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The cause of the Palestinian people is the cause of humanity in our time

John Wight
5 min readJul 7, 2023

Well here we are again, discussing the aftermath of yet another Israeli military operation to ‘stamp out terrorism’. Yet again the victims of said ‘military operation’ were the Palestinians; this time prisoners — for this is what they are in truth — of the Jenin refugee camp in the illegally occupied West Bank.

The usual apologetics and justifications for the heavily-armed, Western-backed forces of a racist apartheid state attacking a near defenceless indigenous people have become so tiresome, they penetrate the ears like so much chaff.

To be a Palestinian is to be guilty, while to be an Israeli is to be innocent. The killing of a Palestinian is an act of defence in the name of security, while the killing of an Israeli is an act of terrorism in the name of evil. Dare defy or question this script is to be antisemitic, while going along with it is to be credible and correct.

The problem with this dynamic, its inherent immorality, is that it flies in the face of any conception of truth, decency and probity. In this regard, the salient facts are as follows:

  1. Israel is a…

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