It’s hard, isn’t it? I wasn’t sure whether to hit ‘Reply’ on that one as I didn’t want it to be read as ‘don’t openly support Palestine’. We’ve just got to be careful about it. Avoid letting our enemies trap us into publicly supporting ‘terrorist groups’, because that could get you arrested at a protest, for example. Not that our enemies won’t impose a false equivalence on us, anyway.
Keeping it slightly vague should be safe enough, I’d imagine. One of the good things about the performativity of liberalism is that it means some level of performativity is acceptable; and supporting Palestine is a part of that for many. Not for enough people, but for many. Lord knows there are enough crimes committed against Palestinians to protest all day every day about their treatment without needing to weigh up the actions of Hamas at a rally.
It’s hard, isn’t it? I wasn’t sure whether to hit ‘Reply’ on that one as I didn’t want it to be read as ‘don’t openly support Palestine’. We’ve just got to be careful about it. Avoid letting our enemies trap us into publicly supporting ‘terrorist groups’, because that could get you arrested at a protest, for example. Not that our enemies won’t impose a false equivalence on us, anyway.
Keeping it slightly vague should be safe enough, I’d imagine. One of the good things about the performativity of liberalism is that it means some level of performativity is acceptable; and supporting Palestine is a part of that for many. Not for enough people, but for many. Lord knows there are enough crimes committed against Palestinians to protest all day every day about their treatment without needing to weigh up the actions of Hamas at a rally.