A Pro-Hamas Left Emerges
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Basically, the anti-Zionist Regressive Left....like Mondoweiss.
In the pursuit of political goals and an anti-Israel message, Historians Against the War has abandoned the standards of its profession and adopted a stance that objectively supports Hamas’s war aims.
....The historians’ demands were, in short, essentially the same as those made by Hamas. Satisfying these demands constituted its definition of victory: Lift the blockade without demilitarization, put Israel in the dock for alleged war crimes, and preserve Hamas’s arsenal so it could continue to threaten Israel.
The interesting and historically significant aspect of these historians’ response to Hamas’s war of aggression is that it offers clear and depressing evidence of a change in the meaning of leftist ideology and politics. The leftism of the Historians Against the War statement reflects an opposition to some reactionary movements but not others. Movements of the extreme Right that are anti-Semitic, sexist, homophobic, and, of course, anti-democratic are acceptable so long as they aim to destroy the state of Israel and attack “U.S. imperialism.” This soft spot for reactionary Islamist ideology is partly the result of years of denial and timidity in the face of bogus accusations of “Islamophobia.” The moods expressed in the historians’ statement lead to forgiveness for sins committed by those attacking Israel—sins that would be denounced if they came from political currents in Europe and the United States.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/08/26/a-pro-hamas-left-emerges/
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