HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: There’s no intrinsic obstacle to Jewish people and Palestinian people living ...
There’s no intrinsic obstacle to Jewish people and Palestinian people living side-by-side with each other in their shared ancestral homeland or literally anywhere else in the world. That’s called “anarchism.”
But there is a *political* obstacle, a state claiming exclusionary sovereignty, which assigns some kinds of rights to some classes of people and fewer or no rights to other classes of people.
Palestinians get no rights, as victims of occupation, or substandard rights, as second-class citizens of Israel. Jews get a suite of rights,* unless they protest the state, in which case they’re likely to be treated like Palestinians and catch a cop’s fist to their jaw.
This is not self-determination. This is state sovereignty “in the name of” the Jewish people.
* I originally said “full rights” but since those are still the constrained rights granted by state authorities, and not the full rights of actually free people engaged in genuine self-determination, I corrected myself.
But there is a *political* obstacle, a state claiming exclusionary sovereignty, which assigns some kinds of rights to some classes of people and fewer or no rights to other classes of people.
Palestinians get no rights, as victims of occupation, or substandard rights, as second-class citizens of Israel. Jews get a suite of rights,* unless they protest the state, in which case they’re likely to be treated like Palestinians and catch a cop’s fist to their jaw.
This is not self-determination. This is state sovereignty “in the name of” the Jewish people.
* I originally said “full rights” but since those are still the constrained rights granted by state authorities, and not the full rights of actually free people engaged in genuine self-determination, I corrected myself.