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How do you address the argument, frequently made, that their terrorist designation is illegitimate (because terrorist is a designation given to non-state actors
by OgsyedIE 2y ago
How do you address the argument, frequently made, that their terrorist designation is illegitimate (because terrorist is a designation given to non-state actors) and they are in fact state actors (a government of a state) engaged in war?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> How do you address the argument, frequently made, that their terrorist designation is illegitimate Then address that directly first. Ignoring the terrorist designation and going straight to not only voicing sympathy for them but outright supporting them isn’t something we want to encourage. (Note: I do not know if this activist supported Hamas.)
- OgsyedIE 2y agoThey usually do. They regularly begin with saying that they are advocating for peace with a foreign country that we have supported an illegitimate invasion into and that all claims of terrorism are just propaganda. They usually don't dispute any of the atrocities there exists evidence for, they just insist that they are military acts of war by the armed forces of the Palestinian government and that terrorism is a category error, just like the Tet Offensive.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoI fully support what you’re saying. It does not line up with my experience with pro-Palestinian protestors in New York City. (Or ACAB/Defund the Police before it. Same problem, in my opinion.)
- OgsyedIE 2y agoTbf, literacy rates are down
- blindriver 2y agoI disagree with that argument entirely.
- OgsyedIE 2y agoEvery land territory on Earth that is claimed by at least one government also has a government, correct? Either Palestine has a government of its own or Palestine is a part of Israel.
- loeg 2y agoAny definition of terrorist group that manages to exclude Hamas by calling it a state government is simply an incorrect definition.