Electricity protests in Gaza: Hamas suppresses the working-class

Palestine is a lose-lose scenario for leftists.

Yeah, but that won't stop most of them from taking a frothing side for the Palestinians

Got snapped into oblivion at my universities Occupy back when that was a thing because I said that in a demand to not raise tuition we shouldn't put "divest from Israel" (I lost)

Divestments were what worked in South Africa, but I doubt they'd work in Israel.

I thought what worked in South Africa was a consumer boycott by their own blacks, which caused the economy to freeze?

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Mossad agents that think all leftists are as easy to distract as Trump voters

Come on man, even tankies are better than this Nazi filth.

A classic tactic for legitimizing imperialism is to foster the growth and popularity of unsympathetic fringe politics by desperate people with no one else to go to.

See: ISIS

Divestments played a huge role internationally, but yes, the main source of resistance were the black South Africans themselves who were rioting all the time.

Compare that to the Palestinians today who barely fight at all.

The bigger difference is that blacks were the majority in SA, which made it dependent on them. Muslims are a minority in Israel, and largely unimportant to its operation, especially in the Palestinian Territories. Which is what leaves me scratching my head at Israel's refusal to just go for the two-state solution and wash their hands of them.

Because the TSS would require large numbers of Israelis be evacuated from E. Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, etc. The TSS is pretty much dead anyway. I could imagine Israel annexing most of the settlements (including EJ) while Palestinian cities like Ramallah and Naboulous just get given to Jordan.