schalom libertad

A comment about Naomi Klein´s visit to Ramallah reads:

the israelis are indeed vile pigs who ought to be booted out of the Mid East permanently, (if not all thrown in jail). No on [sic] need apologize for this point of view, which is nothing other than a fundamental thirst for justice and accountability.

The poster had previously written:

Let all good Jews of the world flourish and may every city in Israel be burnt to the ground with napalm.

It should also just be understood as a quest for justice, of course.
Strange relationship indeed, between annihilation and emancipation.

Then comes along idiot #2, a defender of idiot #1. He begins with the same line of defense as the original poster:

„Can´t we agree on a platform of no borders, no nations, no factions?“

Possibly, but agitation for napalming Israeli cities, and charging them as „vile beasts,“ and advocating they be kicked out of the Middle East or all imprisoned, is just a little bit far removed from such a „platform“ isn´t it?

Apparently, my defense of Israelis against genocidal agitation and sweeping racist remarks means that I am „on the wrong side of the freedom/oppression wall.“ By mere opposition to genocide against Israelis, I am „on the side of death (genocide) to all those who are not your people.“

To clarify he writes „the lex talionis is making you blind.“ Yes, defense of Israelis against genocide makes one an advocate of genocide. Brilliant. Passing one´s own genocidal fantasies onto one´s interlocutor. If that isn´t projection, I don´t know what is.

And if that´s really what people understand from Naomi Klein´s work — which I was encouraged to read so I can better understand the point — I will continue to keep her work at the bottom of my reading list.