I know it’s cliche to point this out, but this is why Mandela was remarkable - not the teddy bear, billboard, inspirational version, but a guy who was a (justified!) violent nationalist revolutionary, who won, and then didn’t do mass violence. That’s pretty rare, and absolutely worth celebrating.
What I keep trying to emphasize to Palestine activists is that Zionism was once a national liberation movement for an oppressed people
The problem isn’t that Zionism is Jewish, the problem is that it’s NATIONALIST
Name me one nationalist militant group that won and DIDN’T curdle into brutality
