[lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Fwd: [Marxism] SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN UPRISING, 18 Oct 5PM, NYC

[Robert Naiman]

Well, ok, if your claim now is that the thing that you posted is only
intended for a Palestinian audience, not intended to have any impact on
those outside the Palestinian community, why post it on these lists? Are
there a lot of Palestinians on these lists?

Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Robert Naiman <
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
>
> Isn't the entire "global BDS movement" premised on the idea that
>> solidarity matters, or could matter?
>>
>
> Yes, and it's also something very different than the Palestinian national
> movement. If you inexplicably expect the latter to act like a solidarity
> movement itself, you've missed the plot badly . And if you expect the BDS
> movement to accomplish anything in the absence of a Palestinian movement
> stronger than the current one, you have, in fact, exaggerated the extent to
> which solidarity matters. Solidarity with a thing is not, and cannot be, a
> substitute for the thing itself.
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
>
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