Suppressing pro Palestinian voices under a Trump Presidency
JVL Introduction
Just days away from a new US President; the outcome of which will impact the rest of the world. The polls show how divided that country is with Harris and Trump neck and neck. How much worse would a Trump Presidency be than the current Biden-Harris Administration? One that has, for example, sent billions of dollars in arms and vetoed ceasefire motions at the UN.
Certainly a Trump Presidency would continue its uncritical commitment to Israel and to continue to claim that by doing so they are being the “best friend of the Jewish people” (as though this was one and the same thing). Trump is likely to be influenced by Project 2025 (Here are the full 887 page Mandate For Leadership and the shorter guide.
Project 2025 has much to concern socialists, all women and people from racialised communities, most especially migrants and refugees. We are drawing attention to one aspect of the policies outlined; clamping down on pro Palestinian voices in the name of ending antisemitism. It proposes using legislation designed to combat terrorism and organised crime to “break the pro Palestinian movement within 12 – 24 months”.
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This article was originally published by Dropsite news (on Substack) on Tue 29 Oct 2024. Read the original here.
If Donald Trump wins next week, the Heritage Foundation has prepared a roadmap for him to crush dissent
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As mapped out, ‘antisemitism’ is a slogan used as a political weapon by far right wing groupings in the USA. It is deployed as part of the dictatorship of the British Labour Party by our own anti democratic right wing establishment.
How ironic that the document describes protesters at aiming at the destruction of democracy. That aim stands out as central in the ‘Mandate for Leadership’, 9th edition, published by the Heartland Foundation as part of Project 2025. The latter document also lays out the blueprint for the construction of a Christian Nationalist state structure. Note, that it is ‘Christian’ nationalist. Their emphasis will be on antagonism to Islam, but implicit in the concept is a hostility – or at best, indifference – to Judaism.
The contradiction between this and their apparent support of the state of Israel is obvious. Presumably, if you are far enough to the right on the political spectrum, you are acceptable.
@Rory Allen
The BBC did a long interview a couple of years ago with a prominent member of the US “Alt Right”. Openly antisemitic, he nevertheless was full of praise for Israel. His reason, apart from a deep hatred of non-whites and Muslims, was that he saw Israel as a model for what he hoped to create in part of the USA- a white “European” Christian ethnostate.
I suspect many Trump supporters want the same.
The far-right and Israel have been aligned for many years and have made no secret of it. The far-right has seen in Israel two admirable qualities which do not fit comfortably together in the rational mind but do to the anti-semitic racists looking to solve a problem that can only be solved ultimately and as they well know through violence. One is the great skill Israel has shown in oppressing a people seen as unworthy of meaningful existence, and the other is the shared view, albeit with a very different perspective, that Israel is a place Jews can go to be safe than face the camps again. With Trump amd Project2025 the far-right has entered mainstream politics in a way that has only been threatened in any of the other western democracies. If Trump wins, Project2025’s ideas will be the basis of government policy, and Palestinians and Jews will have to pay the price together. At least, if Harris wins, there is the chance, however small, of some amelioration for Palestine. With the bonding of the two fascists Trump and Netanyahu, there will be nothing left but to despair. That so much hurts to say.