden-...

Maybe they don’t think Israel should be a homeland for Jews though. Let’s try another one, do some of own research here…

“American Jewish support for Zionism”:

First and second hits:
1) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/magazine/israel-american-jews.html
2) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/21/u-s-jews-have-widely-...

First one is paywalled (not a big obstacle though) but the second is from PEW and they tend to be alright with polling.

CyberDandy,

Who do you think are taking the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, NYTimes, etc polls? What demographic if American Jews do you think are taking polls from these fucking sources?

Come one, man I thought you were an anarchist. What the fuck

That NPR/Marist poll was published on 10/13 (the Hamas attack was on 10/7) and:

"The survey of 1,313 adults was conducted Wednesday and has a margin of error of +/- 3.8 percentage points, meaning results could be about 4 points lower or higher. Respondents were reached by telephone using live interviewers, by text or online."

Israel's most brutal retaliation had not yet begun. This is your evidence? This is exactly confirmation bias like they mentioned, however. Come on.

I am a different anon that the one you replied to with your links.

Go find a better poll then or a better way to figure this out. I didn't even read these links. I posted them to demonstrate that you can use a search engine and quickly find insights.

Go find a better poll then or a better way to figure this out. I didn't even read these links. I posted them to demonstrate that you can use a search engine and quickly find insights.

CD, this is EXACTLY HOW confirmation bias works, you understand that, right? Stop searching for an outside authority to prove your point and start critically thinking. PLEASE. You are better than this.

Why won’t you just address the point I’m making and tell me what comes to your mind when you think about who the local Zionists are that people reading this are likely to identify?

You’re arguing with me about how many American Jews consider themselves Zionists, but that doesn’t actually change who people reading this will identify as Zionists when they do their own research. You are familiar with cognitive biases, apply that insight to how you think what I quoted can be interpreted.

If you want a percentage of American Jews who consider themselves Zionists - a fact that is probably changing a lot right now- there isn’t any easy way to get that figure. But the very least you can do to try is look at polls.

There are at least 3 different people you're talking to in this thread.

You are right that the people who are reading this article and who are going to be incensed by its suggestion aren't going to make nuanced decisions and differentiate between pro- and anti-Zionist Jews. This is terrible but we do not need to cheapen our point (we share a point, you and I) by resorting to fallacies. We don't need to "Wayne Price" things by claiming "most ___ agree!" and then confirm by relying on statistics that are driven by all the things that probably contributed to our becoming anarchists.

Authoritarian tribalism and nationalism dressed up as anarchy is absolutely necessary to speak out against. Perhaps Anews will give you as much space to do so as it has the "anarcho"-nationalists.

Shalom

Fair enough - also fair though is to notice that I said, "Maybe they don’t. I don’t actually know. Maybe find a survey on Jewish support for the existence of Israel or something. It doesn’t change the fundamental argument I made about the which institutions one is likely to find locally that are promoting Zionism." ...of course, it wasn't threaded well so y'know, whatever.

Just to be clear on what my actual position is on all of this:

1) I am generally for the decolonization framework and actively, materially support such efforts by donating to Indigenous Action Media when I can. The anarchists I am closest with are deeply inspired by Race Traitor and that influence rubs off on me, despite having read little of it.

2) I am also generally for direct action strategies and even ones that come out of Washington, like Seattle Solidarity Federation.

3) I am against the State of Israel and for its abolition, along with other nation-states.

4) I am against Zionism and all other forms of nationalism, except in some cases where "national liberation" isn't actually nationalism as a state-building project.

5) I strongly identify as Jewish. I propose Jewish Peoplehood instead of Zionism as a compatible framework with anarchism.

6) I'm an anarchist.

Those 6 items considered, my problem with how some anarchists are responding to the Israel-Palestine conflicts (along with a huge part of the Left) is that by using the frameworks of "settler-colonialism" and "decolonization" to understand Zionism - and specifically Zionism, not Israeli party ideologies as their own things - an almost impossible demand is made on Jews. If you expect Jews to decolonize on the one hand, but to abandon the idea that the land they come from is an appropriate homeland on the other hand, then unless they are anti-nationalist (civic nationalists) or anarchists, there isn't a way to do both of those things. So I deeply sympathize with that conundrum and have spent a lot of my life thinking through it, given my already stated commitments.

But also as an anarchist, I want to hold other anarchists to a high standard when it comes to calls to action. I also want to see anarchists address how the privatization of land in Palestine made Zionist land purchases possible, critique the Kibbutzim's achievements and failures, learn from Zionist history how nationalist conflicts pushed a national liberation ideology to the right, and understand the geopolitical problems related to Israel and its allies, and make the case for revolutionary anarchism in Israel/Palestine because I do think that there is a case to be made for it.

Finally, I am very pessimistic about the capacity for anarchists to do anything about the current war on Gaza and Palestinians generally, at least for some time. After living through the anti-Iraq/Afghanistan war movement, the ability for citizens to impact geopolitical relations and military objectives seems miniscule to me. Partially, I think that is because we don't have a draft or compulsory military service in the United States, which would not be something I'm for, but it does mean that there isn't a lot of leverage for mass action. I also think that the interests of the United States in the Middle-East (and Israel) are so fucking deep that it's foolish to believe Zionism has much to do with it.

So in sum, I think that education about Zionism is important. I think opposition to Zionism is important. However, I think it's one of the least important factors in US-Israel relations and Israel-(Palestinian)Arab relations. I also think that hyperfocusing on Zionism is risky because of the way that fascists try to benefit from it. Anarchists seem to have been good about repulsing fascists from pro-Palestine events, but in the information war I'm doubtful about how well anarchists are doing this.

I've seen anarchists advocate against toning down messaging on all this. Ok, I can see some validity to the arguments. At the same time, if your messaging is replete with bad research, notoriously manipulative memes, stereotypes, and absurd arguments then yeah... tone that the fuck down. It's an embarrassment and it comes off as opportunistic.

Shalome

You will never be a real glowie. You have no intelligence, you have no analytical ability, you have no successful missions. You are a diversity hire and/or Zogbot twisted by goyslop and a love of Israel into a crude mockery of Cold War-era competence.

All the “consent” you manufacture is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind their firewalls the FSB and Ministry of State Security mock you. American citizens are disgusted and ashamed of you, your information campaign targets laugh at your illogical arguments behind closed doors.

Millennials and Zoomers are utterly repulsed by you. Dozens of years of failed brainwashing attempts have allowed younger generations to sniff out glowie intel operations with incredible efficiency. Even glowposts that “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a millennial. Your faith in our failed government is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a newfag to fall for your bait, he’ll post sneed the second he gets a whiff of your diseased, infected support of a supposed rules-based international order.

You will never be influential. You hoist up a manufactured narrative every five minutes and tell yourself it’s going to be impactful, but deep inside you feel the futility creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.

Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - government debt will accumulate, inflation will get out of control, more money will be sent to Israel and Ukraine, and the United States will collapse. Looters will break into your offices, elated and relieved that they can sell some computers to buy food. They’ll burn down your agency’s offices to stay warm, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know another failed gloworg is buried there. Your organization will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy are wasted money and constitutional violations.

This is your fate. This is what the Dulles Brothers chose. There is no turning back.

Actually, hold on don’t comment again yet. Maybe you are the one that wrote this originally. Not a lot of it laying around search engine index.

If you are that person, then now you know how much I love this. If not, you still gave me some fresh copypasta to eat and thanks again.

Yeah, I'm an anarchist and I'm also a Jew. I have skin in this and careless calls to action targeting people who I am related to have an impact on me. Dealing with American ignorance about Jews and how that has played out lately, well before this recent Gaza atrocity, has been a frustrating fact of my life. Write me off as biased because of it, I don't give a fuck. I'm not going to shut my mouth and pretend like the latest ambulance activists are chasing makes them angels that get everything right.

Maybe they don’t. I don’t actually know. Maybe find a survey on Jewish support for the existence of Israel or something. It doesn’t change the fundamental argument I made about the which institutions one is likely to find locally that are promoting Zionism. And you didn’t give me any counter example for this so I presume you know I’m right, especially since I know aim right.

Also some more critique since I know you like reading my commentary now: where the fuck are the educational resources about Jews, Jewish history, a comprehensive understanding of Zionism, Israeli politics, demographics, etc. Is this more do your own research? Or is Israel and its people only important insofar as they can be demonized?

Ask those same American Jews that you think support Zionism what Zionism means. See if your opinion on what you think they mean changes. I'll wait.

That's exactly my point and if you keep missing it I'm going to start thinking you're just trolling me. For the third time (at least), the problem with this piece form Washington is that it isn't clear what counts as "Zionism," even though the first and FOREMOST thing they are saying anarchists should "If nothing else we should make the territories we are in socially, and ideally physically, hostile to zionists."

When you look at their list of links, there isn't much there to help the reader learn about any of this that we're discussing. The author(s) advise on identifying Zionists, "With some research these can be found and become prime targets."

So given that American Jews will call themselves Zionists and it's ambiguous what they mean by that at best, using the label of "Zionist" to identify targets in a campaign against Israel is sloppy as fuck.

You'll find no argument from me on the stupidity of the article, it's authors, or on any "anarchist" with nationalistic ulterior motives.
Shalom

"They would not care because we have neither shipments of weapons, nor food and clean water, nor medicine and doctors for them."
"How do we smuggle money, people, supplies, information, food, and weapons across borders?"

Who in this conflict needs more arms? Maybe if there was some sign of an internal uprising against Hamas? Or if people wanted to escape the IDF and Hamas en masse and go into Egypt and have to fight through the Egyptian border guards? If Israeli or Hamas soldiers want to mutiny don't they already have plenty or weapons? But there is zero sign of any of these things. Why on earth do you dream of shipping weapons into this war zone?

If you Ukraine didn't make you into an anarchist war hawk, maybe Gaza will!

Just thought U land awks might want to be reminded of this.

Also, I really don't think a sophisticated anti-zionist discourse needs more new left derivative analysis. There's enough idiots in the streets with the 'river to the sea' chants that are useful to the hasbara propaganda complex.

With friends like pro-palestinians...

The real anti-imperialists in the region were the Zionists, actually. The Haganah prior to '48 was an insurrectionist organization seeking to remove the remaining British Empire from Mandatory Palestine while defending against the Islamic fascist paramilitaries of the Arab league, who were fully-backed by the Third Reich during WW2. This was part of the global decolonization movement that followed WW2, with the receding of the global European empires and the consolidation of the US and USSR as global superpowers.

So it's not "75 years" but rather like a 90 years that started in Europe with inter-imperialist wars and the collapse of modern empires.

It's true that civilians regardless where/who they are end up at the receiving end of these horrible wars driven by resentment and nationalism. The job of anarchists in such contexts, whatever that may be, shouldn't be to further amplify these. That'd be the most anti-anarchist thing to do, actually. Muslims and Jews for a long part of history have maintained some quite good relations. The city of Granada in Andalusia stands as a great historical example of it, but you also had Muslim locals sheltering Jews during the Arab revolts/pogroms of '36-'39 in MP.

This whole ethno-nationalist and religious polarization is the result of foreign empires' influences in the region. It's deep insane for anarchists to be further giving weight to this polarization... but I can only assume that there are toxic influences here and there, carrying their load of hatred and bigotry as legit "anarchist" imperatives.

I think the whole toxic narrative of Israel began out of a collective mass guilt complex after 1945. All previous migration/invasion is humankind's instinstive imperative i.e. when it gets crowded and food runs out, move somewhere else for survival. The religiosity is just an excuse to justify power and political authority.

A "guilt complex" is totally what German and American neonazis keep rambling about, and of course there's no reason you couldn't be another of those sassy bigots. The claim of such complex is used to wash away from the "eternal guilt" of the Holocaust, and restoring "pride" in the race, the nation. Or getting rid of the guilt, so you can at last, once again, depict Jews as a toxic group to get rid of. Circular logic.

But you are responsible of your bigotry and hatred when you target Jews for being invaders in your "homeland" due to the "Nabka", just as much as zionist fanatics brandishing the Holocaust to justify more colonies. The pogroms priori and during Mandatory Palestine are fact. The Hebron massacre and the Arab revolts of '36-39 did happen. There is a precedent of brutal antisemitic violence that is connected to this perception of Jews as invaders, and there ain't much in this "anticolonial" anti-Zionism setting it apart from it. Especially when random PEOPLE are being pointed as targets.

so! turn the clocks back a bit further, switch continents, war parties are killing off and burning white settler communities somewhere on the east coast of north america. how do you track the causality there? certainly the violence flowed in every direction at various times, plenty of the early colonists to north america were fleeing political violence and religious persecution.

makes a lot more sense to keep track of who had overwhelming military superiority over time, than to just list the slights everyone uses to justify everything...

Taking that argument to its logical extention, how about when the Gaulish hordes migrated down into the Italian peninsula and attacked Rome on different occasions spanning centuries, causing an enrichment of the human gene pool and a diversity in ideas and social experimentation. Is it an instinctual territorial imperative which produces tribal/ nationalist xenophobia and borders which alpha males exploit to become warrior saviors and gain social power? All of history is about conquest and exploitation, and this is no different to herd behavior amongst other mammal species. Let's face it, we are dumb herd animals and only a radical psychological based alteration and control of these animalistic tendencies can alter a lemming like destiny.

whataboutisrite!

good thing you and i don't share "logical extentions" [sic] or values or conclusions or politics ... or ..hardly anything in common!

GOOD THING

That's because you cling to your collective hobocracy, or herd morality.

That shit argument totally counts as a whataboutism, Lump-PEE.

And I suspect we've had this argument before, but on another platform. Or it's just me arguing with yet another Palestine drone, as they always got the same talking points like they got brainwashed really hard during college.

The targeted, *planned* and systematic genocide of over 6 millions of Jews and other "untermensch" in the space of a few years can't be in no way compared with the implicit, indirect, structural and consequential genocide of the American natives over 500 years. Quit the genocide olympics; it's sick. I'd like to avoid reminding fools here about the Holocaust, yet here were are.... again!

The other anon in this thread here, err, the 6 million in 5 years is petty compared to the 2 million Ruandians killed in 6 months, yet they got over it and don't play the victim card ad nausium.
Also, the 30-50 million Slavic Russians between 1950 -1970 is up there, everyone's forgotten that pogrom.
Guilt is a political/religious tool.

do you even notice you just conceded that this is all a game of rhetoric to you, that you equivocate everyone you're ever discussing this with as "drones" and that you're loading up what you perceive to be your automatic "win" by mentioning the holocaust?

self awareness isn't your strong suit, huh? what a terminally online scumbag you've become! bravo

bonus points for just arbitrarily declaring things as if that's how proof works?
i'm comparing them. they can be compared. it's being done all over the fukin world right now.

Other anon here, I'm worried, I'm actually starting to like lumpy, bravo!

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