It's easy to overlook the immense amount of ideological work that is required to get someone to see a boycott as a form of resistance that has gone too far and to see carpet bombing as an unremarkable part of the status quo.

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I would suggest this is a place where racism, as a foundational ideological structure, proves its utility. By providing a background field, roughly with Israel as a whitecivilized subject, it reduces the ideological work to team-recognition rather than specific justification of events.