Lenin and the National Question

Lenin's approach to the national question especially as Stalin summarizes it in foundations of Leninism which we previously covered can help kind of show why Marxists have to be in solidarity with the Palestinian people. There are unfortunately chauvinist Marxists who take a stance of saying well I'm opposed to both governments and the working class of both governments of both countries need to unite with each other. While that sounds nice it is also completely unrealistic and ignores the function of Palestinian nationalism as opposition to imperialism. It's not enough to hand ring about oh wouldn't be nice if the Israeli workers and the Palestinian workers got along because that cannot happen in a context of occupation where national self-determination hasn't been established