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The recent Zionist attacks on Rafah signaled to the world that the
imperialists are in lock step as they cut a hideous path of genocide
through Palestine. U.$. imperialism has given the nod and wink to forge
ahead as we all watch, as we all mourn.
The imperialists have circled the wagons despite the world responding
in disgust. The people should also come together, all sectors here in
the internal semi-colonies also known as the United Snakes.
Of special interest is two sectors who defy the pull of capitalist
bribes. This defiance arrives from different paths and yet our party
feels they are both anti-imperialist in nature. These sectors in the
United $tates are the prison movement – made up of prisoners, former
prisoners and outside supporters, and the other sector being the student
movement – being the students on school campuses across the country.
These two sectors have the least to lose and the most to win when it
comes to revolution. Both bring that passion and fire needed to ignite
the flame of real resistance and thus should find ways to resist in
tandem.
A free Palestine, like a free Aztlán, will only happen when
anti-imperialism is exercised in a united front between all oppressed
and allies. The world sees that Palestine is deserving of peace, for it
is life while Israel signifies death!
The student encampments that were attacked by the state and their
goons were a glimmer of hope that the youth here in these false U.$.
borders hold on to their humynity in the face of repression. Standing up
for the national liberation of Palestine, putting their freedom and
their lives on the line so that the Israeli settler colonialists stop
the attacks on Palestine.
Chican@s stand with Palestine because we are also colonized by
imperialists. The Chican@ nation stands with the students who dare to
struggle. Imprisoned Aztlán awaits our student allies in the
concentration kamps so we can build and solidify our struggle with a
common political enemy.
The Chican@ movement struggles against imperialism too, we stand up
to settler colonialism, and genocide as well. Imperialism is what
creates the conditions where kids
in cages is normalized whether we are talking about in U.$. prisons
or Israeli prisons.
We have a moral obligation to stand against the genocide in
Palestine. We are obligated as conscious people to stand with oppressed
people always.
Everyone has been watching the atrocities happening on the news and
the genocide going down in the Middle East. Israel seems to think that
Palestinian lives mean nothing. Many are shocked at how the news
describes the situation as if Palestine is in conflict when it’s clear
that Israel has reduced Palestine to rubble.
Not one persyn here has felt Israel is in the right. It is clear as
day that a genocide is happening and that U.$. tax payers are complicit
as the U.$. sends billions of dollars to Israel every year.
Every time the news comes on talking about Israel, one of the
prisoners here yells, “Yo Israel, get the fuck out of Palestine!”
Everyone claps in agreement. Some are bewildered as to why the U.$. is
enabling genocide and the more conscious are explaining the history of
Amerika and what it has done to this continent and beyond for the
dollar. Humyn lives are worth more than profit and the courageous
students in their encampments are proving that! To be arrested in a time
of genocide is an honorable thing to do.
Greetings, I want to extend my support and appreciation for you
courageous students who stand against the tyranny of genocide.
Your acts and resistance have been well-received around the world and
deeply appreciated by Palestinian refugees, as I seen it on the world
news, painted on the walls of the refugee camps: “Thank you American
students”.
Israel is not fighting Hamas, Israel is creating a Palestinian
genocide. The greatest hypocrisy in history, just as the Nazis did to
the Jews.
In prison we stand in solidarity with your good cause of saving
innocent lives.
Hip hop artist Macklemore released a song and music video, called
“Hind’s Hall”, unapologetically supporting the students fighting to stop
U.$. funding of genocide in Palestine. This is a unique statement that
we have not seen from Amerikan celebrities after over six months of
bombing and invasion.
Besides saying “fuck the police” and “free Palestine”, to the
question of voting for Biden, Macklemore says “fuck no” in this song.
This last point puts em ahead of the so-called Communist Party - U$A and
Revolutionary Communist Party - U$A, which have both implicitly and
explicitly campaigned for Democratic presidential candidates, including
Joe Biden. We’d say Macklemore is doing a better job of representing the
interests of the Third World proletariat on this point, than the
so-called communist parties. In the past Macklemore has sported an
Amerikan flag, and campaigned for the Democrats as well. But ey’s an
individual, and a rapper. We gotta expect a little more from a communist
party that is supposed to be a source of truth and to lead us to ending
oppression.
Of course, the MIM slogan has been “Don’t Vote, Organize!” So not
voting for Biden in itself isn’t the call for change; rather the
recognition of the need to make and change history ourselves instead of
casting a vote for this or that celebrity politician.
While it took 6 months and U.$. student protests for this song to
come out, it appears that Macklemore has been involved in the anti-war
movement since October when ey signed a statement supporting ceasefire.
Ey is also donating all proceeds to the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. So good for em, and it
is a good thing to use eir voice as a popular artist to reach more
people. We hope this cracks open the door for other more popular artists
who have been quiet on the genocide.
In the new song, Macklemore also asks “who gets the right to defend?
who gets the right to resistance?” flashing pictures from Ukraine and
answering that it has to do with skin pigment. This is a righteous
defense of the resistance in Palestine that is condemned as terrorism by
the same people chearleading the resistance in Ukraine as a natural
humyn right. However, skin color is a superficial explanation. Though
racism, orientalism, and anti-Arab sentiment is a strong driving force
behind the average oppressor-nation Amerikkkan’s stance on Palestine,
ultimately the U.$.’s position derives not from disdain for certain skin
colors but rather from imperialism. Ukraine, and Zelensky, stand as a
junior partner to Amerikkka against their current greatest imperialist
enemy, Russia, while the potential of a freed Palestine poses a threat
to Amerikkkan and I$raeli imperialism in the Middle East.
Students at Columbia University occupied Hamilton Hall after the
university rejected most of their demands, including to divest from
weapons manufacturers. During the occupation, they renamed it “Hind’s
Hall” after Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed
by Israeli forces in Gaza City while trying to get assistance from the
Red Crescent Society after her family had been killed by an Israeli
attack.
I$rael’s war on Palestine is without a doubt a genocide.
There has been a groundswell of support from people around the world
that conclude that the settler state of I$rael needs to be brought to
justice and that Amerika has given the “greenlight” for the genocide to
ensue.
At a recent protest over I$rael bombing an Iranian consulate in
Syria, killing several Iranian military intelligence personnel, Hamas
responded with a statement saying among other things that Amerika has
given the green light for this bombing by not denouncing it. We would
agree and go further by stating that Amerika has green-lit genocide
since it first arrived here in Turtle Island over 500 years ago.
It strikes us as odd that the world would be shocked about Amerika
standing by in the face of the genocide happening to Palestine when
Chican@s, First Nations and New Afrikans know first hand that the United
$tates is not only a client but a pathfinder in the realm of genocidal
settlerism. We should remember it was Amerika who inspired the likes of
Hitler in honing his genocidal craft, an evaluation of evidence supports
our point.
In the mire of the oppression being rained down on Palestine,
especially with I$rael assassinating those it has targeted even in other
countries – or in embassies! – we just glean what lessons are available
as the world gets a bold example of what colonization looks like
today.
If we are in fact at the conclusion that Amerika – who gives I$rael
billions of aid each year – is giving a wink and a nod to assassinating
government officials of sovereign countries, it poses the question: how
might revolutionaries here in the imperialist center of the world
prepare and respond?
We should start by understanding that in today’s world genocide
arrives via stages of development by the imperialist agencies. These
stages are 1) Intelligence. 2) Analysis. 3) Logistics and 4) Operations.
What we are seeing happen is war plans, whether we are talking about the
streets of Gaza or the barrios of Califaztlan it all starts with
intel.
The oppressor nation identifies its threats and its assets – on the
ground or online. Because we are in the stage of building public opinion
here in the United $tates we can be vulnerable to data mining that is
employed by agencies globally. Search bots that are known as “spiders”
search the internet 24/7 mining through open source material and all
public records to find any links to revolutionary data, i.e. people,
groups or theory. They snatch everything: Facebook posts, chat rooms,
blogs, news stories, financial records, visa applications, etc… which
can all be harvested quickly on a daily basis, programs like starlight
or spire can then sift, cross reference and separate non-essential
material while then targeting links that lead back to intended targeted
people or groups within the movement. In this way the state is able to
closely monitor not only a movement’s vanguard but anything that
metastasizes out of the movement as well, that is everything in its
realm of influence. Once data is compromised with the help of programs
like Analyst Notebook, it reveals the internal structure of an
organization and its international links as well. All of this intel
helps the oppressor nation develop its genocidal programs which not only
furthers its own interests but the interests of its allies like the
settler state of I$rael.
Here in the occupied territories that some call Amerika, the internal
semi-colonies have long known about Amerika’s stance on genocide.
Chican@s and other oppressed nations who languish in the prisons, in the
control units, and on Death Row overstand that Amerika green-lights
genocide. The Brown and Black people, gunned down every day by Amerikan
police know this as well. The Chican@ nation and other oppressed know
because our land and resources are occupied and controlled by the
capitalists who neutralize us when we threaten the occupation.
The aim of this article is to provide a brief summation of what Hamas
is as a movement. It will expand on the history
of Palestine written by a comrade in ULK 84. Both imperialist media
and revisionist propaganda create false narratives around Hamas,
oftentimes mistaking basic facts to suit their interests. It is
important to understand that Hamas is a movement and that over the
course of history has changed, likely changing as We speak. The primary
aim of this article is not to formulate an opinion on how communists
should approach Hamas or to speak over Palestinian and Arab analyses of
Hamas. Rather it is to point out the fundamental, but often obscured,
facts and history of the origins of Hamas and what it represents.
The Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions brings the
resistance together to coordinate a counter-attack against I$raeli
colonization on 7 October 2023. Ayman Nofal, senior commander in
Al-Qassam Brigades, the militant arm of Hamas. was a main leader in
unifying resistance for this counter-attack who died in 2023 soon after
the counter-attack.(1) The current war is not just between Hamas and
I$rael, but one between the entirety of Palestinian resistance against
I$rael for the national liberation of Palestine. Hamas is the largest
faction of the Palestinian resistance so an understanding of the
movement and its history is crucial for understanding the ongoing
struggle.
The origins,
emergence and development of Hamas
Hamas is an Arabic abbreviation for Islamic Resistance
Movement(Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya). The movement was founded in
December 1987 at the beginning of the First Palestinian Intifada. Before
Hamas there was the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which had a branch in
Gaza since 25 November 1946(founded this year to coincide with year 1366
of the Islamic calendar). The Muslim Brotherhood was non-confrontational
with I$rael, which led to criticism and division internally during the
1970s-1980s. Hamas was formed as a way to join the First Palestinian
Intifada(Uprising) without endangering the position of the Muslim
Brotherhood. Under the defense minister Yitzhak Rabin, the I$raeli
military adopted the so-called “iron fist” policy of violent repression:
it used live ammunition against unarmed protestors, jailed
demonstrators, and imposed punitive curfews and closures. This only
added fuel to the fire, escalating into a full scale intifada.(2) The
participation of Hamas in the First Palestinian Intifada was a major
success, leading it to become more than just an associated organization
of the Muslim Brotherhood.(3)
The origins of Hamas lie within the Muslim Brotherhood and the
Islamic Centre(Al-Mujamma’ al-Islami). The Islamic Centre was
established on 7 September 1973, by the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed
Ismail Hassan Yassin(Ahmed Yassin). It emerged out of the Muslim
Brotherhood, with it’s stated goals of being the independence of Muslim
lands from foreign occupation and establishment of an Islamic
sociopolitical system.(4) The rise of the Islamic movements in
Palestine, specifically in Gaza, only really took off after the First
Intifada. This started on 9 December 1987, in the Jabalia refugee camp
after an I$raeli truck driver collided with a civilian car, killing four
Palestinian workers. Palestinian resistance emerged in response, being
met with 80,000 I$raeli soldiers being deployed to crush it. Hamas
emerged specifically for the Muslim Brotherhood to engage in the First
Palestinian Intifada, beforehand militant struggle against I$rael by
Islamic movements in Palestine were scarce.
Palestinian fedayeen(freedom fighters) network was primarily united
under the Palestinian Liberation Organization(PLO) after the Six-Day
War, a war between I$rael and a coalition of Arab nations in 1967 which
led to I$rael attaining West Bank, Jerusalem, Sinai Peninsula and Gaza
Strip. The resistance was primarily led by the Palestinian Liberation
Front(PLF), Palestinian National Liberation Movement(Fatah), and Popular
Front for Liberation of Palestine(PFLP). In the end, it was harshly
repressed by I$rael with the death of Muhammad al-Aswad, known as
“Gaza’s Guevara,” on 9 March 1973, marking the end of the military
struggle. The failure of the Palestinian national movement marked a
major turning point in Palestine.(5)
The Muslim Brotherhood was spared this harsh repression and Ahmed
Yassin during this time led a variety of political activities and
creation of various social institutions. These were under the name of
the Islamic Centre, being recognized more formally on 7 September 1973,
when the I$raeli governor attended the Jawrat al-Shams mosque
inauguration. Later on, the Islamic University of Gaza, one of the first
universities in Gaza, was founded by the Islamic Centre. The
institutions and activities of the Islamic Centre played a major role in
its establishment, with the university becoming a major site of
recruitment for the Muslim Brotherhood. The Islamic Centre was
officially recognized as a charity in September 1979 by the I$raeli
occupation. The reason for I$rael’s benevolent tolerance toward the
Islamic Centre was to weaken the Palestinian national movement in
exchange for a more conciliatory Islamic alternative.
The Palestinian national movement was even further divided with the
PLO adopting the 10 Point Program which was the basis for the two-state
solution and drafting of peace with I$rael. The Front of the Palestinian
Forces Rejecting Solutions of Surrender was established in 1974 by a
coalition of communist and progressive nationalist organizations who
wanted to continue armed struggle. The PLO became more conciliatory
towards I$rael, and today it rules over the now I$raeli puppet
government called the Palestinian Authority. The 10 point program in its
content may have had some progressive demands, such as right for
displaced Palestinians to return and take back their homes. However, its
calls for peace with I$rael and usage in justifying and end to
resistance led to collaboration as we see today in the West Bank.(6)
In regard to social institutions, the main competition to the Islamic
Centre was the Palestine Red Crescent Society under Haidar Abdel-Shafi,
who was close with the PFLP. Specifically, Haidar was part of the Arab
Nationalist Movement which was started by one of the founders of the
PFLP, George Habash. The PFLP emerged directly out of the Arab
Nationalist Movement after the Six Day War in July 1967. The executive
committee of the Arab Nationalist Movement decided that the Palestine
Section should move toward armed struggle. Three commando groups merged,
the Revenge Youth, Heroes of Return, and the Palestine Liberation
Front(PLF) to announce the founding of the PFLP on December 11th, 1967.
Haidar Abdel-Shafi was both the founder and director of the Palestine
Red Crescent Society, which served as a bastion of Palestinian
nationalism in 1972.(7)
The PLO, Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Centre were dominated by
different sections of petty-bourgeois, national bourgeois and even
comprador elements. As a result, the PFLP was a major threat to the
projects of both groups given the revolutionary nationalist outlook that
the front upheld, rooted in the proletariat. The PFLP took heavily from
the Chinese and Vietnamese revolutionaries both in political and
strategic developments.(8) Also, the the front correctly identified the
enemies of Palestinian revolution as “Israel, the world Zionist
Movement, global imperialism and Arab reactionaries.” In contrast to the
other factions within Palestine, the front adopted a firmly dialectical
materialist outlook, one based in scientific analysis of material
reality with all its developments and changes.(9) This is what led to an
allied struggle against communism by the other factions, as the PFLP
presented a major threat to the PLO and Islamic movements. To note, the
PLO refers to the mainstream conciliatory section, as the PFLP was still
part of the PLO.
The co-founder of Palestinian National Liberation Movement(Fatah),
Assad Saftawi, was a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was
crucial in negotiations between the Islamic movement and Fatah in
Palestine. He was the pioneer of an anti-communist strategy and alliance
between the factions, running against Haidar Abdel-Shafi for leadership
of the Red Crescent Society with the support of the Islamic Centre.
After an overwhelming defeat, hundreds of protestors supportive of the
Islamic movements ransacked Red Crescent offices on 7 January 1980. The
protestors continued to attack cafés, cinemas, and drinking
establishments in the town center. The I$raeli authorities did not
intervene in response to the violent attacks against the Palestine Red
Crescent Society intentionally.(10)
Coming back to the Islamic University of Gaza, in 1981 there were
protests over the Islamic movement’s monopoly over the policies in the
university. The Islamic Centre decided to turn against its former
allies, the Palestinian National Liberation Movement. The I$raeli
authorities and the Islamic movement formed a strange coalition to end
the secular nationalist opposition in the university. The Islamic Bloc,
an offshoot of the Islamic Centre, won 51% of the votes in student
elections and were able to impose Islamic policies; from separate
entrances for women and men to the way in which certain ideas and
courses were taught.(11) It was reported in 1983 that the Islamic Centre
hired armed gangs to attack striking students and teachers. Later on,
certain Islamic dress standards among students were encouraged, with
women who refused to wear Hijabs being attacked for it. A further
bolstering of the Islamic movements against the national movements in
Palestine had ensued with the Islamic University of Gaza becoming a
bastion for the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Centre.(12)
On June 1984, sixty pistols and sub-machine guns hidden in Ahmed
Yasin’s mosque led to his arrest and sentencing to thirteen years in
prison. Even if the arms were primarily intended to intimidate other
Palestinian factions.(13) Yasin’s incarceration allowed his supporters
to wash him of all suspicions of collaboration with I$rael. The leader
was freed in May 1985 within the framework of a prisoner exchange
between Israel and the PFLP–General Command, a faction that emerged in
opposition to the PLO after it created it’s 10 Point Program, based in
Damascus. The Muslim Brotherhood remained non-confrontational despite
the repression against it and built up the Islamic Centre, with the
number of mosques doubling from 77 in 1967 to 150 in 1986. This
non-confrontational and passive stance was opposed by Fathi Shikaki, who
split off to form the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, inspired by the Iranian
Revolution. In response to the Islamic Jihad multiplying attacks against
I$rael, the Islamic center formed the Majd. It performed the function of
protecting the Islamic network from attacks and in suppression of what
was seen as social ills.(14) The priority remained in combating
oppositional factions within Palestine rather than I$rael.
On 9 December 1987, the First Palestinian Intifada began in the Gaza
Strip and quickly spread to the West Bank. The growing popularity of the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad led to an agreement within the Muslim
Brotherhood between the conservative old guard, supportive of a
non-confrontational approach to I$rael, made up mainly of urban
merchants petty-bourgeoisie and general upper petty-bourgeoisie, and the
younger generation of new activist cadres, pro-resistance, made up
mostly of lower petty-bourgeoisie and refugee camp petty-bourgeois
students. Hamas was created in December 1987 as a separate but
affiliated organization which joined the First Palestinian Intifada. It
was largely successful and began to attract a lot of sympathizers. The
post-1973 oil boom allowed for many neighboring Arab nations to back
Islamic movements across the region, including Hamas and the Islamic
Centre.(15)
The
Second Palestinian Intifada and liberation of Gaza
The PLO suffered major setbacks abroad, with the Black September in
Jordan, a period of major repression of the PLO there. It led them to be
deported and transferred to Lebanon. Later in 1982, the PLO was expelled
from Beirut to Tunisia. All of this led to the PLO, led by Fatah, to
seek out a diplomatic solution rather than pursuing armed struggle. The
Oslo Accords were signed later on in 1991 between I$rael and the PLO,
leading to the Palestinian Authority ruling over parts of the West Bank
and Gaza. Military collaboration between the Palestinian Authority and
I$rael had increased against the Islamic movement. The Palestinian
Authority allowed continued colonization and occupation.
On 28 September 2000, Ariel Sharon, a Likud party candidate for
I$rael, visited the Temple Mount, also known as Al-Haram Al-Sharif, an
area sacred to both Jews and Muslims, accompanied by over a thousand
security guards. He stated on that day, “the Temple Mount is in our
hands and will remain in our hands. It is the holiest site in Judaism
and it is the right of every Jew to visit the Temple Mount.” This led to
the start of the Second Palestinian Intifada, with Palestinian
resistance being carried out by the PLO, Hamas, and other factions. It
led to I$raeli settlement and occupation forces withdrawing from the
region after being ousted by the resistance in 2005.(15)
In January 2006, Hamas had won the elections in the Gaza Strip,
winning 72 out of 132 seats with 42.9% of the vote. I$rael and I$rael’s
imperialist backers enforced sanctions on the Hamas-led government soon
after. Just a year later, tensions rose between Fatah and Hamas, with
Hamas reigning victorious and expelling Fatah from Gaza in 2007 after
the Battle of Gaza. The government faced major issues, with the poverty
rate sharply rising to 65% by the end of 2006.(16)
The I$raeli blockade banned importation of raw industrial materials
and put a siege on Palestinian banks to create an artificial financial
crisis. Despite this and the rapidly deteriorating conditions, the
oppressor classes enjoyed great luxuries and had high levels of
consumption. This was especially the case of private tunnel dealers who
controlled a monopoly on prices. A large portion of workers in Palestine
found themselves in extreme poverty. There are two aspects to this,
internal and external, and the external blockade by I$rael was only the
external cause behind this.(17)
The origins of the tunnels were historically havens for both
smugglers and outlaws but also for freedom fighters. Before the Second
Palestinian Intifada the tunnels were primarily used for drug and gold
trafficking for high profits. Near the end of the year 2000 they became
primarily used for smuggling arms for the resistance factions.(18) After
the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, the regeneration and construction of
tunnels ensued in response to the siege. During this period, the main
lifeline for those in Gaza became these tunnels with an economy
centering around it. This led to a regression and neglect of the
development of a productive economy or sustainable development. It is
possible that during this time the primary class within Gaza was the
lumpen-proletariat and perhaps still is.
The number of tunnels increased from 20 in mid-2007 to up to 500 by
November 2008.(19) Some estimates by a variety of sources, from the
Hamas-led government, Egypt, and others, estimate higher. Regardless,
most of the tunnels belonged either to Hamas or its sympathizers. The
risks that workers face in the tunnels are immense and there is a
popular saying about the tunnels:
hundreds of tunnels deployed on the border, hundreds of young men
waiting to get involved in the game … write your will, you are facing
the unknown, but this is the land that you loved, roll up your shirt
sleeves, and be a man, you are now at a depth of 20 meters in the land
of Gaza, trust in God and finish your shift … 12 hours in hell, but
remember that hungry mouths awaiting you. Here, death is merciful and
quick … No pain… No white phosphorus … nor Israeli soldiers who might
use you as a human shield, it’s neither a prison here nor jail; here is
God and the darkness of the tunnel and breathing slowly till you
die(20)
Hamas is heavily dependent on the tunnel economy, estimated to make
more than $700 million annually. This economy is ultimately unproductive
and heavily dependent on exploitation, creating a class of private
tunnel owners and merchants who make up the leadership of Hamas today.
Ismail Haniyeh, the current leader of Hamas, is a millionaire from the
money made from his ownership and respective taxation on trade through
tunnels. The specific class relations will not be commented on here, but
this inquiry into the tunnel economy is done specifically to point out
its importance to Hamas. The large national bourgeoisie who own these
tunnels and the petty-bourgeoisie merchants who conduct trade within
them make up the class basis of Hamas today. This leads to an interest
in opposing imperialism and I$raeli occupation while maintaining the
exploitation of the proletariat and lumpen-proletariat.
The Hamas charter frames the struggle as a Jihad(holy struggle)
against Zionism. In its first charter in 1988, it was openly
anti-Semitic, claiming that both liberal and communist revolutions were
carried out because of the Jews.(21) The first charter also employs
idealism to obscure the internal class struggle and only emphasizes the
external one in an idealist manner. This was possibly put in due to the
opposition to Hamas by elements of the PLO and PFLP. Later on, this was
removed completely possibly in part due to the downfall of both of these
factions. As we can see, the ideology of Hamas changes as a result of
its class character and relationships with different factions. For that
reason, we see that Hamas broke with the Muslim Brotherhood officially
in the second charter in 2014 for being too passive. It also shifted
toward a more materialist conception of struggle against Zionism,
settler-colonialism/colonialism, and imperialism here rather than
against Jews and Judaism. In a recent document by Hamas, the
organization states this more clearly:
Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with
the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle
against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against
the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who
constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project
and illegal entity.(22)
This shift in position is important to note. The specific reason why
this occurred is hard to track down but the downfall of elements of the
PLO and PFLP is likely an important factor. So is the Second Intifada
and liberation of Gaza from I$raeli occupation and imperialism. As we
see, resistance to occupation forced Hamas to adopt more correct and
materialist political positions in regard to I$rael. It still obscures
internal class relations for its own benefit, but given the primary
ongoing struggle is against occupation, Hamas is able to maintain
majority support. A wartime poll of Palestinians in both Gaza and the
West Bank showed a vast majority supported: the Al Qassam Brigades(Hamas
brigades) at 89%, Palestinian Islamic Jihad at 85%, Al Aqsa
Brigades(Fatah brigades) at 80%, and Hamas at 76%.(23) Smaller
organizations like the PFLP were not included in the survey. So despite
the exploitation internally which Hamas is responsible for, its recent
practice of being one of the largest groups in the counter-attack
against I$rael leads it to win the sympathy of the masses.
Conclusion,
Reflections and Future Analysis
As we can see, the Islamic movements in Palestine are not a monolith
and have changed overtime. The formation of Hamas and its class basis is
important to have clarity on, but this article is by no means an
extensive analysis of such. It hopefully has helped in clearing up
common myths and confusions around Hamas, with imperialist media
constantly making frivolous claims. They range from Hamas having spawned
out of the I$raeli far-right funding to Hamas being a terrorist group
which kills Palestinians and I$raelis. This article hopefully provided
both facts and summarized analyses of why both of these common
narratives are false. However, there are major issues left unaddressed
and a few will be listed here. The political economy of the Levant and
the Palestinian clans/tribes are a crucial factor that has not even been
mentioned. The displacement by I$raeli settler-colonialism and
imperialism has not been analyzed enough in detail. The Muslim
Brotherhood and its relationship to Hamas was glossed over as well. As
an analysis and presentation of facts from a foreign perspective, many
crucial elements are likely missed that are not known about.
Some of these shortcomings may be addressed in future articles.
Specifically, an article about Fanon’s writings on the
lumpen-proletariat leading a revolution in Algeria will be pursued. The
underground national bourgeoisie of oppressed nations in the United
$tates are quite similar to Hamas in current times. The displacement of
Palestinians by I$raeli settler-colonialism and imperialism mirrors the
conditions of oppressed nations and oppressed national minorities at the
hands of Amerika. A greater understanding of how revolutionary struggle
can be conducted in conditions of settler-colonial displacement by the
participation of the lumpen-proletariat and First World lumpen will be
important.
Before ending this article, i would like to make a general
acknowledgement. This article was written with the direct help of a
variety of MIM(Prisons) and AIPS members along with a variety of
comrades not affiliated with MIM(Prisons). The work of Arabic and
Palestinian documentation and analysis played a major role in being able
to answer this question here in more detail. These sources are worth
checking out and have been cited below for readers to read into
themselves if they wish. This is not meant to advocate for communists in
the Third World to pursue a certain policy toward Hamas, but to provide
the facts about and a brief analysis of Hamas to give a deeper
perspective of what the movement is and represents.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
In the past, the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), and its mass
org at the time, the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League, campaigned
to get the University of California to Divest from I$rael.(1) This was a
correct strategy, because U.$. imperialism is the number one backer of
the I$raeli war machine. Behind the flag of I$rael is the stars and
stripes.
More recently, United Struggle from Within (USW) carried out a
petition campaign, which read in part:
“Therefore with this declaration we angrily express our indignation
with the state of Israel for committing genocide, and for the Israeli
people for allowing it to happen in the 21st century after vowing”never
again.”
The petition recognized that Palestinian political prisoners had
supported the California hunger strikes in recent years and it was time
to return solidarity. By 2016, comrades in 16 prisons had gathered 189
signatures. Recognizing the limitations of conditions, the petition also
read:
“Within these walls we are as yet powerless to tap into the potential
of the imprisoned lumpen; the oppressed internal nation lumpen in
particular as agents of social change, but we are not yet powerless to
sign a piece of paper to denounce the state of Israel and their support
in the U.$.”
Still today, comrades are asking what can we do to support
Palestine?
Settlers Supporting Settlers
The war against Palestine is what Amerika has always done from its
very founding – land grab, occupation, genocide. Therefore, there is
much support in the United $tates for I$rael’s current bombing campaign
and invasion of Gaza. And the tactics being used against Palestine could
easily be tried against indigenous people here on Turtle Island
next.
MIM and others have documented the history of Amerikan labor union
support for I$rael.(2) Yet, in recent months not only has the U.$. seen
millions demonstrate to oppose U.$. militarism in Palestine, but labor
unions representing millions of Amerikan so-called workers have signed a
call for a cease fire.(3) While Amerikans have always been settlers, the
United $tates is more and more a population of people who do not come
from settler backgrounds. And more and more, people from non-settler
backgrounds are joining the ranks of labor unions, big tech companies
and other professional roles. This is one factor behind the wavering
support for I$rael. Of course, it is the Palestinian resistance that is
forcing Amerikans to take a position.
The cease fire call is a shift for many Amerikan labor unions away
from outright Zionism to the left wing of white nationalism. Despite the
cease fire statement, these unions will still be campaigning for
Genocide Joe this year. And while some members of the International
Longshoreman Workers Union (ILWU) participated in a one day protest/shut
down of the port of Oakland in support of Gaza, there has been no
sustained strike by Amerikan unions that are actively involved in
shipping arms to I$rael.
The United Auto Workers (UAW), having been in the news for strikes
last year, is one of the unions to issue a statement for a ceasefire.
Meanwhile, the UAW has been hosting talks with employees of arms
manufacturer Raytheon for a “just transition” to guarantee labor
aristocracy union jobs in thefuture technologies of war and genocide.
Brandon Mancilla, director or UAW’s Region 9A, announced in a tweet on
Dec 1st the formation of a Divestment and Just Transition working group
to explore how “we can have just transition for US workers from war to
peace.” Behind the UAW’s ceasefire resolution, was UAW Labor for
Palestine. Self-described on their website as a “nationwide group of
rank-and-file UAW members” that seeks to “organize UAW worksites that
send arms and other material to Israel.” They have faced great
resistance from the UAW in general to taking any action to stop
producing arms for I$rael. Like the Amerikan leaders who mumble words
about humanitarian efforts in Palestine while continuing to authorize
more and more shipments of war machines to I$rael, Amerikan labor makes
statements about ceasefire, while continuing to produce these machines.
Actions speak louder than words.
As we reported in ULK 84, arms shipments must get to the
Red Sea before they face real resistance; resistance by Yemen’s
armed forces. And following I$rael’s attacks on Iranian diplomatic soil
in Syria in April, Iran has seized an I$raeli-linked cargo ship passing
through the Strait of Hormuz. While the Strait, which accesses the
Persian Gulf, does not lead to I$rael, it does lead to I$rael’s new Arab
allies in the UAE.
Doing Better
The #1 thing people in the United $tates can be doing in the
short-term to stop genocide in Palestine is to stop shipments of arms
and aid to I$rael. Just as the imperialists have used blockades to
weaken the Palestinian resistance. The question is how to make such a
blockade meaningful and sustainable.
In the longer-term it is our responsibility in the United $tates to
weaken imperialism from the inside. As we see the principal
contradiction in the United $tates to be between nations, it is by
supporting national liberation struggles at home that we believe we can
best make this happen faster. And without building the revolutionary
forces here in the United $tates, we do not foresee a successful,
sustained blockade of aid to I$rael.
Another realm of struggle we should be tuned into is the struggle
against political repression of those supporting Palestine, and
especially the state imposing limitations on the exchange of information
between Palestine and the world. The labeling of organizations linked to
the Palestinian struggle as “terrorist organizations” is parallel to
organizations in the oppressed nations in the United $tates being
labelled “security threat groups (STGs).” As our readers know well the
right to free speech and association is not guaranteed but must be
struggled for within this bourgeois democracy.
Finally, correct political line must lead for us to succeed on all
fronts. Democratic Party-supporting labor unions calling for “cease
fire” is not the correct political line. Stopping all aid to I$rael is
correct. Supporting national liberation struggles of the oppressed is
correct. Recognizing the populations of the exploiter countries to be
part of the bourgeoisie is correct. And recognizing the need for
independent communist organizations in all parts of the world is correct
for avoiding past mistakes that restricted the revolutionary potential
of oppressed nations (see next section).
There is a reinforcing effect between revolutionary nationalist and
communist movements around the world. Communism was more popular in
Palestine when communists were demonstrating models of success in
practice in other parts of the world. The revolutionary nationalism of
Palestine today will impact the consciousness of revolutionary
nationalism around the world, including within U.$. borders. Amplifying
this effect in the short-term will help us build the type of movement
that can provide real solidarity with Palestine in the short-term. The
history and class interests of Amerikan labor prove that their current
level of sympathies with Palestine are tenuous and lacking in
militancy.
It is the struggle of the occupied indigenous populations, the
largest of which is Aztlán, that are most parallel to Palestine in our
context. Meanwhile New Afrika has probably been the most ardent
supporter of Palestine in the United $tates historically. Though it’s
also worth noting the prominence of Jewish voices in opposing the war
from the United $tates, due to the connection the existence of I$rael
has forced onto all Jewish people. As a resistance movement based in a
compact area of land that is mostly urban, there is much to be learned
tactically from the successes of the ongoing struggle in Palestine today
that relates to the conditions of oppressed nations in the heart of
empire.
The ICM, Pan-Islamism and
Palestine
Support from communists around the world, especially those waging
People’s War in the Third World, has been unwavering on the side of
Palestine liberation since October 7th. But the history of the
International Communist Movement (ICM) has led to setbacks in
Palestinian and pan-Arab liberation.
MIM(Prisons) has been working on reiterating MIM line on the
Communist International in recent years as part of an effort to compile
MIM’s
work opposing crypto-Trotskyism. One of the key issues we have with
Trotskyism is its view that the most advanced capitalist countries
will/should lead the communist movement. MIM line says that the most
exploited and oppressed nations will lead the way, and recognizes the
need for independent initiative and direction from within each nation.
We also see the need for a Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of the
Oppressed Nations (JDPON) as a tool for overthrowing imperialism. Under
the JDPON, it will be the communist minorities in former imperialist
countries that are benefiting from the assistance of more advanced,
socialist, former colonies.
From 1919-1943, the third Communist International (Comintern) was the
first experiment in an international communist movement that involved
parties in state power. At that time the idea that the advanced
capitalist countries would lead the socialist revolution was more
popular. Bolshevik leader Mirza Sultan-Galiev was one of the biggest
critics of this position. In 1923, at the 9th Conference of the Tatar
Obkom, Sutlan-Galiev stated:
“If a revolution succeeds in England, the proletariat will continue
oppressing the colonies and pursuing the policy of the existing
bourgeois government; for it is interested in the exploitation of these
colonies. In order to prevent the oppression of the toiler of the East
we must unite the Muslim masses in a communist movement that will be our
own and autonomous.”(4)
MIM positively reviewed eir ideas:
“Sultan-Galiev was for the formation of a”Colonial International” to
replace the Comintern as organization of central importance. He also
called for the “dictatorship of the colonial nations over the
metropolis.”“(5)
Sultan-Galiev applied this concept to Russians, who were far more
oppressed and exploited than Amerikans today, as well as to the United
$tates, which ey saw as built on the genocide and labor of First Nations
and New Afrikans.
For a brief period, about 5 years after the Russian revolution, the
Bolsheviks had created a Muslim communist party separate from the
Russian one. But this project was quickly abandoned. Decades later, USSR
leader Joseph Stalin, who also played a leading role in the Comintern,
abolished the Comintern in 1943. Stalin and Mao both said the communist
international was no longer appropriate for the complicated conditions
of international struggle. One of the problems with the communist
international was the mixing of people from exploiter countries and
exploited countries in one organization. Another was the mixing of
people engaged in armed struggle against imperialism with those who are
not. Sultan-Galiev’s proposal for a “Colonial International” addresses
the first problem. However, eir ideas were not ultimately adopted by the
Comintern, and ey was purged from the Bolshevik Party in 1923.
Current
Events in Russia and Palestinian Communism
Last week a horrible mass shooting took place in Moscow, killing 143
people. The gunmen are reportedly from Tajikistan and working with the
Islamic State-Khorasan, based in Central Asia. An Amerikan analyst
explained that this group “sees Russia as being complicit in activities
that regularly oppress Muslims” and that a number of other Central Asian
militants have allied with the Islamic State group due to their own
grievances against Moscow.(6) Tajikistan is a former Soviet republic.
One must wonder if a Muslim Communist International, separate from the
Russian one, could have avoided the emergence of militant groups in
Central Asia today that have violent beefs with Moscow. This goes both
ways, with chauvinist attitudes by many Russians today towards the other
former Soviet republics. As the capitalist/imperialist USSR collapsed in
1991, both sides of this national divide perceived the other to be
exploiting them.(7)
On the Western side of the USSR Sultan-Galiev helped establish a
separate Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1921. This
became a bastion for German Nazis in the 1940s, leading to the native
Tatar population being relocated by Stalin, and the area populated by
Russians and Ukrainians – leading to disputes over the territory today.
This suggests that Stalin was correct to oppose Sultan-Galiev for narrow
nationalism in the late 1920s and ultimately have em killed in 1940 as
the Nazis were preparing to invade.
The problems with trying to unify too quickly with a communist
international seems to have played a role in Palestine and the Arab
world as well. The Soviet Union supported the partitioning of Palestine
by the Zionists, leading to the Nakba (“The Catastrophe” or ethnic
cleansing of Palestine) in 1948. Despite the Comintern having been
dissolved in 1943, apparently it was still policy for the Communist
Parties in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon to support the USSR line on the
partitioning of Palestine against their own beliefs. This led to massive
loss of support for the communists in Syria and Lebanon for years to
come (there was not much support in Palestine until years later).(8)
While U.$. and I$raeli imperialism played a role in suppressing
communist organizing, these internal contradictions and short-comings
are what allowed such efforts to succeed. We can see how the strategies
we choose today can have grave and lasting impacts decades later. That
is why we, as communists, must do a better job of implementing an
effective internationalism by recognizing the national
self-determination of each oppressed nation. Independence in action must
coincide with a struggle for unity in ideology.
“The early stages of socialism according to both Lenin and Stalin
would see a vast multiplication of nations seizing their destinies. It
was only under advanced communism that we could contemplate the
disappearance of nations.”(7)
The above is in line with USW’s slogan of “unity from the inside
out.” It is only with true self-determination of the oppressed nations
that they can fully unite with other nations. Of course, the more unity
we have the stronger we are. So we must struggle for unity, without
forcing it before conditions are ripe.
We call on comrades to continue to make connections between Palestine
and national struggles in occupied Turtle Island, and to build national
liberation struggles here in the heart of empire.
In our last issue we covered the mythology
of sex crimes being painted onto Hamas in the imperialist media, and
the flaunting of beautiful, young, “white” wimmin to rouse the hunger
for war in the men of the United $tates, Britain and I$rael itself. In
effect they have turned the genocide in Palestine into a rape revenge
fantasy.
Since that article, multiple news agencies have done further
investigation into the claims made by the New York Times and
echoed across the imperialist media. Yes! and The
Intercept both conducted investigations, and to those paying
attention, it seems very clear that there is actually no real
evidence of rape committed on October 7th, especially by Hamas
itself. Both investigations report on the experience of one of the lead
investigators for the New York Times, who questioned eir own
qualifications to be working on the article, and hit dead end after dead
end while intentionally trying to dig up information on alleged rapes.
This “reporter,” Anat Schwartz, also liked a tweet saying that I$rael
needed to “turn the [Gaza] strip into a slaughterhouse.”(1)(2)
Another figure in this propaganda campaign, Cochav Elkayam-Levy, was
hosted by the White House in December, whom it described in a press
statement as the “Chair of Israel’s Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes
by Hamas Against Women and Children.” Since then ey has been the center
of scandal in I$rael where it has been exposed that the “Commission” is
just one persyn, and despite its name is not an official state
commission. Elkayam-Levy released a “Horrors Report” that was 4 pages
long, listing newspaper headlines and some signatures. Meanwhile ey
attempted to raise $8 million for the “Commission’s”
investigation.(3)
While working on this article another New York Times piece
came out claiming that an I$raeli prisoner was sexually assaulted. This
came out months after her release and having given a press conference on
her imprisonment. It also came out shortly after that new evidence had
been uncovered to prove some of their claims about rapes on October 7th
false. In reality, it was already known that these claims were false
before the original article came out.(4) What is not debated is the fact
that these wimmin were killed in the October 7th attack. The grandfather
of the two girls killed by Hamas, mentioned in the NYT report
on rape, said it “was the saddest day of my life.” So why is it so
necessary for the imperialists to create these stories that they were
raped as well? Finally, this new sexual assault story comes to light as
I$rael is conducting an intentional mass starvation campaign and
destruction of medical care in the Gaza Strip and as footage is released
of I$raeli drones hunting down and murdering unarmed Palestinians
walking down the street.
The imperialist media has at times painted the myth of sexual
assaults on October 7th as the greatest tragedy in the conflict in
Palestine. Greater than the almost 35,000 dead Palestinians, greater
than the thousands of Palestinian babies starving to death as we write
this, even greater than the hundreds of I$raeli lives taken.
Meanwhile, many U.$. prisoners are confused by the state to think
that anyone with a “sex offender” label has assaulted children. And they
see this assault of children, whether real or imagined, by another
prisoner as the greatest tragedy that they will sacrifice their body and
their freedom to avenge. This is a greater tragedy to them than the tens
of thousands of oppressed nation men and wimmin being tortured every day
by the U.$. prison system. The 100,000 rotting
away in long-term isolation. The minds of multiple generations being
zombified by chemical warfare agents being brought in and sold by the
guards. Staff beating people to within an inch of their lives over
frivolous trespasses. Some of our misled readers would rather attack
another prisoner than avenge these atrocities of the state.
Young New Afrikan males are one of the demographics that are most
likely to be raped in the United $tates because of their vastly
disproportionate rate of imprisonment.(5) Palestinians face similar
rates of imprisonment, with accounts of rape in those prisons of both
men and wimmin. A recent UN report says allegations of I$raeli sexual
assault and rape of Palestinan wimmin and girls are credible.(6) It is
clear that by fighting imperialism – its occupations, its wars, its
prisons – we can do the most to combat rape. It is clear that bombing
Gaza is not stopping rape. It should also be clear that attacking other
prisoners who are threatening no one does not stop rape.
Rape revenge fantasies are built up by the patriarchy, to tug at the
emotions of the patriarchal men who are called to avenge the innocent
who are defiled. This props up the very gender relations that lead to
rape in the first place, where individuals take other individuals’ fates
into their own hands through the use of inter-persynal force. These
fantasies are used to divide the oppressed and rally the oppressors.
They are used to justify division and oppression in U.$. prisons, and
they are used to justify war and genocide in the Third World.
The illegal, inhumane, and barbaric war of genocide taking place
against the people of Palestine must be addressed from a historical
perspective without fear of retaliation or being “white balled” by the
white supremacist and neo-fascist power structure.
FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real, and there is nothing more false
than the Khazarian Settler-KKKolony in Northeast Afrika (Canaans)
posturing as the descendants of the ancient Israelites and committing
mass genocide against its melanated population.
Revolutionaries, community activists, and all good-hearted people
cannot afford to tiptoe around this issue. To continue to call these
people “Israel” is to continue to perpetuate a blatant lie and become
co-conspirators to one of the greatest frauds and identity thefts in
modern day history. They are not Israelites and have no historical
connection to the land. They are invaders who have seized control of the
major means of production – backed by U.$. and British imperialism – and
turned Palestine into a neo-KKKolony where its people must fight for
their national liberation and self-determination. Just as AmeriKKKa is
an imperialist empire consisting of neo-KKKolonies fighting for their
self-determination from their invaders, conquerors, and oppressors,
Palestinians are doing the same.
These invaders, like every other rapist, abuser, and tyrant, have the
audacity to blame the victim for their victimization when they decide to
stand up straight so that their oppressor falls off their back. They
claim everything was going well until several members of Hamas decided
to invade their territory and kidnap and murder dozens of innocent
“Israeli” children, wimmin and men. I’m pretty sure all rapists think
that their savage actions are going well until their victim gets hold of
something to defend themselves, and fight back!
History is often defined by its conquerors, and especially when that
conqueror is in control of the propaganda networks, they are able to
shape the narrative for the future generations to come. These Khazarians
are no exception! We must collectively, through international
solidarity, diametrically oppose the systemic lie that they have
introduced to the world through religion, geo-politikkks, the
mis-education system, and the media.
The falsification of consciousness is so prevalent that they have
conceived the world that people can actually be anti-semetic against
them, when in fact:
There isn’t even a son named “Sem” in all of the Torah. Noah had
three sons: Shem, Khem, and Japheth.
“Ashkenaz”, a name which at least 90% of these modern day
Khazarians identify themselves as, are descendants of Japeth
(Gen. 20:2-3), Since they, by their own admission, are not Shemitic
(descendant from Shem’s bloodline, not “religion”), no one can possibly
be “anti-shemetic”, “anti-semetic” or whatever else you want to call
it.
Words matter. Historical materialism matters. “Anti-semetic” is a
politikkkal term they’ve developed in order to prevent those who become
conscious of their international zionist agenda from speaking out or
engaging in the growing struggle against kkkapitalist exploitation and
white supremacy of which they are dead at the center of.
Khazarians in 740 began to practice much of the spiritual discipline,
culture, and way of life of the Hebrew Israelites. History reveals that
prior to this decision these Khazarians were already at war with Arabs
and Muslims from 642-652 and again from 722-739 in what is called the
“Arab-Khazarian Wars”.
When the Khazarian Kingdom began to decline, the national identity of
the Khazarian people got absorbed by other European nations that they
amalgamated into, but holding on to the only thing that would always be
able to identify them no matter where they ended up so that one day they
could come back together and resurrect their Khazarian empire:
“Ashkenazi Judaism”.
During the Moorish rulership of Southern Spain, the great Hebrew
Israelite chief minister of the Caliph of Cordova, a diplomat, scholar,
physicians, and financial advisor, Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, shared multiple
correspondences with King Joseph of Khazaria where Joseph admits that
his bloodline and that of the Khazarian people go back to Japheth not
Shem!
The reason this is so important to point out is because it destroys
the lie that they are some “chosen people” based on spiritual text, with
some divine rights of dictatorship over Afrikan people and other people
of color. What is going on in Northeast Afrika is not a war between the
“white” descendants of Isaaq and the “black” descendants of Ishmael – it
is a war for national liberation against foreign domination… period!
They have perverted the text and twisted it for their own opportunistic
benefit.
To continue to allow this to go unchecked and label people who are
actually descendants of Abraham “anti-semetic” – rather Hebrew Israelite
and Hebrew Khemite – will allow those who are actually being
“anti-shemetic” to continue to drop hundreds of bombs on innocent people
who just want to be free. Since 7 October 2023, a little over 2 months
ago, the Khazarians have murdered over 20,000 Palestinians! And I
understand the reluctance of some people to speak this truth. The world
has witnessed what these imperialists have done to the Nick Cannon’s, Kanye’s,
and Kyrie’s, not to mention the Afrikans and others who dare to
speak truth to power. But all oppressed people everywhere have a humyn
right to resist KKKolonialism – white supremacy. We have an obligation
to our ancestors and a responsibility to our children to say that
oppression anywhere affects us everywhere!
Whenever Europeans are oppressing people of color, just already
expect them to come up with a clever word in order to cover up their
savagery, while at the same time discouraging you to extinguish the fire
of your revolution. That is what they’ve done, and that is what they
will always do! They will call your response “reverse racism”, “woke
theory”, “anti-semetic”, etc. But as a conscious Hebrew
Israelite and a dedicated New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, I
say it’s time to call it what it is: Revolutionary Justice!
Wiawimawo of MIM(Prisons) responds: We have much unity
with this comrade’s conclusions regarding the role of I$rael in the
world, and the relationship of oppressed peoples to I$rael as an arm of
the U.$. empire. This article validates some of the things we wrote in
ULK 79 about the overall alliances of the New Afrikan masses
who are followers of Black Hebrew Israelites(1) and in ULK 80
on Kyrie Irving and Ye(fka Kanye West).(2)
We are not scholars of ancient civilizations, and will not try to set
the records straight here on the history of Khazarians. What we do know,
is that similar ideas to those above have been used by conspiracy
theorists who believe that Khazarians have controlled the world for 100s
of years, even calling people like the Bolshevik revolutionaries V.I.
Lenin and Joseph Stalin Khazarian Satanists. Clearly such ideas have
strayed far from historical materialism into the realm of fantasy.
Therefore we caution the author above, and our readers regarding these
ideas.
Certainly there is much to be learned by studying ancient
civilizations. But what we won’t learn is who is controlling things in
our world today and why. And while the bible has historical value, it is
not a document of factual history. I$rael today exists by the grace of
U.$. imperialism and its military industrial complex. We must attack
Zionist oppression, without succumbing to idealistic thinking.
Conspiracy theories that attempt to explain all of history are such
idealistic thinking, that serve to disempower the masses at the hands of
an all-powerful oppressor.
While playing with the words of the fascist conspiracy theorists, the
author above does not fall into these traps in what ey wrote. Ey
correctly points out that European settlers are using anti-semitism as a
shield to their genocidal project in the interests of imperialism. And
we join em on the side of the oppressed nations against imperialism.
1. MIM(Prisons), October 2022,Some Discussions on Bad Ideas
Pt. 1, Under Lock & Key 79. 2. A New York prisoner, January
2023, Sorting Out a Defense of Kyrie Irving, Under Lock & Key
80.