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Stephanie Power's avatar

Hi Ben, thank you for this great essay! I want to start by saying that I’ve returned again and again to read your essay “Israel, Zionism, Apartheid” because it has continued to be a tonic for me whilst losing my mind for the last 11 months in this moral hellscape otherwise known as the West. I’m Canadian but since my country is a lapdog to US imperialist interests, I am keeping track and could see the downhill trajectory with Harris just a few seconds after “Kamala is brat.” Once the DNC went full on joy while denying any Palestinian voices, everything got super cringe super fast. The DNC propaganda machine was itself kind of ummm screechy!

If Harris continues her hawkish fantasy of standing with Israel and promising the most “lethal” military (yikes wtf!), that should serve as an off ramp for most intelligent, compassionate people. And if that is a gateway to Trump, I guess the West will go down in flames under his eye. I’m sure Palestinians would see that as a karmic reward for our complicity in a genocide and they wouldn’t be wrong. I will keep my fingers crossed something changes in her policy but knowing what I’ve learned about imperialism, I don’t hold out much hope. You would think it would be such a simple thing to stop sending arms to Israel until you see that it is an American war.

Can’t wait to read your book when it is released. Thank you for writing with such clarity, intelligence and conviction!

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Stephen Lehmann's avatar

My apologies for the crudeness but as for the politics of joy . . . 🤮 Talk about cynical.

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