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is bad. This is what my main man Fredy Perlman was talking about near the end of "The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism".

"The idea that an understanding of the genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle the system, is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is truer, namely that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of holocausts has led people to perpetrate holocausts. The sensitive poets who remembered the loss, the researchers who documented it, have been like the pure scientists who discovered the structure of the atom. Applied scientists used the discovery to split the atom’s nucleus, to produce weapons which can split every atom’s nucleus; Nationalists used the poetry to split and fuse human populations, to mobilize genocidal armies, to perpetrate new holocausts.

"The pure scientist, poets and researchers consider themselves innocent of the devastated countrysides and charred bodies. Are they innocent?"

And like, seriously. Perlman was addressing people who talked about the Holocaust, and he was addressing Maoists like J. Sakai and company. People who rooted their analysis in crimes very much in the recent past.

You're blaming Palestinians (modern-day ones) for things that (check notes) ancient Italians did to Judeans (not even" Jewish people", cuz a lot of what it meant to be a Jew hadn't been defined yet) close to 2000 yeara ago. Because they still use an Arabic word that is more or less the same as the Roman name "Palestine". It's a fucking bonkers way to look at history, but I suspect your need to justify your anti-Palestinian/anti-Arab racism clouds your ability to see how flawed your logic is.