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What we have seen in the past three weeks is that many people who are non and anti-Zionist were forced to come out against the motion because they saw its risks. And the debate effectively legitimised the concept of Zionism and made it more difficult to criticise, not the opposite.

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Perhaps. I doubt it. My scenario is that it discredits the Greens as a credible challenge to Labour, and hence removes pressure from Labour to move left on Palestine. The only upside is that Miliband seems to be invested in sanctions on settlements regardless of political manoeuvring.

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I use the term “Third World” here in its proper sense, as the Left has been much more reticent to embrace genuinely anticolonial nationalisms in the Second World, such as in the Baltics or Ukraine. The cosmopolitanism of leftism thus degenerates into campism, where Gaddafi is a hero, not Zelensky.

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I very much agree with this, but one thing it passes over is the extent to which the Left adopts Third World ethno-nationalisms under the auspices of anticolonialism. Arab and Palestinian nationalism is deeply intertwined with antisemitism and an uncritical adoption will make you antisemitic.

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