1967 solidarity with Israel united leftists with colonial reactionaries on both sides.

Evidence

The metropolitan Left paid irs homage ro these contrasting situations by mobilizing support for the ANC but accepting the Zionist credentials ro the extent that the settler-colonial origins of the Zionist state, and the numerous distortions of the Israeli polity which are owed directly ro those origins, are now not even a part of the discourse of that Left. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 146 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 146

Broader Connections

• The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse #complicates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 146