[lbo-talk] Ramzy Baroud: "Nothing about us without us: The token Palestinian and authentic narrative"

[Joseph Catron]

(I don't think the dynamics Ramzy broaches below are quite as bad today in
any but the smallest, least irrelevant socialist groups, which is not to
say any are perfect. Also, there's a lot more to the essay than them.)

"Having been born into a working class of Gazan Palestinian refugees that
identified with a different breed of socialism - more contextualised and
not as slogan-driven - I felt strangely alien to the socialist scene in
Seattle, but, more importantly, alien to the entire narrative of which, I,
a Palestinian, was meant to be the centre. Eventually, I discovered that
the issue was far-reaching and involved ..."

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/nothing-about-us-without-us-token-palestinian-and-authentic-narrative-627539364

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