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Suspect arrested for setting people on fire at pro-Israel event in Boulder, Colorado
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Kind of predictable though when the other guy went after low level embassy staffers. Unfortunately you start doing that and people see it a lot differently than doming Healthcare CEOs, the message copycats get is just get anyone involved at any level, just unleash your frustrations on easy access soft targets. And that's appealing to people because hitting the targets that kind of matter more is often much more difficult and challenging and many of these people are acting emotionally and in an undisciplined, glory-seeking way.
This is unfortunately what you get. People doing these kinds of attacks that don't in any way disrupt the zionist machine, don't really intimidate those who matter at the top because you're just hitting the very bottom and play right into their narrative and let them justify more crackdowns and paint everyone with the same broad brush as just hating Jews, as being terrorists, as being willing to kill uninvolved civilians.
People you know justified the attacks on those embassy people because they posted ghoulish pro-zionist views online, well these people were posting those views IRL with their little protest here and the only difference is those other people were official low level but easily replaced employees. Neither one is going to resonate as justifiable to most people, most Americans, but this is even less so.
It's very ineffectual. What the 'left' in the US does compared to even the UK where those activists regularly shut down Elbit systems and their suppliers. You know I think most British people don't look at those activists there shutting down the weapons companies as dangerous, hateful terrorists whereas it's easy to paint these attackers in the US as just that and that's a problem. These are acts of undisciplined despair and emotion but they're going to hurt the disciplined parts of the movement all so they can feel better about themselves by taking action. It's very selfish and it plays right into the hands of the zioniosts who get to claim Jews are under attack and rally around needing to uphold the zionist project.
This isn't going to scare zionists from the streets. It isn't going to slow the genocide, it isn't going to give pause to those carrying it out, it isn't going to give pause to them abetting it here in the US.
On the contrary local people have regularly participated in crowding and shutting the police out, preventing arrest while vandalism is ongoing. In fact, getting hundreds of local people participating has been instrumental in ensuring that the activists are viewed as doing what the people want rather than anything else.
The embassy workers are associated with the state, rather directly, these are home grown dipshits. Again, considering convenience (domestic targets, mass instead of direct weapons, tenuous connection) for propaganda, it smells very fishy
That is until it gets to the point where people start forming lynch mobs to lynch any potential Zionist and vandal any potential Zionist-owned stores. Of course, pogroms and Kristallnachts with anti-Zionist characteristics isn't something we should wish for because there's no chance in Hell an "anti-Zionist" lynch mob would actually be anti-Zionist. And I think the day when a lynch mob goes after a Zionist or worse, a suspected Zionist (ie a Jew) is a lot closer than we think.
The american monomyth I scream into the void. Yeah they don’t want to hear it but this isn’t the most productive form of direct action. Maybe normalized in American society but I distinctly remember people saying that an american civil war would look like this act? A thousand different “lone wolve” attacks but no organized movement which uses targeted violence.