David Miller
@Tracking_Power
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This essay by Comrade Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) from July in @NewSocialistNS is possibly the most comprehensive assessment of the war for Palestine that I have seen from a British socialist in the past year: newsocialist.org.uk/gaza-is-…

I urge you to set aside the time to read it in full.

It is a sign of how far and how quickly one's understanding of anti-imperialism can develop when exposed to Resistance sources directly, without distortion by Zionists.

As Comrade Gann rightly says:

'This scrupulous ignorance largely extends even to pro-Palestinian journalists and outlets. Has Owen Jones ever drawn on Resistance News Network? Has Novara? Even Declassified, who have otherwise exposed important elements of the situation, such as the involvement of British planes in the genocide (via Cyprus), have ignored it. The dominant tendency on the British left has thus far been to focus on the figure of the Palestinian as perpetual victim, following a line of argument most powerfully articulated in Judith Butler’s Frames of War, which tends to stress the equal “grievability” of Palestinian life.'

Comrade Gann and the New Socialist took the disastrously wrong position on the fabricated 'Labour antisemitism' smears, perhaps previously having been under-exposed to the Islamic realist worldview of the Resistance (present even among socialist Resistance organisations, such as the PFLP, and DFLP) which offers such a solid materialist framework for understanding how Zionist hasbara works and teaches to resist such banal 'antisemitism' smears.

During the Corbyn years, New Socialist threw the most enlightened anti-imperialist Labour MP of the past decade, Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW), under the bus by entertaining and reproducing Zionist talking points about him. At the time, New Socialist as an organ was part of the cacophony of political illiterates among the British Left with no understanding of Zionist history and tactics or the scale of Zionist entryism and subversion in the UK. They served as unwitting footsoldiers for a Zionist strategy that stretched across Europe, which had the intention of destroying the bonds of solidarity among anti-imperialists as a prelude to conducting a Jewish supremacist genocide across the Levant. We told you then and we're telling you now.

This naivety has also extended to other issues at the New Socialist, such as indulging Kurdish separatist killers who work on behalf of NATO as 'freedom fighters'. Such naivety arises from poor fundamental analysis and underlying systemic Islamophobia, and results in the lionising of any old band of secularist extremist thugs who post pictures of bare-headed women toting rifles.

And this brings me to the only major deficiency in Comrade Gann's sensitive and much-needed essay. He comes close to addressing the question of the centrality of Islam to the transformation and effectiveness of the Palestinian Resistance when he admonishes Matan Kaminer:

'One supports *this* Resistance or one does not support Palestinian liberation.'

Comrade Gann is correct. Secularist socialists (often simultaneously Islamophobes and Judeophiles, phenomena which are strongly correlated among influential thinkers and policymakers on both right and left who created and facilitated the ongoing War on Terror) cannot dictate to the noble people of the Resistance what they ought to believe and are in no position to condition their support during this 140-year long genocide in which they have done nothing but assist the Zionists.

But it is clear that some very important and fundamental naivety remains in Comrade Gann's approach. In the quote above, he is chiding Matan Kaminer. Let's be clear: 'Matan Kaminer' is a Zionist propagandist, which is why his slander against the Resistance was published by Jewish Voice for Labour. Kaminer's purpose is to peel leftist support away from the Resistance and keep naive, Judeophilic white liberals second-guessing themselves by making spurious arguments about how some counter-hegemonic movements engage in 'capitalist exploitation of women, nature and colonies'. This is what the kids might call "shit-tier hasbara".

If Comrade Gann wants to join the ranks of us anti-Zionists and anti-imperialists, he should bear in mind the first rule: we don't take lectures from our enemies. Jewish supremacists, and Jews who harbour even residual Zionism, or who refuse to categorically reject the hegemonic Jewishness in the world today which conditions Jewishness upon Zionism, are to be mocked and defeated, not consulted. Furthermore, who cares what some Ashkenazi colonist toad has to say about the Resistance? Has the Resistance not produced thousands of leaders in 140 years? Are their works and writings and speeches not sufficient for you? What does it say about white leftists that they constantly rely on Jewish affirmation for their worldview, especially concerning Islam, the Levant and West Asia? It says they can be separated into the category of naïfs and cowards, or outright collaborators. The first category need to shape up if they're going to be useful in the days and nights ahead. The second category must be outed and face the consequences.

But I welcome the evolution of Comrade Gann's thinking, which is testament to his desire for knowledge. Unlike others on the British Left, Comrade Gann has striven to understand the genocide and the war by going to the source: the statements, daily battlefield updates and speeches and writings of figures and movements in the Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance.

As I have always said, there is no way to understand West Asia (or the world as it is, really) without these invaluable sources. In the coming days, I will again be pointing to more useful sources of information concerning the Zionist war for global hegemony, in which the Levant in its totality is sought by Zionist militants as their territorial operating base.

https://nitter.poast.org/Tracking_Power/status/1847984469472325657#m