From Shailja Patel

I share postings on Israelis who name and expose Israel’s genocidal settler colonialism to counter the blanket censorship of these voices in the US mainstream. But I am uncomfortable with the valorization of Israelis – or American Jews – as ‘heroic’ for simply acting as ethical human beings. The heroes are Palestinians living under the daily atrocities of Israel’s Occupation, Gazans waiting to be killed by Israel while the world watches. You don’t get a cookie for seeing and naming genocidal settler colonialism that should have been prevented 70 years ago. Let’s support anti-Zionist Israelis and American Jews AND acknowledge that speaking out is the baseline of their humanity, not an extraordinary act.