The current Israeli genocide of Palestinians offers lessons. Most of the medical associations in the U.S. for example have not called for the very basic ceasefire. Those that have come around did so after MONTHS of internal struggles.

That little story yesterday about the Girl Scouts threatening to sue a chapter over a fund-raising effort to help Palestinian kids really drove home for me how institutions will always eventually reinforce oppression.

Girl Scouts threaten legal action over troop's fundraiser for children in Gaza

“We are all grieving. We literally couldn’t muster the energy to sell cookies,” Nawal Abuhamdeh said. But the Girl Scouts said members can't do a fundraiser that represents “partisan politics.”