Dolores Ibarruri, La Passionaria, famously exhorted during the Spanish Civil War, “Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees.” For the past 20 years the people of Gaza, half of whom are children, have been immured in a concentration camp. Today they breached the camp’s walls. If we honor John Brown’s armed resistance to slavery; if we honor the Jews who revolted in the Warsaw Ghetto—then moral consistency commands that we honor the heroic resistance in Gaza. I, for one, will never begrudge—on the contrary, it warms every fiber of my soul—the scenes of Gaza’s smiling children as their arrogant Jewish supremacist oppressors have, finally, been humbled.
Thanks, Professor! You’re one of my heroes. Dropped this today on the Xwitter page of NBA megastar Draymond Green. I had no idea what he was involved in. I shared your Image and Reality and Parenti’s Against Empire with him. Who knows, maybe his pal LeBron really does like to read and we’ll luck out? Ha! It’s almost impossible, but like Roy Brown said, you have to laugh to keep from crying, and from realizing that 150 million Americans voted for more of the same, and elected Biden, knowing full well — OK, at least I did and warned everyone — what he said to Menachem Begin during the Shatilla and Sabra Massacres of 1982. Genocide Joe, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. was always already a war criminal (unless this has been debunked & I don’t know about it). We asked for this, which makes it all the worse. @Norman Finkelstein
I know that athletes (Ali, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Bill Walton, Colin Kaepernick excluded) are mostly uneducated or uncommitted when it comes to politics, history, & social justice, but going to Israel and doing propaganda for these genocidal apartheid butchers? Shame on you, brother, apology or none. You don’t owe it to anybody to have an opinion on this issue, but doing PR for apartheid? You did NOT know this about Israel? As an African American male who has lived with the systemic racism and the militarized police forces of the United States, how could you NOT know this? You went to university for four years, right? Now, like the 150 million other Americans who voted for more censorship, proxy war, genocide, anti-worker policies, no health care, and everything this two-party lie represents, I see even someone who should understand oppression just gleefully going along with the dictates of the bloodiest and most savage Empire in history. Because you got yours, right? Please, call me names now, issue death threats, avoid the truth. I’m used to it. Or educate yourself and do some good. I don’t know how old this story is, but it’s disgusting. Unless this is slander, you don’t have much of an argument.
Thank you for what you do and say and are.
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/nba-israel-palestine-draymond-green-lebron-james
Thanks, Professor! You’re one of my heroes. Dropped this today on the Xwitter page of NBA megastar Draymond Green. I had no idea what he was involved in. I shared your Image and Reality and Parenti’s Against Empire with him. Who knows, maybe his pal LeBron really does like to read and we’ll luck out? Ha! It’s almost impossible, but like Roy Brown said, you have to laugh to keep from crying, and from realizing that 150 million Americans voted for more of the same, and elected Biden, knowing full well — OK, at least I did and warned everyone — what he said to Menachem Begin during the Shatilla and Sabra Massacres of 1982. Genocide Joe, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. was always already a war criminal (unless this has been debunked & I don’t know about it). We asked for this, which makes it all the worse. @Norman Finkelstein
I know that athletes (Ali, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Bill Walton, Colin Kaepernick excluded) are mostly uneducated or uncommitted when it comes to politics, history, & social justice, but going to Israel and doing propaganda for these genocidal apartheid butchers? Shame on you, brother, apology or none. You don’t owe it to anybody to have an opinion on this issue, but doing PR for apartheid? You did NOT know this about Israel? As an African American male who has lived with the systemic racism and the militarized police forces of the United States, how could you NOT know this? You went to university for four years, right? Now, like the 150 million other Americans who voted for more censorship, proxy war, genocide, anti-worker policies, no health care, and everything this two-party lie represents, I see even someone who should understand oppression just gleefully going along with the dictates of the bloodiest and most savage Empire in history. Because you got yours, right? Please, call me names now, issue death threats, avoid the truth. I’m used to it. Or educate yourself and do some good. I don’t know how old this story is, but it’s disgusting. Unless this is slander, you don’t have much of an argument.