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The movement was really important, and the students’ radicalism helped shift our political frameworks. But it’s always hard to come to terms with people rising up under terrible conditions and doing something extraordinary, and that not having a material effect. I’ve been thinking a lot about how the Palestine solidarity movement long had a mandate to change minds. We were supposed to expose the American public to the reality in Palestine. We were supposed to expose the history of the occupation, the apartheid, the genocide — and by doing so, the thinking went, we would destroy the American support for Israel that is so crucial to Israel’s continuing as it is. And we absolutely succeeded in that mission. By spring 2024, the majority of Americans disapproved of Israel’s actions in Gaza, and wanted an arms embargo. And yet I’m not sure that the movement has saved a single life, and that’s extremely sobering. It speaks to the fact that we don’t live in a democracy; the majority of the American public can think something and only a tiny sliver of politicians end up supporting it. We’ve reached the limits of what moral outrage can do without material political power backing it up.
September 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM