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‘Liberals in the US and their liberal Zionist analogues in Israel serve as propagandists for white supremacy in the US and Israel, providing a "modern", "tolerant" and "diverse" facade for a fundamentally racist system.’ 1/ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/25/black-lives-matter-and-lessons-palestine
2/ ‘Liberals persistently shift the discussion away from a systemic analysis of the state's daily displays of violence to a focus on isolated events and perceived civility of revolutionary tactics,
3/ ‘conditioning their allyship on commitments to non-violence and respect for state representations and commodities.
4/ ‘Protests falling for this trap are quickly co-opted by liberals and their associated politicians with pie-in-the-sky promises of reform, resulting in net losses for the left.
5/ ‘When acts of resistance are limited to non-violent displays, while the far more substantial and pervasive systemic violence is ignored and excused, retaliatory and often defensive acts at the hands of protesters are vilified, resulting in dangerous reactionary precedents.’
