Norman Finkelstein on his parents' gratitude to Russian people for liberation from the Holocaust

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You know, these are for me… even at my age, these are acts of deference to the suffering of my parents. My parents felt a very deep love for the Russian people, because they felt the Russian people understood war. They understood what my parents went through [in the Warsaw Ghetto & Auschwitz] during World War II, so there was a very deep affection… My father even, at the end of his life, he learned fluent Russian because neighborhood is all Russian. And you know, Polish to Russian is not a huge leap but also he liked the Russian people. So in my family growing up, the worst curse (insult)… there were two curses, two curses: curse number one was “parasite”. You have to work. My parents had a very… they had a work ethic. Believe me, I could have lived without the idea of pleasure, it didn’t exist in my house: you had to work. And the second word, the second curse, the second epithet was “traitor”. A traitor. And I know my parents would regard me as a traitor if I denounced what the Russians were doing now. How they’re doing it, as they say, probably there are violations and maybe egregious violations of the laws of war, we’ll have to wait to see the evidence, but their right to protect their homeland from this relentless juggernaut, this relentless pressing on their throats, when there was such an easy way to resolve it…

George Burchett on Vietnamese liberation of Cambodia from genocidal Khmer Rouge

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In 1975, North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam won the war against the USA. The country was finally reunited. And it was swiftly declared an enemy of humanity, ostracized by the international community and denounced as a Stalinist state by sections of the Left. When Vietnam liberated Cambodia from the genocidal Khmer Rouge, there was an international uproar. Joan Baez marched to the Thai-Khmer border to demand the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia and the return of the legitimate government of Democratic Kampuchea – meaning the Khmer Rouge. The US, UK, Australia, China, Thailand and others backed and armed Pol Pot.  

I don’t know what evil pact Henry Kissinger made with the Chinese leadership in the 70s. But it worked. Not only did Vietnam become an international pariah, but the western Left split, disintegrated and made itself irrelevant.  

Communists and independent voices, like my dad’s, who supported Vietnam, were labelled "Stalinists" and stooges of Moscow. Maoists, Trotskyists and assorted leftists were denouncing Vietnamese imperialism. Quite a few were later reborn as neo-cons, clamouring for Iraqi blood. 

In France, former Maoists, re-branded themselves as "nouveaux philosophes" and became the new darlings of the French media and Paris salons. The spoiled heirs of rich families, like the ineffable Bernard Henry-Lévy, got bored or disillusioned with their former "revolutionary" activities and were pontificating about human rights – including Pol Pot’s democratic right to return to his killing fields. 

The bourgeoisie was reassured. Their sons and daughters had finally grown out of the "revolution" and were denouncing its evils. 

So that was the end of the "glorious decade". My dad went on reporting the horrors of the Khmer Rouge and the wars in Angola and Mozambique, but by that time he was labelled a Stalinist, a stooge of Moscow, a KGB agent etc. by both Right and Left. He resigned from the New York Guardian, for which he’d been writing weekly for 25 years, because the editors either refused to publish or censored his reports from Vietnam and Cambodia, in which he denounced Chinese aggression against Vietnam and her support for the murderous Khmer Rouge. The Guardian, like much of the Left, was toeing the pro-China, anti-Soviet and anti-Vietnam line.

The bragging

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Harris couldn’t outrun her past or her party— it was a vice grip that proved impossible to escape.
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The lowest-ranked concerns were that Harris wasn’t similar enough to Biden (-24), was too conservative (-23), and was too pro-Israel (-22). 

Look at people's top ranked issues & how foreign policy including Middle East was net 0% in how it influenced vote for Harris. Plus my posts
Yet people including @caitoz & @SocialistMMA bragged about how leftists had turned ppl from Harris b/c of Gaza genocide

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Trump did not win this election. Harris was defeated by a Gaza-inspired boycott
The Republican candidate’s victory over Kamala Harris wasn’t due to his surge in popularity but a conscious choice by millions to boycott the vote over the Democrat-backed genocide
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Therefore, the most plausible explanation for the low turnout for Harris that cost her the elections compared to Biden in 2020 is a conscious decision by millions, not just Arab and Muslim Americans in the swing states but across the nation, to boycott the vote.

Indeed, millions of other conscientious Americans voicing their principled and strenuous objections to the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which was cruelly supported by a morally corrupt political class, also boycotted the elections.