YW
Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Reader) @SOAS, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant. Menasky
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Bashir Abu Manneh writes against the celebration of Hamas by some Western intellectuals. jacobin.com/2024/04/gaza...
The Palestinian Resistance Isn’t a Monolith
As Palestinians reckon with the genocide being inflicted on them and their prospects for national liberation, it does them a disservice to flatten their political diversity and complex ongoing debates...
Seems like a largely reasonable take, thank you for linking to this article!
Thanks for linking to this
Resistance movements being hijacked by their most oppressive/authoritarian elements is an unfortunate pattern in history. Russia in 1917, Iran in 1979, Algeria, Zimbabwe, Vietnam...it's distressing to think about the same thing happening in Palestine.
YW
Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Reader) @SOAS, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant. Menasky
4.1k followers297 following2.5k posts