The 'normalisation' of trade and diplomatic relations between Israel and the surrounding Arab states has gone a long way to freeing both Israel and the US from any fear of significant real-world consequences for Israel’s wholesale slaughter.
The spread of student encampments in solidarity with Palestine is far from the first global wave of radicalism. What can we learn from the past few weeks – and from previous waves of struggle?
To drive a whole people out of their land—to turn it into something akin to the Zionist myth of Palestine, supposedly “a land without a people for a people without a land”—requires many things. Most obviously, it requires the killing and terrorising of Palestinian people on a colossal scale.
