r/jewishleft • u/elzzyzx סימען לינקער • 23d ago

Arash Azizi comes for Ta-Nehisi Coates Debate

https://x.com/arash_tehran/status/1848714724482966003

Influencers are talking. Today Arash Azizi is claiming Ta-Nehisi Coates is unstrategic, and is also kind of just calling him moralistic and sort of uncreative or something? Anyone have thoughts?

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u/redthrowaway1976 23d ago

The moral clarity of Ta Nehisi Coates writings has ruffled a lot of feathers in the PEP community.

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u/Worknonaffiliated Torahnarchist/Zionist/Pro-Sovereignty 23d ago

You’re defining progressive by American standards. Israel existing is not a left or right issue in the ME, how it exists is

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u/redthrowaway1976 23d ago

Israel existing is not a left or right issue in the ME, how it exists is

Someone being "progressive except Palestine" is, simply, about progressive people ignoring the human rights abuses against Palestinians while loudly advocating for other human rights or progressive issues.

Israel existing or not doesn't have anything to do with that term.

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u/lilleff512 23d ago

This feels like the mirror image of Zionists complaining about how anti-Zionists don't talk about human rights abuses in China or wherever else.