Israel and the Progressives
KPFA - Against the Grain
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Tolerance Is a Wasteland
Tolerance is a Wasteland raises the question of why liberals and progressives in the West, in Europe and especially in the US, support Israel without consideration of the violence that led to its existence. You write how we might think of affirmation denial and sort of polar opposites from each other. But you argue that in the case of Israel and its projection to the rest of the world, its self-projection, especially to a Western liberal audience, affirmation functions as a kind of denial.
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