the author said that while he has “argued for a Palestinian state for most of my life – since the 1980s, probably –"

He was born before the Nakba ffs, read Stalin on the national question:

III. PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION

A nation has the right freely to determine its own destiny. It has the right to arrange its life as it sees fit, without, of course, trampling on the rights of other nations. That is beyond dispute.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm

I am sick of smart guys pretending they do not understand the goal of national liberation movements. The struggle does not end when Palestine is recognised as a state.

ps have a nice day comrades, communism will win, up the P.F.L.P.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Dude’s name is pronounced like a fish, he doesn’t get how sunglasses work apparently and he wrote a book so shitty the ayatolla wanted him dead. What an asshole.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      Just in case anybody doesn’t know - small chance I know - I’ll leave this here…

      Salman Rushdie: Losing an eye upsets me every day

      Sir Salman Rushdie has spoken in chilling detail to the BBC about what he remembers of the attack two years ago, in which he was stabbed on stage. The Booker Prize-winning author said his eye was left hanging down his face “like a soft-boiled egg”, and that losing the eye “upsets him every day”.