Warning: Cynicism
I am a part of a left org that has been putting efforts into showing support for Palestine. A lot of demos, speaking at city council meetings, pressuring agencies to support a ceasefire, etc.
I’m considering bringing it up to comrades that maybe this has run its course. The IDF has been moving South and is now in Rafah. The only thing the US has done is issue “concerns” that have been ignored; the US has not stopped funding the war. How much destruction is there left that we as American activists are even trying to prevent?
Tell me I’m wrong. I want to be wrong. I just see comrades putting their efforts into this for emotional and not practical reasons at this point.
Our activism predictably has very little effect on the decisions of our imperialist leaders.
What our activism has done is shatter the narrative that upholds peoples’ allegiance to empire. Moreso than any other time in my life has an event created more communists and anarchists out of Western liberals. That isn’t really going to help the people of Gaza in this moment, sure, but imperialist days are definitely numbered now.
I’ve had 3 siblings go from libs to socialists over this. All the things I had been telling them for years that they kind of just nodded along to and then forgot finally clicked all at once