Warning: Cynicism
I am a part of a left org that has been putting efforts into showing support for Palestine. A lot of demos, speaking at city council meetings, pressuring agencies to support a ceasefire, etc.
I’m considering bringing it up to comrades that maybe this has run its course. The IDF has been moving South and is now in Rafah. The only thing the US has done is issue “concerns” that have been ignored; the US has not stopped funding the war. How much destruction is there left that we as American activists are even trying to prevent?
Tell me I’m wrong. I want to be wrong. I just see comrades putting their efforts into this for emotional and not practical reasons at this point.
It may not really be affecting change, now, but you know what? It’s keeping the fire going, so that perhaps something will happen. Otherwise we’re sort of surrendering the people of Gaza to the dustbin of history.
And I’m a fucking loser for saying this because I haven’t yet been to a single protest (PSL organizes one almost like every week but I never check their Instashit in time) but, I think it matters, to show them that they aren’t forgotten.
Yeah, it’s a little bit of a lib historian impulse, but someday, people will look back on the barbarism of imperialism and ask, “Who challenged the zionists?” Just like we ask today, “who challenged the nazis?” Or “how could it happen here?”
We should fight like hell to show solidarity to the Palestinians who haven’t perished yet.