"Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself" Is A Genocidal Slogan by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2025-04-27 at 07:41:26 )

"Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself" Is A Genocidal Slogan by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself" on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia.

Israel does not have "a right to defend itself" against an occupied population in a giant concentration camp. Under international law it has a right to end the occupation, and that is it. "Israel has a right to defend itself" is just a slogan people say when they want to justify supplying an ongoing genocide.

At one point in the tour Sanders stood passively watching as police dragged off rally attendees who draped a Free Palestine flag over the United States flag during his speech. He just awkwardly continued monologuing as their flag was confiscated and they were forcibly removed, even as the crowd booed and eventually began chanting "Free Palestine".

-at his rally today in LA Bernie Sanders once again repeated the same old genocidal Zionist hasbara "Israel has the right to defend itself" line. He is doing this 18 months into a genocide that he refuses to recognize. He is an irredeemable moral monster. An utterly depraved freak "please see here:" - (zei_squirrel) April 13, 2025

Sanders has been mixing his support for Israel in with periodic criticisms of Netanyahu and the Israeli governments actions in Gaza, always taking care to make his criticisms about the behavior of Israels current leadership and not the nature of the racist apartheid state itself.

Sanders is doing this for two reasons. Firstly, he is working to galvanize a big tent inclusive coalition of Democrats in opposition to Trump, and he wants that big tent to include people who think genocide is bad and people who think genocide is fine. He does not want to offend the pro-genocide liberals.

Secondly, Sanders is doing this because he himself is a Zionist. Like other liberal Zionists, Bernie Sanders upholds a vision of an Israel that has never, ever existed: one which remains an ethnostate dominated by Jews, but which conducts itself in a kind and just manner, without constantly murdering and abusing Palestinians.

This iteration of the state of Israel is a fiction. An imaginary fantasyland, like Narnia. Everything about Israel is stacked against the possibility of such a status quo ever emerging, and Israel has always done everything it can to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. By pretending it is possible to have the Zionist entity and also have peace and justice, liberal Zionists help manufacture public consent for continuing to feed weapons to the genocidal apartheid state of Israel.

-some anti-genocide people unfurled a Free Palestine flag behind Bernie Sanders at his rally just now and police thugs arrested them as Bernie Sanders looked on and let it happen without saying a word. A minute earlier Sanders said "Israel has the right to defend itself" and.. "please see here:" - (zei_squirrel) April 15, 2025

When liberal Zionists want to support Israels actions, they talk about Israel as a nation, e.g. "Israel has a right to defend itself". When liberal Zionists want to criticize Israels actions, they make it all about Netanyahu, e.g. "Netanyahus war machine."

The framing is that when Israel deserves our sympathy it is a collective, but when Israel is naughty the responsibility lies solely at the feet of one bad apple. This ensures that the weapons can keep flowing to Israel (because Israel as a whole is virtuous and worthy of support) while the liberal Zionist still gets to wear their progressive humanitarian clothing (because they wagged their fingers at Netanyahu).

And it is just a complete and utter lie. Netanyahu did not create Israels genocidal tendencies, Israels genocidal tendencies created Netanyahu. His entire political career has been made possible by Israels collective racism and psychopathy upon which he rode into office.

This is nothing other than the classic Obama-style tactic of using attractive progressivish language to advance the most destructive agendas of the United States empire.

In other words, it is Democrats being Democrats!!

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