Washington’s foreign policy strategists have made a pivot on Palestine, one where they’re preparing for a victory by the “progressive” Jewish colonizer faction. There are two big pieces of evidence for this: Trump’s White House not opposing the sanctions on the West Bank settlements that were recently imposed by France, Canada and the UK; as well as Hillary Clinton furthering the narrative that Netanyahu wanted Hamas to carry out October 7. Though Hillary Clinton obviously isn’t very relevant, her affirming the “October 7 was a false flag” idea tells us that both the Democratic and Republican establishments believe this is the narrative framework to use.
After October 7, the Democrats entered into an alliance with MAGA, centered around the goal of crushing the pro-Palestine movement. The Democrats now share the Heritage Foundation’s desire to purge our institutions of all left-wing voices, which is the precursor to a criminalization of international solidarity work. This means that when the Democratic establishment’s voice is fully promoting the propaganda of the liberal Israelis—wherein Netanyahu is viewed as a deviation from the true “good” Israel—the ruling class overall now seeks to propagate this framework. The Zionist right has been discredited in the eyes of the masses, who’ve undergone a fundamental consciousness shift on Palestine; so the best way to maintain Jewish settler-colonialism is by returning it to its “democratic” past, as the liberal Zionist narrative goes.
We are capable of destroying the “progressive” Zionist faction’s perceived credibility, like we did to the Trump-Netanyahu wing. But to do so, we will have to show why and how the workers movement must get behind Palestine’s anti-colonial fight; the real fight, not the performative “peace” overtures by Zionism’s comprador agents. Bringing the unions to this position doesn’t mean breaking anti-terrorism laws, as the Democrat union gatekeepers will claim; it means refusing all pressures to condemn the resistance, while coordinating a boycott of the Zionist occupier among the unionized workers.
In July 2025, the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions called for the world’s workers to do this, telling us in its statement A Cry Before Death that
We address you today once again, not merely as victims, but as the workers of Palestine: an integral part of the popular and working classes of this world, struggling for justice, liberation, and dignity. And we call upon you to:
Break the silence and complicity, raise your voices within your unions and federations, and denounce the policies of starvation, siege, and massacre in Gaza.
Pressure your governments to end arms deals and military cooperation with the occupation, and to impose sanctions on the Zionist settler-colonial and apartheid regime.
Boycott companies that support the occupation, and withdraw union investments from any company, institution, or entity involved in funding or profiting from the war.
Organize days of rage and global solidarity in factories and workshops, in ports and airports, in the streets and public squares, in support of Palestine and its brave people.
It is this strategic and tactical clarity that can revitalize the pro-Palestine movement, bringing the masses away from the fraudulent liberal “Palestine allies” who are now being lifted up. A critical question we must bring to the “democratic socialists” and the other “progressive” Zionists is whether they’re willing to assist in these next boycott efforts; if they say no, we’ll be able to draw a very clear line for the people to see. We’ll be able to show who’s behind the next phase of the genocide, the phase where the killings are being done by the “good” Israelis.
Whether the liberal and “labor” Zionists come into office depends on how effectively the Netanyahu wing strong-arms the settler electoral system. If Netanyahu’s coalition wins, I predict the media will still majorly platform the “good” Israelis, but with the message that the Zionist project must be started anew. We’ll see interviews with defectors from the settler state who are motivated not by an opposition to Palestine’s colonization, but by a desire to fulfill their fantasy of a “progressive” Zionism.
This propaganda will be about making us sympathetic to these “righteous” colonizers who see that “Israel has lost its way,” with the goal being to use “progressive” Zionism as a smokescreen for the next U.S./Zionist aggressions. (And also to make people give Jewish supremacists the benefit of the doubt, allowing the massive Zionist influence networks to sabotage pro-Palestine organizing throughout our local communities.) If the “good” Zionists win, though, we’ll have a chance to expose their true nature.
The moment that “progressives” and “socialists” come back into power within the settler entity, all of the opportunists who falsely proclaim support for Palestine will have their lies revealed. The “democratic socialists” will have to answer why their counterparts within the “progressive” Israeli faction are continuing the bombings, torture, and starvation policies. And “labor” Zionist entities like Greece’s KKK will see their beloved Communist Party of Israel have authority, then inevitably act complicit in the genocide’s next phase. Should these “left” Zionists get their wish, we will need to make it backfire on them by showing what the “good” Israelis are doing. As the entity’s crimes continue under the “good” Zionist government, we should keep bringing up statements like the KKE’s “On the war in the Middle East,” which asserted that the anti-Zionist position is unfair to the supposed “Israeli working class”:
The Israeli people are also a victim of the policies of the bourgeois state of Israel and the reactionary Netanyahu government. This statement was met with hostility by certain forces of the “World Anti-Imperialist Platform”, which do not recognize the existence of the state of Israel, nor the existence of the Israeli bourgeoisie and the Israeli people, calling it a US base that must be destroyed. These forces refuse to see that the root cause of everything that the peoples are experiencing is the barbaric exploitative system in its current stage, the monopoly one, where the struggle between the monopolies and the bourgeois classes is intensifying and is being waged by all means, for the exploitation not only of the workers of their countries but also of other countries for raw materials, transport routes for the commodities, geopolitical footholds and market shares. And the bourgeois state of Israel and its bourgeoisie is such a geopolitical foothold for the USA and the EU and not only a military base.
Let these words—which the KKE has quietly removed from its site—continue to haunt those who put them out so confidently during a sectarian fight three years ago. We should especially keep throwing them in the faces of the “socialist” Zionists if the Israeli election goes the way the U.S. empire is hoping. This is the strategic pivot our movement should prepare for. It’s how we can take advantage of the irreconcilable divisions inside Jewish settler society, which were always going to bring the entity to its doom anyhow.
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