The North American group Crimethinc, which unites a motley group of
adherents of post-modernist and "post-left" "anarchism", has becomeinfamous for its support of various bourgeois, democratic, nationalist
and other movements. Recently, comrades from the telegram channel "Voice
of Anarchists" published an article criticizing another "masterpiece" of
crimesinkers - a justification of the clerical fascists from Hamas. ----
Crime against thinking, or the disease of nationalism in the anarchist
movement (Response to CrimethInc article on the Arab-Israeli conflict)
About two months ago, the well-known American anarchist collective
"CrimethInc" (which, by the way, supported the war in Ukraine and began
to actively popularize the BOAC ( https://t.me/voiceofanarchists/982 )
to an English-speaking audience ( https://t.me/ExWorkers/2524?single ))
released an article in honor of the anniversary of the October 7
massacre ( https://t.me/ExWorkers/2574 ), in which... he called Hamas a
"national liberation movement" from which "we have no right to demand
purity in the course of the struggle", and anarchists who refuse to
support Islamist terrorists and call for a "war of classes, not nations"
were declared "stupid class reductionists" and "dogmatists".
They did not hesitate to translate their libel into a number of foreign
languages and post it on their Telegram channel next to posts containing
the slogan "All cops are bastards" (apparently all except Hamas ones,
otherwise, apparently, you could be branded a "damned class reductionist").
This article is simply nationalist propaganda disguised as "liberal
analysis", with which they try to justify crimes against peace and
humanity through rather hypocritical manipulations, hushing up
"inconvenient" facts, and sometimes just outright lies.
We must also note with great regret that this shameful article from one
of the most popular anarchist collectives in the modern USA, although
taken to the point of absurdity (mainly due to its extreme stupidity,
hypocrisy and cannibalism), is still a very indicative phenomenon for
the modern world anarchist movement with its support of endless
"national liberation" movements.
Unfortunately, this also applies to individual members of the IWA. After
all, with all due respect to this organization as a whole (including its
Spanish section) and its internationalist position, it is very
unpleasant to see how individual members of regional branches of the
CNT-AIT go to their rallies with national Palestinian flags (
https://t.me/cnt_ait/2547?single ).
Alas, to our great regret, nationalism is now a very serious disease of
the anarchist movement, which will have to be seriously combated on the
"intellectual front"
Source: https://t.me/voiceofanarchists/1227
How to justify massacre?
CrimethInc's main line of justification for the October 7 Hamas attack
is that it "didn't come out of nowhere" - a literal carbon copy of the
Russian pro-war cliche "Where have you been for 8 years?" This begs the
logical question: how does the mere fact of a smoldering conflict
justify crimes against peace and humanity by the Putin regime or the
Hamas regime?
Moreover, when talking about this conflict, CrimethInc often uses not
only manipulation, but also outright and rather absurd lies.
For example, the authors of the article call the Arab-Israeli war of
1948 "a Zionist attack on Palestine"! As if they do not know the
well-known historical facts about who exactly started the war then, by
rejecting the UN project to create two states in Palestine.
They also talk about the Nakba and the expulsion of hundreds of
thousands of Palestinian Arabs (which was indeed a terrible tragedy and
an unforgivable crime), but in the entire article not a word was said
about the hundreds of thousands of Arab Jews who were expelled:
- About the pogroms in Baghdad[1], Cairo[2][3], Tripoli[4][5], Aden[6],
Aleppo[7], Manama[8], Oujda and Jerada[9].
- About state repression against Jews on ethnic grounds by Arab regimes,
which included discriminatory anti-Semitic laws, arrests, confiscations
of property and deportations[10][11][12].
- About the dissemination of anti-Semitic propaganda by Arab regimes,
including the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Arabic and Holocaust
denial[13][14].
- Finally, about the fact that as a result of such a policy, there are
practically no Jews left in Arab countries except for a few elderly
people[15].
But why talk about such "trifles"! After all, to justify war and
nationalism, only one side must be presented as the victim!
There are also obvious contradictions in the article:
For example, at first the authors write directly that Palestinian groups
used suicide bombings against Israeli citizens during the Intifada, and
then, just a few paragraphs later, they put the word "terror" in
relation to Palestinian groups in quotation marks...
Apparently, suicide bombings (including, by the way, bombings using
child suicide bombers[16]) in nightclubs[17], discos[18], cafes[19],
restaurants[20], train stations[21], buses[22], universities[23],
shopping malls[24], markets[25], synagogues[26], as well as other mass
murders of civilians by means of indiscriminate shootings[27], knife
attacks[28]and bulldozer rams[29]are no longer, in the opinion of
CrimethInc, acts of terrorism!
They then go on to describe the Hamas regime as authoritarian and
conservative, and then claim that its structure "represents a somewhat
democratic model of top-down governance" (to what extent can an Islamist
dictatorship that has not held elections in Gaza since 2007 be
"democratic"? Ask CrimethInc yourself, as we are not so steeped in
"decolonial theory" as to understand such nonsense).
At the same time, CrimethInc says that one should not "demonize" Hamas
and "lump all Islamists together" to avoid falling into the "dangerous
Islamophobic narrative" that there is no difference between Hamas and ISIS.
Well, let us allow ourselves to note that for us personally, no
Islamists are acceptable, and for us there really is no significant
difference between the massacre of Yazidis by ISIS and the massacre of
Israelis by Hamas.
In describing the attack itself on October 7, the authors claim that the
massacre and hostage-taking were committed only by "some" participants.
Although what "some" participants can we even talk about, given:
- that the overwhelming majority of the victims of the attack (about
70%) were civilians;
- that the killings, as stated in the arrest warrant for the Hamas
leaders issued by the International Court, took place in different
places and were massive and coordinated[30];
- that the terrorists, as the authors of the article themselves pointed
out, filmed the massacre on GoPro body cameras (how in the minds of the
authors of the article could this have happened without the knowledge of
the terrorist leaders themselves!), and the bodies of the victims of the
massacre were then publicly mocked by the raging crowds on the streets
of Gaza[31];
- that Hamas has systematically carried out attacks on Israeli civilians
since its inception;
- that finally 240 legal experts, including lawyers and academics,
declared the Hamas attack on October 7 a crime of genocide[32].
At the same time, the authors of the article call Israel's crimes in
Gaza genocide, but they no longer call Hamas' crimes in Israel genocide.
While they mention the indiscriminate shelling from Israel, they fail to
mention that Hamas' Qassam rockets are also unguided and kill civilians[33].
While they mention the "flurry of pro-Israel fakes," they make no
mention of the pro-Palestinian fakes: for example, how pro-Hamas sources
showed photographs of the Syrian civil war, passing them off as "the
murder of the children of Gaza"[34]or the entire movement of October 7
deniers[35].
But, unfortunately, CrimethInc does not stop at such hushing up and
manipulation... Further, the authors of the article simply directly
engage in justifying the massacre:
"From the Haitian Revolution and Nat Turner's slave revolt to the Oran
massacre in Algeria, every decolonial war of liberation, every slave
revolt, every ghetto uprising has always been associated with
atrocities, often directed against civilians."
But for CrimethInc, this is not a reason to be disillusioned with the
national wars in Haiti and Algeria, with the murder of several thousand
random people and the establishment of authoritarian regimes (what
CrimethInc calls "decolonial liberation"), but a way to justify the
massacre and war by Hamas, stating:
"We can mourn the atrocities, but we cannot condemn the ghetto revolt,
we cannot condemn the slave revolt."
Apparently, by "slaves" they mean the leaders of Hamas, who directly
organized the terrorist attack on October 7 and who are also
millionaires, owning mines in Sudan and skyscrapers in the Emirates[36].
At the same time, from the very beginning of the article they claim that
41 thousand Palestinians, including 16 thousand children, were killed in
Gaza, without mentioning that the official Hamas statistics do not
differentiate between non-combatants and liquidated militants, and also
actively use child soldiers[37], who... are also officially recorded as
"children of Gaza killed by Israel."
The latter fact is especially noteworthy in connection with CrimethInc's
statements that "we have no right to blame Hamas for the suffering of
the Palestinian population", given also that during the October 7
massacre, the terrorists killed... including Bedouin Arabs, whose clans
even announced a reward for the heads of Hamas members[38]. The authors
of the article then call for solidarity with the "heroic Palestinian
resistance in Gaza", without mentioning a word about the rallies of Gaza
residents for an end to hostilities and for the release of Israeli
hostages[39].
CrimethInc itself, by the way, calls the demands for the release of the
hostages "brazen Zionist claims."
Finally, CrimethInc stoops to such chauvinistic rants:
"Jews and Arabs are not equal, even when they work in the same jobs."
What a disgrace..
What a disgrace...
Well, if being against chauvinism, massacres, hostage taking, Islamist
dictatorship, and advocating for the liberation and dignity of all
workers, regardless of their nationality, means being a "class
reductionist" and a "dogmatist", then call us "class reductionists" and
"dogmatists". At least it will be much better than being the idiots and
pseudo-anarchist cannibals of CrimethInc.
Source:
https://telegra.ph/Crime-against-thinking-ili-Bolezn-nacionalizma-v-anar...
[1]- https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-farhud
[2]-
https://www.jta.org/archive/anti-jewish-riots-in-egypt-synagogues-burned-in-cairo-six-killed-in-alexandria
[3]-
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2013-06-20/ty-article/.premium/1948-cairo-bomb-blast-kills-22-jews/0000017f-f6b5-d318-afff-f7f778e30000
[4]-
https://www.jta.org/archive/74-jews-killed-183-injured-in-anti-jewish-riots-in-tripoli-jewish-quarters-looted
[5]- https://www.google.com/amp/s/israeled.org/tripoli/amp/
[6]-
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/murder-looting-burning-remembering-the-aden-riots-of-1947/amp/
[7]-
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20581831.2024.2373660#d1e172
8]-
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2022.2128720#abstract
[9]- https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/oujdaDjeradaSrchFrm.html
[10]-
https://webcitation.org/67DjjMP0x?url=http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=63211
[11]-
https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/09/thank-god-there-are-almost-no-jews-syria-now-lela-gilbert/
[12]-
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-expulsion-that-backfired-when-iraq-kicked-out-its-jews/
[13]-
https://web.archive.org/web/20030705140049/http://adl.org/anti_Semitism/arab/Arab_Anti-Semitism.pdf
[14]-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601417.html
[15]-
https://web.archive.org/web/20120213230126/http://www.hsje.org/forcedmigration.htm
[16]-
https://www.hrw.org/news/2004/11/01/occupied-territories-stop-use-children-suicide-bombings
[17]- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4299609.stm
[18]- https://youtu.be/BaaT7vdSXrI?si=Y8hFukTqs1-Ao1Cl
[19]-
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zU8eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XccEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1240,2952689
[20]-
https://web.archive.org/web/20090415134709/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077927.html
[21]-
https://web.archive.org/web/20021220085140/http://info.jpost.com/C002/Supplements/CasualtiesOfWar/2001_09_09.html
[22]-
https://web.archive.org/web/20120402143640/http://info.jpost.com/C002/Supplements/CasualtiesOfWar/2002_11_21.html
[23]- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3111001.stm
[24]- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/05/israel
[25]-
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930185535/http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2002/Terrorist%2Bresponsible%2Bfor%2Bplanning%2BApril%2B12%2Bsuicid.htm?DisplayMode=print
[26]-
https://www.google.com/amp/s/meduza.io/amp/news/2024/08/19/v-tel-avive-vozle-sinagogi-proizoshel-vzryv-politsiya-rassleduet-popytku-terakta
[27]- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60902330
[28]-
https://www.haaretz.com/2015-10-03/ty-article/death-toll-rises-to-2-in-jerusalems-old-city-terror-attack/0000017f-e545-dc7e-adff-f5eda5090000
[29]- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7485022.stm
[30]-
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-icc-said-arrest-warrants-against-gallant-netanyahu-hamas-leader-deif-2024-11-21/
[32]-
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4lrsDRg3HbJqoAf0BlAe7BHJuzpQB_Le27Iureq9vpCoBkw/viewform
[34]-
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/old-syria-photograph-used-alongside-real-claims-palestinian-child-deaths-2023-10-17/
[35]-
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/denial-and-distortion-hamas-led-october-7-attack-overview-false-narratives
[36]- https://t.me/michael_shraibman/3631
[37]- https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-780613
[38]-
https://www.timesofisrael.com/osama-abu-assa-36-bedouin-family-offers-1m-reward-to-find-killers/
[39]-
https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2024/02/02/news/gaza-children-protest-against-hamas/19512.html
https://aitrus.info/node/6275
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