The ruling class is seizing on the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers to criminalize the movement for Palestine and the Left. We must denounce these reactionary attacks but also be clear that individual violence sets us back and is no substitute for mass, collective action.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31266787

James Dennis Hoff
May 26, 2025

"Although it seems highly likely, even to the State Department, that Rodriguez acted entirely alone and on his own initiative, this hasn’t stopped the mainstream media, the Trump administration, or the Israeli government from attempting to use the shooting to silence its critics, sanctify and romanticize the lives of the victims (a privilege denied to the more than 60,000 people murdered by Israel in Gaza), and to actively propagate the lie that the movement for Palestine is a violent and antisemitic threat to domestic peace. "