Progressive Organizations Must Speak Up about Palestine
“Progressive organizations should also understand how Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more movements weaponize anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab An attitude toward social identities that can be mobilized to justify discrimination, state/vigilante violence, and exploitation. Learn more , A form of religious bigotry, with strong racial components, that scapegoats & demonizes Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim. Learn more , and anti-Semitism to push a Christian nationalist worldview. Attacks against Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and Jews are not just isolated incidents perpetrated by racist individuals. They are motivated by a Christian nationalist ideology that seeks a White, Christian society without Muslims, Arabs, or Jews. In fact, for many Christian nationalists, political support of Israel is rooted in an anti-Semitic desire to expel Jews from the United States, believing that Jews must be in Israel for the ‘Second Coming’ [politicalresearch.org] of Jesus.”