someone had the GALL to say that its good israel is invading because it will help save lgbt people from hamas. no, being nuked from orbit is NOT good for lgbt people

I was saying this recently. For the test of whether you are an anti-imperialist leftist the only real questions need to be “Russia or NATO” and “Israel or Palestine.”

It was rather obvious after they started writing "No war but class war" after Ukraine. No surprise that they would do the same even in clearer case. If, lets's say, Egypt invaded Israel now, they would call Hamas "Egyptian green men" and Palestinians "colonists".

liberatory violence would not be necessary if oppressors did not create the conditions necessitating liberation.

I was pondering this just yesterday how these two conflicts are together the ultimate litmus test for identifying who is and who isn't a principled anti-imperialist. Because there are some radlibs who support Palestine but not Russia, and there are some conservatives who support Russia but not Palestine. So far it seems to me out of all groups Marxist-Leninists and fellow travelers have been the most principled anti-imperialists on both issues.

I'm sure we will see similar dynamics if and when other conflicts break out around the world. For instance i expect yet more filtering out of opportunists from principled anti-imperialists when the US starts a conflict with either Iran or China.