#hate as a reaction to oppression vs hate as a reaction to paranoia. one is human the other is always a deflection from the legitimate threat | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

hussyknee · 5 months

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"We don't hate Jews and fight them because they are Jews. Jews are people of a religion, and we are people of a religion. We love all people of different religions. My brother even if he is my brother and he is a Muslim—if he steals my house and kicks me out, I will resist him."

— Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin, founder of Hamas.

#yes the 1988 charter is very fundie islamic and uses an antisemitic hadith. it has been changed #but you cannot possibly treat antisemitism as something separate from the geo-political character of the situation #hate as a reaction to oppression vs hate as a reaction to paranoia. one is human the other is always a deflection from the legitimate threat #there's really no point asking colonizers to feel the suffering of the colonized #or to treat them as human beings who wouldn't make these choices if anything else had ever worked #none of the people criticising armed revolt and suicide attacks consider how intolerable the occupation must be to prefer death #how armed rebellion is the choice made between dying a victim and dying a fighter #i am literally the last person to advocate for armed rebellion until and unless every other option is exhausted #the same value for human life that makes violence the last resort must embrace violence when it is the last resort #decolonization #free palestine #hamas #glory to the resistance #knee of huss

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