#im doing research/trying to find other resources online because FUCKKKK i hope this is regional because if the whole movement is like this

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considering leaving the pro-palestine activism movement altogether. I really, DEEPLY hope that the massive and dangerous issues I'm seeing within the movement are isolated to my local (physical/irl) area and community. it would be a new level of hopelessness if the movement overall has changed this way.

I feel like we're losing sight of why we're doing this. I fear that its being co-opted by outside movements and agendas, and by people with strong charisma and ulterior motives.

I want to make it clear that NONE of the "dangerous developments" I'm seeing are actually related to Palestine, Islam, the Middle East or even to how Jewish identity plays into all this

and that's why these developments are dangerous. I feel like the movement is being sidetracked, co-opted, and its paranoid but I even wonder if right-wing infiltration is happening because I'm hearing/seeing things that seem both so deeply destructive AND so deeply off-topic.

when I joined the movement last fall, it was primarily about Palestine, the US Military-Industrial complex, and imperialism... but the top goal was to FREE PALESTINE. There was also a lot of rhetoric about how "this is NOT a trend, it is NOT a short struggle, we will ALL be free, we must BUILD A STRONG BASIS and BUILD COMMUNITY because we are in this for the LONG HAUL"

now what I see is a movement, and a leadership, that treats Palestine as a justification for other agendas, and that is spiraling quickly and horrifically towards right-wing ideological niches, infighting, factionalism, and self-destruction with in the next few months if something doesn't shift FAST and shift NOW.

what happened to the long haul? what happened to a unified message? what was wrong with "free Palestine"? why do we americans ALWAYS HAVE TO MAKE IT ABOUT OURSELVES

what is HAPPENING?