Pinned
How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
Barnett R. Rubin
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Barnett R. Rubin
@BRRubin
Former academic, occasional undiplomatic diplomat. Close to the sun in the day, near to the moon at night. Opinions my own, retweets not always endorsements.
New York, NY
Joined January 2009
- Nakba denial must become as stigmatized and marginalized as Holocaust denial.
- I have no reason to post this. I know it won't make any difference, but I cannot contain the anger and loathing that I feel for the governments of Israel and the United States and all others that are facilitating the genocide in Gaza, including writers justifying it.
- Students feel very unsafe at this university.
- I have visited Auschwitz-Birkenau twice without seeing or hearing anything that justifies the displacement, disenfranchisement, or massacre of Palestinians. Quite the contrary.Why I am a Zionist.
- Replying to @BRRubinI don't see how the " international human rights regime" or the U.N. Charter survive this. The most powerful actors in the international system have shown with great clarity and precision that there are some people they don't consider human. I don't know what to do with this.
- The current war may spell the end of any credibility the U.S. and West have left to promote or defend human rights and international humanitarian law. It seems they can be suspended for the self-defense of those with whom we feel solidarity at the expense of those we dehumanize.
- I understand what Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich are doing. I understand what Hamas is doing. I understand anti-government demonstrations in Israel. I understand, as much as I can, the agony of Gaza. For the life of me, I cannot understand the actions of Biden and Blinken.
- This may be the most shameful statement I have ever seen from an American president. Not even a hypocritical genuflection toward regretting 24,000 Palestinian deaths. Statement from President Joe Biden Marking 100 Days of Captivity for Hostages in Gaza whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
- So the world's richest country has decided to rob the world's poorest country in the name of justice. A fitting end to the War on Terror.
- I have had several discussions here where people deny that Israel is a colonial state and claim that Arabs are against the Jews because they are antisemites. I would like to call a witness with impeccable credentials, the well-known postcolonial theorist, Vladimir Jabotinsky.
- By bombing the Houthis in Yemen, the U.S. is once again trying to solve a problem it does not understand by using massive violence against people about whose politics, history, culture, and values it knows nothing. Apparently nothing will ever change this behavior.
- Replying to @KarenAttiahHe's angry because his precarious position at the top of the racial caste system, which is vital to his sense of self worth, is being threatened, and he has nothing with which to replace it but anger at those who are challenging it.
- Many Arabs and Muslims cannot vote for Biden; they won’t sacrifice their self-respect for self interest. They are unable to humiliate themselves by voting for a man who cheered on the slaughter of >15,000 Arabs and Muslims. It is a question of human dignity, which has no price.
