A crucial part of why the Gaza genocide could get this far is because numerous ostensibly dissident political actors decided to de-center Palestine. The Democrat entryists within the left decided to muddle their pro-Palestine messaging, and make it just another issue next to a list of Trump-centered grievances. The right opportunists sold an absurd narrative about how Trump would dismantle the American imperial deep state, and in doing so ignored how Trump aimed to carry Gaza’s holocaust to the next stage. These cynical diversions from class struggle and solidarity enabled the genocide’s perpetrators to shove Palestine out of the spotlight, and thereby accelerate the extermination. This tactic of concealing the Gaza holocaust is only one aspect, though, of how our rulers have narratively sold this project to extinguish an entire people; the other aspect, the more advanced one, is desensitization. Their hope has been that over time, we would come to accept regularly broadcasted mass murder as normal.
A recent sign that we’ve now moved more towards the desensitization stage is the publication of much of the Epstein files, which was strategically done by one wing of the ruling class in order to normalize violence against children. Normalization has always been a psychological warfare method that Palestinians have dealt with; they’ve had to learn to fight back against the kind of manipulation where somebody asks you to compromise on what you treat as normal, because supposedly it’s a fixed part of reality. Our ruling class seeks to use the shocks we’ve experienced in these last few years—where we’ve seen countless videos of cold-blooded murder and documented sexual assault by our leaders—to make us passively accept everything.
Such a psyop would be exceptionally damaging if it were to succeed, and it has succeeded to an extent. Yet there is evidence that we can bring about the opposite outcome, where these shocks catalyze an unprecedented revolutionary popular struggle. Part of this evidence is found in the rise of the Luigi movement, which has proven that when the masses gain a powerful symbol of resistance, they will come together to advance the class war. These psychological tactics haven’t taken away our capacity for fighting back, they’ve only created conditions of paralysis that many are struggling to overcome. And they will overcome these conditions, if those of us within the popular revolutionary movements adopt practices which can lead the masses as they exist right now. The biggest problem at this moment is that the people within the empire’s core have been demobilized and disorganized; but this is not a fixed state of things, any more than Zionism’s existence is permanent.
To break the masses out of this state, we’re going to need to connect the American workers struggle with the Global South’s liberation struggle in ways that no one has been able to do thus far. I am talking about creating a synthesis between the class-conscious politics as it’s come to exist among the American people of today; and the revolutionary traditions that the peoples of the Global South have developed in their centuries of resisting exploitation. Reaching this synthesis will require actually living out the struggle’s next phases; but already, we know certain things about the politics which will let Americans overthrow their banking dictatorship, and thereby play their part in freeing the peoples who the empire seeks to exterminate.
We know that this politics will involve a collective effort to solidify the American nation; not in a chauvinistic way, but in fact the opposite way. There is no way that the American nation will be able to survive unless America’s people act in tandem with the Palestinian resistance, and with the other forces which are fighting against our imperialist government. It’s necessary to emphasize American nationhood in order to gain the organization required for effectively fighting on Palestine’s behalf, because we will only defeat the empire when we’ve clearly defined who is with or against the empire. The servants of the genocidal machine stand against the American nation; the American nation’s allies will be the ones who take part in the empire’s destruction.
We know that this politics will only be able to exist, as a real force that fulfills its liberatory role, when we’ve come to understand political struggle the way the Palestinians understand it. Those living under colonialism or neo-colonialism have had to figure out how to continue building popular power in the midst of the most extreme state terror. On an organizational level, they’ve needed to master the art of war, and the art of secret work; while on a societal level, they’ve needed to acclimate towards helping one’s neighbors amid constant existential danger. When everyone’s life is threatened, a people can’t afford the atomistic and narcissistic individualism that’s propagated by imperialist culture. The only way to survive amid apocalyptic destruction is through collective struggle, which our culture is hostile towards; but as societal collapse advances, more and more within the hedonistic societies will turn to the collective path.
We do not need to wait for things to get sufficiently bad before we can start organizing the masses. The only option, both morally and practically, is to do this work right now. To get a clear sense of what this work must look like, we can delineate between those opportunistic trends which turned their back on Palestine; and the actual solidarity movements that are doing something substantial for the liberation struggle. One example is the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, whose achievements throughout the struggle’s latest phase have been summarized by Khaled Barakat:
What is taking place today cannot be read as a mere accumulation of activities, but as a qualitative advance of a revolutionary condition that has become a genuine source of disturbance to the Zionist enemy and its allies. Within a relatively short period of time, the Alternative Revolutionary Path has succeeded in moving from a nascent framework to an international political actor, by building organizational and popular presence in North America and Europe, and by leading a series of conferences and popular mobilizations that have restored the centrality of Palestinian international action in the diaspora. This trajectory has broken the constraints imposed by the Madrid–Oslo phase, during which the diaspora was stripped of its role and relations with the world were confined to official channels and complicit regimes, at the expense of the natural relationship with peoples and liberation movements…
What the Alternative Revolutionary Path puts forward is not a ready-made formula for liberation, but a restoration of fundamental truths that were deliberately obscured: there is no liberation without organization, no resistance without the masses, and no confrontation with the Zionist movement without shattering the illusions of settlement produced by the Oslo era. From this standpoint, the March 2026 conference marks the declaration of entry into a new phase of open political confrontation, in light of the results of the ongoing genocidal war in occupied Palestine.
In this Palestine article, I have partly discussed the conditions of America because we must understand these conditions in order to truly fight for Palestine. If there’s no resistance without the masses, then it’s the responsibility of every Palestine ally around the world to galvanize the masses within their own countries, whatever this looks like for where they are. In America, it looks like bringing the revolutionary capacities of the people to the same level of advancement that the Global South’s masses have reached when they’ve been victorious. The further we get in this mission, the more we’ll be able to contribute to the upsurge that’s being put into motion by forces like the Revolutionary Path. Our enemies will try to extinguish us, but we know the alternative to facing these enemies. The alternative is to retreat, and act as passive observers while the devils of the world wipe out millions of lives.
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