This article tries very hard to imply that it’s a fundamentally novel concept (adopted by naive young activists) to conceive of Israel as a colonial enterprise. He doesn’t say this directly, but this works very well with the “youth support Palestine because they’re brainwashed by TikTok” narrative.
It doesn’t seem to occur to the author that the reason he’d never heard it before is because the US has just never really seen such vocal defense for Palestine.
One thing I’ve noticed with liberals is that when they hear about something they’ve never heard before, they assume it must be brand new and no one else has ever heard of it either. They can’t imagine that someone else knows more than they do.
This article tries very hard to imply that it’s a fundamentally novel concept (adopted by naive young activists) to conceive of Israel as a colonial enterprise. He doesn’t say this directly, but this works very well with the “youth support Palestine because they’re brainwashed by TikTok” narrative.
It doesn’t seem to occur to the author that the reason he’d never heard it before is because the US has just never really seen such vocal defense for Palestine.
Anyways in case anyone encounters this bird-brained position in the wild I’m linking to Fayez Sayegh’s Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965)
One thing I’ve noticed with liberals is that when they hear about something they’ve never heard before, they assume it must be brand new and no one else has ever heard of it either. They can’t imagine that someone else knows more than they do.