Pam Abbott 🇵🇸🌎🏳️⚧️ retweetledi
The most dangerous thing about antisemitic conspiracy theory in a conversation about genuine imperialism is not only that it's morally wrong.
It is that it is strategically catastrophic for the people it claims to be defending.
When the explanation for Palestinian suffering is "Jewish power" rather than American strategic interest, you have just told every Palestinian solidarity movement to organize against the wrong target.
You have turned a winnable political argument: end U.S. military aid, enforce international law, apply the same standards to Israeli conduct that are applied to other U.S. allies, into an unwinnable ethnic confrontation.
You have alienated every potential Jewish ally, of whom there are many, who oppose the occupation on their own moral and political grounds.
You have handed the Israeli regime exactly the framing it needs to convert a political critique into an accusation of bigotry, which it then uses to shut down every legitimate conversation.
The conspiracy theory does not help Palestinians.
It protects the system that harms them by making the system's critics look like bigots.
Whether that's the intent or not, that's the function.
The Palestinian movement has always known this.
Their most serious thinkers, Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, analyzed Israeli policy through colonialism, imperial power, and U.S. strategic backing.
Not as an ethnic conspiracy.
Because they were trying to win.
Not just to be angry.
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