“Death to the genocide machine.”
The most criminal army in the world.
The following is dedicated to the memory of Malak Musleh, Gaza’s youngest female boxer, and the twenty-nine other people killed along with her when the I.D.F. bombed a seaside cafe yesterday. Al-Baqa Cafeteria was frequented by journalists, artists, athletes, and those looking for an internet connection and a break from daily slaughter.
1 JULY—Establishment reaction to rap duo Bob Vylan leading a chant of “Death to the I.D.F.” at Glastonbury’s music festival this past weekend strips bare the utter depravity of the Western political class and the mainstream press that serve it. And no surprise. I actually laughed when I learned the U.S. had revoked Bob Vylan’s visas, forcing cancellation of a planned concert tour through part of empire central.
We must never forget: These are the very institutions and people aiding and abetting Israel’s criminality—criminal conduct carried out by the I.D.F. Equally, we must remember: This is the very same conduct—the commission of genocide—for which German commanders, soldiers, and civilians hanged in the aftermath of WWII.
Death to the SS.
The failure of Western nations to stop the I.D.F.—by any means necessary, according to the Geneva Conventions—is a violation of international law, as we all by now know. I am not an international lawyer but I assume, quite reasonably I think, that any means necessary necessarily and obviously means the killing of I.D.F. commanders and soldiers, if that is indeed what is required to defend the people of Gaza from genocide. What can possibly be controversial about this?
Israel does not have a special dispensation to commit genocide. The fact that Israel was founded as and declares itself to be a Jewish state does not entitle its army to commit genocide. The I.D.F. is the machine perpetrating a genocide. It’s soldiers are the men and women running that machine. Neither ignorance—nor a childhood of Zionist indoctrination—can possibly excuse participation in a genocide. Wishing for the I.D.F’s total destruction, wishing for death upon the I.D.F., is as morally defensible as anything can possibly be.
The genocide needs to stop. Stopping it means stopping the I.D.F.
So long as the I.D.F. continues its genocidal campaign and Western countries continue to arm and enable it, “Death to the I.D.F.” should be defended as a logical and moral proposition.
Published simultaneously at The Floutist.
The chants will not acheive anything, because they dont adress the core problem: the existence of this collective identity called the "west"m which in fact defines itself though othering people and though its bloodstained history of Euro-colonialism: a brutal muderous enterprise of exploiting the rest of the world.
As long as there are lost of people who skip over their French or English or whatever history and culture, and seek to assemble under the umbrella of being "western" or "white"....well exploitation and murder will take place.
There isn't a way to get "the west" to NOT be murderous.
And the so called IDF is in fact a western colonial army.
The solution is to demobilize people from adopting this single purpose, murderous identity. It would be better if people wise up and focus removing themselves from this idenitty and bleed it of its pretense of being cultural or benign.
But these chants are really a dead end, no worse - they are taking people far up the wrong lane. It's the path the enemy WANTS you to wander into, because its better for them if people get lost and better yet many of the leaders of change can be arrested for merely emoting while getting nothing done.