So, You Think “Resistance is Justified When People Are Occupied”?

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So, You Think “Resistance is Justified When People Are Occupied”?

“From [insert] river to [idk] sea, rules for thee but not for me!” Aside from an infuriatingly vapid epidemic of indignant self-righteousness, the protest-as-social capital era has brought a slew of ignorant, stupid and downright hypocriticalslogansinto the popular lexicon.

Worst among these — though the competition is stiff — is the infamous “Resistance is justified when people are occupied” chant. It is perhaps the most transparently reductive excuse for unconscionable violence outside of “But what was she wearing?” or “She made me do it!”

“Resistance is justified when people are occupied” is a refrain commonly heard from pro-Palestinian activists, ranging from Ben & Jerry’s Chair Anuradha Mittal to the Keffiyah-Klad Klanspeople attending anti-Israel, pro-terror rallies across America.

The logic (or lack thereof) is self-explanatory; Hamas (or any perceptibly “correct” radical leftist or even terrorist organization, so long as they adequately ideologically oppose the American way of life) is justified, because the Palestinians are allegedly “occupied.”

Curious, as Gaza had not been “occupied” by Israel since 2005, but why should facts or logic get in the way of a catchy, barbarous rhyme? The bored, privileged TikTok weasels require only the bare minimum propaganda to justify their gleeful reverence of the horrific genocide that happened on October 7th.

Never mind that Israel is the ancestral homeland to the Jewish people, and a faction of Jews have continuously remained there for thousands of years, despite widespread forced, violent colonization (including by the current Arab inhabitants) resulting in the modern diaspora.

But what makes this militant motto more bizarre than its ahistorical basis (and the morally bankrupt nature of attempting to defend mass murder, torture, rape, and kidnapping of civilians on the basis of the victims’ ethnic and religious identities) is the location in which it is parroted.

Today’s miseducated American hellions regurgitate proud endorsements of savage brutality in the name of “decolonizing.” And YET! America, as these very same creatures will eagerly inform you after completing their Marxist Masturbation 101 class at Shitstain University, was founded on colonialism.

That, however, simply warrants empty land acknowledgements and advocacy for open borders to bring in a deluge of additional “colonizers” despite the occasional peremptory proclamations of “Land back!”

Colonialism is not ancient history in America, either (though I’d be curious to hear what the alleged statute of limitations is on capital punishment for crimes of “colonialism” since the establishment of the contemporary State of Israel 75 years ago still seems to qualify all its inhabitants broadly for the death penalty — yes, including babies — but America’s founding 250 years ago is “too long ago”).

Puerto Rico and Guam are literally still American colonies, which means they don’t have Congressional representation, nor are they entitled to electoral votes for the presidency. Furthermore, the State of Hawaii alone was annexed in 1959–11 years after Israel became internationally recognized as a country.

I recall when an obnoxious anti-Zionist “Jewish” so-called “racial justice educator” I know through a mutual ex-friend went on a babymoon to Hawaii with her wife during the height of the pandemic; Native Hawaiians were literally begging people to stop coming at that time, but the wealthy, San Francisco home-owning, self-loathing grifter and her wife were so exhausted from all their “anti-racist,” anti-Zionist posturing, they simply needed to go.

When I brought up this hypocrisy with my ex-friend (a teacher with an extreme case of “white savior” complex), since they were lesbians and the wife of the “educator” was Black, she vigorously defended their trip and bemoaned that my criticism was “lacking a power analysis.” I still don’t know what that means, but I’m fairly certain it’s gobbledygook.

Which leads me back to the original point, for anyone audacious and apathetic enough to defend the notion that “resistance is justified when people are occupied;” who are you to decide whether the grisly murders of over a thousand civilians on 10/7 were “justified” or not?

What is the precise definition of “occupation” that warrants this level of abhorrent barbarism, how does any non-Native American sitting in the United States right now not technically deserve that same punishment, and does an occupied lavatory qualify?

These are questions that cannot actually be answered by the pill-popping TikTok degenerates, because there is no moral fabric or integrity to any of their advocacy. Time and again we are reminded, down to their simple inability to even find Israel on a map, that their terrorism apologia does not possess any intellectual basis. Like most things in their lives, it is merely deflection, boredom and mental illness, and Jews are simply an easy target. We’ve seen this all before.

And we know how it ends. As the miscreants of Gen Z will learn sooner or later, the Nazis do not win.