Disclaimer: not the real Dr. Alan L. Hart

Do you not understand what the word native mean? Do you think it's okay to murder Palestinians and starve children to death because you some guy from Poland made Aliyah and now he thinks he's "native"

There are literal converts who will go to Israel and steal land from Palestinians. There is constantly settler violence happening against Palestinians

Land back is also when you destroy millions of olive trees since 1967 and kill Palestinian farmers who have been taking care of this land for generations

I read this column by Chris Hedges that I wanted to share.

He makes a great argument about how Zionists have weaponized the holocaust and transformed it into an industry that uses it to justify the actions of Israel instead of using it to learn from history.

I agree with how he points out the fact that Holocaust institutions and scholars have largely failed to condemn the genocide in Gaza and turned "Never Again" into "Never again for Jews"

One of the most grotesque things about the reaction to Khamenei’s assassination was watching Americans immediately pivot into fantasising about a “secular Iran” or a “free Iran” before the blood had even dried.

Not mourning the dead. Not acknowledging the 160 schoolgirls killed. Not reckoning with the fact that this violence was inflicted on actual human beings. Just instantly launching into imperial wish-fulfilment: maybe NOW Iran can become the version of the country WE want it to be.

And it revealed something deeply ugly about how Americans engage with the rest of the world politically. Entire countries only exist to them as symbols in their own ideological narratives. Iran is not a real place full of people with complicated political histories, internal movements, contradictions, factions, and trauma. It becomes a blank screen for western projection: oppressed women waiting for western liberation, secular democracy waiting to be “unlocked,” grateful citizens waiting to be saved through bombs and assassinations.

It is such a profoundly unserious and anti-intellectual way to understand politics. People genuinely talk about regime collapse like they are discussing a season finale instead of the destabilisation of an 90+ million person country with enormous ethnic, religious, regional, and geopolitical complexity. They do not study history. They do not learn from Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, or literally any other intervention where western fantasies about liberation produced mass death and instability. They reduce politics to aesthetics: “religious government bad, secular government good,” as though societies can simply be traumatically shocked into becoming western liberal democracies overnight.

But more than stupidity, it was the speed of the dehumanisation that was horrifying. Americans could not even pause their fantasies long enough to process the bloodshed THEY were celebrating. The deaths themselves became secondary to the imagined outcome. The massacre was reframed as potentially “worth it” if it created the Iran they wanted to see.

That is the logic of empire in its purest form: other people’s suffering becomes acceptable, even exciting, if it can be turned into political transformation desirable to the west.

And the sickest part is how casually this mindset appears. People say these things like they are discussing sports trades or fictional worldbuilding, completely detached from the reality that the “birth” of their ideal secular state would come through terror, mourning, orphaned children, destroyed families, and mass instability.

I know it’s petty at this point, but I genuinely despise tumblr/bluesky liberal Zionists like afurioushawk and short-wooloo. Like, I’m sorry, LBJ a good president and good man?! Deregulation and Shah of Iran stooge Carter? Crime bill Clinton?! Knowing that this person is a Star Wars blogger, they probably think Nixon started the Vietnam War, like most liberals, as Lucas based Palpatine off Nixon. Nixon and Kissinger are burning in hell for their crimes against Vietnam, Chile, Cambodia and Laos, but Nixon didn’t start the war, his two democratic predecessors, JFK and LBJ, along with his old boss that is treated as the good republican by liberals, Eisenhower, started it. My Lai occurred under LBJ and he and JFK propped up genocidal dictatorships in Brazil, Greece and Indonesia in the name of anti communism.

That person screenshotted above is known for crying racism at any criticism of their favorite fictional characters, the Jedi order, because Lucas used eastern philosophy when crafting them but they are fine with real Asians being slaughtered as long as a democrat does it. I swear these people don’t study history because if they did, they wouldn’t be liberals. Liberal revisionism treats the Vietnam War as a well intentioned mistake and not one of the many acts of imperialist violence America committed. I used to own this book, The Spitting Image, that examined the way the US rewrote the Vietnam narrative as a noble cause and the spat on veteran story that’s used to vilify anti war sentiment, which is still relevant with the Free Palestine Movement being deemed antisemitic by liberals.

One parallel between the 60s and now is Biden and LBJ being terrible people and racist imperialist scumbags who have millions of liberals defending them while they left in disgrace. Trump and Nixon are/were POS but Biden and LBJ were so bad that they created the material conditions that elected them. Not unlike how liberals and Never Trumpers co-opted the anti Trump sentiment, democrats only got on board with the anti war movement when Nixon was elected. RFK sr, who himself wasn’t great for wiretapping MLK and attempting to assassinate Castro, took a lot of heat for running against LBJ and the war in the 1968 primaries. We weren’t even allowed to have primaries last year which is why we got stuck with Harris as the candidate.

Democrats only supported civil rights legislation because the USSR called America on its hypocrisy of promoting itself as the “free world” while oppressing its nonwhite citizens. Carter was terrible, and his humanitarian image is a false cover for his blood soaked legacy. Same with Gerald Ford’s legacy as a nice guy. He was proto Reagan on economics, being the first neoliberal president who supported deregulation, and Clinton would continue that by cutting welfare programs and passing the crime bill. Not to mention JFK, his brother Ted, Biden and Clinton all having sexual harassment allegations against them but only Trump’s are called out by the liberals who attack Palestinians and leftists for the false r*pe accusations on October 7th.

This is just proof that these liberals only care about what happens in the United States and don’t care if the president is a bloodthirsty monster, as long as they’re a democrat who makes mild concessions to western queer rights. They don’t care about brown people being bombed and slaughtered as they will shout down victims of America with their Russian bots talking point. They defend Obama not shutting down Guantánamo and drone striking the ME while weaponizing anti black racism accusations at critics of him and Harris. They act as if the democratic presidents have no control over getting legislation passed and act as if leftists are dumb and don’t understand how congress works yet treat Trump as the Antichrist who can do whatever he wants.

Afurioushawk is straight up dishonest about the left, lumping in actual Marxists with socdems like Bernie and Mamdani and lying about what we stand for. Like all liberals, he’s obsessed with claiming the left treats revolution akin to the Christian rapture and complains we haven’t started it yet. Him defending Harris imprisoning people reeks of transmisogyny as he claims the left is mad about her locking up “r*pists”. Harris, despite what liberals insist, very much put trans women in men’s prisons which got them killed in some cases and denied them treatment. Liberals will cry “purity testing” at people against genocide and bigotry and are violently Islamophobic to the uncommitted movement, who they blame for Harris’ loss. For more proof of these people’s transmisogyny and willful ignorance I’ll just leave these here for you to see: