One of the best analysts out there is Hussein Aboubakr Mansour.
Here he channels Western academics as a probable response to Palestinians chanting another genocidal threat to Jews in Ramallah today.
"Whoever has a rifle, either go shoot a Jew or give it to Hamas." -A chant in a demonstration in Ramallah from earlier today.A Western social science professor will record these as indigenous protest folk songs that attempt to re-humanize the colonized through the lyrical act of murdering the colonizer. This imaginative murder then dissolves the colonized and dehumanized essence of the subaltern and restores to it a state of equality with the dead colonizer. Thus, the rifle stops being an instrument of war and becomes a bridge to liberation, the symbol of the lost humanity that needs to be restored.Here, the decolonial subjectivity is pursuing its humanity of the antiracist emancipatory praxis through the act of murder, which is made to challenge, to interrogate, to haunt, and to deconstruct Western knowledge which is deeply penetrated by the all-econpmassing colonial subjectivity. This compromised and deeply colonized Western knowledge imposes the arbitrary and oppressive dichotomy of the peaceful and the violent, both imperialist social constructs, as part of its arsenal of weapons of discursive coercion meant to disarm the colonized and prevent them from resistance.The rifle then doesn't just murder the colonizer, but also the Western coloniality of representation which attempts to monopolize and homogenize the decolonial struggles, acting as a castrating agent for capitalist modernity. This discursive act of resistance is a harbinger of the humanism that was hijacked and distorted by Western coloniaty, an ideology of psychotics who live in an entirely subjective temporality of oppression and dehumanization.
I've read academic papers, and this is hardly an exaggeration. After all, some 1700 sociologists signed an anti-Israel letter that said its campaign against Hamas, whom they don't mention, is "genocide." (Israeli sociologists wrote a rebuttal.)
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