It is not easy for Palestinians and allies who espouse Palestinian liberation to navigate dealing with Jewish Israelis.
On the one hand, they are occupying Palestinian land in several ways.
First, most of them are geographically living in the territory of Palestine, some literally in robbed Palestinian homes. Second, they are benefiting from colonial privileges at the expense of all Palestinians inside and outside Palestine.
Third, their collective existence as Israeli citizens is what makes the continued existence of the settler state possible. And fourth, the overwhelming majority of them support the continued existence of the settler state rather than decolonization and the transition to a democratic state.
On the other hand, around 80 percent of Israelis were born in Palestine. This means that, unlike those who actively chose to settle Palestine, millions of Jewish Israelis share with Palestinians the fact that they were born with a choice imposed on them……more
