The leaps of logic, fanciful facts and improbable pivots in this piece are breathtaking, but they all land with a thud on one, and always the same one, identity, ideology and entity: Jewish, Zionist, Israel. Would that these questions be posited upon some other, ‘other.’ Would that the welcoming multi-striped spectrum of CDM’s new world-without-borders not be reduced to the black and white binaryism in only one context: Israel and Palestine. Israel, imposed nation state; Palestine, benign historic homeland. Zionism, racist colonialist movement; Palestinianism, righteous national liberation movement (just don’t look). Jews, invading, warmongering oppressors; Arabs, passive indigenous victims. The disingenuous stunts in this piece are worthy of a gold medal, and a fake one at that, too.
Clearly, the DMC folks (and their JVP cover) just don’t get it: that their hyper-discriminatory double standard, and demonization, at best, falls a hairbreadth short of, yes, ANTI-SEMITISM. And for all their contortions, their most impressive trick is an upside down victim pose with a fundraiser to lick their self-inflicted wounds. https://www.youcaring.com/chicagodykemarchcollective-863410