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00:00 Preface
03:20 Context
19:23 Other Insurrections & Refat Alareer’s Analogy
23:51 The Israeli Response: A “Mass Hannibal” Directive
37:36 Blood Libel and the Myth of the Palestinian R4p!st
47:15 Ground Invasion
1:00:37 The Art of War and Isreal's Strategic Vacuum
1:09:51 The Palestinian Authority: A Tool of Israeli Counterinsurgency
1:17:19 Counterinsurgency (COIN) vs RMA (Revolution in Military Affairs)
1:30:29 Hostages as Leverage: A History
1:35:39 The Five-Year Rule
1:36:57 Moving Ahead
1:43:30 Lessons from the Resistance

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00:00 Intro
06:35 The Anti-Semitism Accusation is an IDPsyOp
07:21 #Necropolitics and Counterinsurgency
09:16 The Three Major Zionist Achievements
14:46 Hasbara and the Luntz Report
18:25 Consequences
20:16 Strange Bedfellows? Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the "Father of the Accusation" Shmuel Ettinger
29:01 The Origins of "the Jews"
34:01 Today's Genetics is the 19th Century's Race Science
49:13 Counter-Identity
49:46 A Definition of "Jew"
50:57 Response to @PhilosophyTube

Further viewing/reading: Roadmap to Apartheid (2012), The Occupation of the American Mind (2016), The Law in These Parts (2011), Advocate (2019), The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006).

Sources

Atzmon, Gil, et al. “Abraham’s Children in the Genome Era: Major Jewish Diaspora Populations Comprise Distinct Genetic Clusters with Shared Middle Eastern Ancestry.” American Journal of Human Genetics 86, no. 6 (June 11, 2010): 850–59.
Baker, Cynthia M. Jew. Key Words in Jewish Studies 7. New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London: Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Bender, Arik. “Hazan vs Lucy Aharish: ‘Seduced a Jew to Harm Our Country.’” Maariv, 2018.
Berman, Lila Corwin. “Jewish History beyond the Jewish People.” AJS Review 42, no. 2 (November 2018): 269–92.
Bernstein, Jesse. “Diverse Anti-Semitism Panels Focus on Interconnectedness.” www.jewishaz.com.
Cockburn, Patrick. “The Secret Report That Helps Israel Hide Facts.” The Independent, July 29, 2014.
Cohen, Hillel. Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967. University of California Press, 2010.
Costa, Marta, et al. “A Substantial Prehistoric European Ancestry amongst Ashkenazi Maternal Lineages.” Nature Communications 4, no. 1 (October 8, 2013): 2543.
Das, Ranajit, Paul Wexler, Mehdi Pirooznia, and Eran Elhaik. “The Origins of Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews, and Yiddish.” Frontiers in Genetics 8 (2017).
Falk, Raphael. Zionism and the Biology of the Jews. New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2017.
Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State. New York: Dover Publications, 1988.
Reuters. “Homophobic Political Ads Are Legal, Israeli Judge Rules,” August 7, 2019.
The Jerusalem Post. “Israel’s Tech Ecosystem Ranked #3 in the World.”
Jackson, Allison. “Europe’s Most Peace-Loving Countries Export A Huge Amount Of The World’s Weapons.” Business Insider.
Joint Publication 3-24: Counterinsurgency, 2018.
Lerner, Hanna. Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Luntz, Frank. “The Israel Project’s 2009 Global Language Dictionary.” Confidential Report. The Israel Project, 2009.
Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Translated by Steve Corcoran. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Middle East Monitor. “15 Jewish Extremists Arrested for Assault on Arab Men Dating Jewish Women,” 2017.
Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publ, 2007.
Jewish Voice for Peace. “Pinkwashing.” http
Sand, Shlomo. The Invention of the Jewish People. London ; New York: Verso, 2010.
Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. New York: Henry Holt, 2000.
Shohat, Ella. “The Invention of the Mizrahim.” Journal of Palestine Studies 29, no. 1 (1999): 5–20.
Simeonov, Nigel O’Connor, Photos: Lazar. “Gay Palestinians Are Being Blackmailed Into Working As Informants.” Vice (blog), February 19, 2013.
Spector, Scott. “Forget Assimilation: Introducing Subjectivity to German–Jewish History.” Jewish History 20, no. 3–4 (December 27, 2006): 349–61.
Ury, Scott. “Strange Bedfellows? Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Fate of ‘the Jews.’” The American Historical Review 123, no. 4 (October 1, 2018): 1151–71.

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The full video builds upon the essay "The Gaza Ghetto Uprising," published in The Brooklyn Rail on May 1st, 2024.

Praise for "The Gaza Ghetto Uprising":

"A brilliant analysis from an Israeli comrade." ( - Andreas Malm.)

"Likely the best article on the events surrounding October 7th." ( - Idris Robinson.)

Read it here: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/05/field-notes/The-Gaza-Ghetto-Uprising

Zine print edition (flip on short edge for double-sided print): https://haters.noblogs.org/files/2024/05/GGU_2024_Print-reformat.pdf

Idris Robinson revisits and expands upon his seminal essay.

In the aftermath of the CHAZ occupation in downtown Seattle, “How It Might Should" was a public talk surveying the horizon of revolutionary potential uncovered by the George Floyd Rebellion during the hot summer of 2020. The essay of the same title, published in Ill Will that August, is seen in radical circles as one of the definitive texts of the uprising. In ten putative theses, ranging from identity politics, the current pandemic, to the legacy of black revolt, the essay sought to facilitate a more direct and focused discussion regarding the stakes of emancipatory transformation at the very heart of empire.

Since the uprising, the crisis has only deepened, presenting new possibilities and dashing others. In this new lecture, Idris both reassesses and expands upon previous themes, such as a theorization of civil war as stasis, an examination of the abolitionist race-traitor through the lens of a political theology of martyrdom, and the libidinal death-drive suffusing American racial dynamics.

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"How It Might Should Be Done" 1.0, produced by Red May TV: https://youtu.be/cQeW7RPkCZQ

Robinson, Idris. “How It Might Should Be Done.” Ill Will, August 16, 2020. https://illwill.com/how-it-might-should-be-done.

Throughout his work, Frantz Fanon was consistent on two things:

1. The necessity of violence for decolonization/revolutionary struggle.
2. The powerlessness of identity-based politics.

In this video I focus on #2, surveying the majority of Fanon's works, from his recently recovered early play "Parallel Hands" (1949) through the famous Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and Wretched of the Earth (1963) as well as his shorter works collected in Towards the African Revolution and A Dying Colonialism, to argue that Fanon articulated a thorough critique of contemporary identity politics before it had even emerged.

Along the way, I discuss some of the problems in the various translations and interpretations of Fanon.

In the backdrop you'll find some of what Fanon might call "cleansing" or "detoxifying" scenes to set the stakes and uh - exfoliate. I'm grateful to @Cine Ma for compiling most of the archival footage: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcPKvGpsoKz8sgMaE2yuE3g

Sources:

Césaire, Aimé. Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier d’un Retour Au Pays Natal. Edited by Annie Pritchard. Translated by Mireille Rosello. Bloodaxe Books, 2020.
Fanon, Frantz. A Dying Colonialism. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. Nachdr. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2007.
———. Alienation and Freedom. Edited by Jean Khalfa and Robert J. C. Young. Translated by Steven Corcoran. London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
———. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Richard Philcox. 1st ed., new Ed. New York : [Berkeley, Calif.]: Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2008.
———. Les damnés de la terre. La Découverte / Poche, 2016.
———. Peau noire, masques blancs. Points. Paris: Éd. du Seuil, 1975.
———. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1963.
———. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove, 2004.
———. Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. New Evergreen ed. New York: Grove Press, 1988.
Sayles, James Yaki. Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings. Chicago, Ill.: Spear and Shield, 2010.
“The Struggle to Decolonise the Mind: Frantz Fanon and His Irish Translator, Constance Farrington | MR Online,” February 4, 2022. https://mronline.org/2022/02/04/the-struggle-to-decolonise-the-mind/.
Wynter, Sylvia. “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of "Identity” and What It’s Like to Be ‘Black.’” In National Identities and Sociopolitical Changes in Latin America, edited by Mercedes Duran-Cogan and Antonio Gomez-Moriana.

Selected sources:

Churchill, Ward, and Jim Vander Wall. The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars against Dissent in the United States. 2nd ed. South End Press Classics Series, v. 8. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002.

Cohen, Hillel. Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Collective, CrimethInc Ex-Workers. “The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis : An Account and Analysis.” CrimethInc., 2020. https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/10/the-siege-of-the-third-precinct-in-minneapolis-an-account-and-analysis.

Collective, The Combahee River. “A Black Feminist Statement (1977).” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 42, no. 3 (2014): 271–80. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2014.0052.

ContraPoints. Jordan Peterson | ContraPoints, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqZdkkBDas.

Deleuze, Gilles. “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” The Anarchist Library, 1990. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control.

Fisher, Mark. “Exiting the Vampire Castle.” The North Star, November 29, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131129003704/https://thenorthstar.info/?p=11299.

Haider, Asad. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump. London ; Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018.

Nevada. “Imaginary Enemies: Myth and Abolition in the Minneapolis
Rebellion.” Ill Will, November 21, 2020. https://illwill.com/imaginary-enemies.

PlasticPills. Deleuze - Control Societies & Cybernetic Posthumanism, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY.

Robinson, Idris. “How It Might Should Be Done.” Ill Will, August 16, 2020. https://illwill.com/how-it-might-should-be-done.

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Sources:

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove, 2002).

James Yaki Sayles, Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings (Chicago, Ill.: Spear and Shield, 2010).

Watch "The Gaza Ghetto Uprising" youtu.be/Pt_1k7nSv1M

or read (a slightly shorter version) in the Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/05/field-notes/The-Gaza-Ghetto-Uprising/

For more about the Prairieland Case: prairielanddefendants.com

https://truthout.org/articles/these-dallas-residents-are-on-the-front-lines-of-trumps-war-against-antifa/

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/13/the-road-to-prairieland-the-crackdown-on-anti-ice-activists-in-texas-reflects-a-pattern-of-intensifying-repression

https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/24/new-details-july-4-ice-attack-holes-feds-case/

Sources: Data from People Over Papers (via Star Tribune) https://archive.ph/Moak9

Great zine about the tactics of the movement "Dispatch, Please Advise!" https://antidotezine.com/2026/01/27/dispatch-please-advise/

Article about the rapid response system https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/rapid-response-networks-in-the-twin-cities-a-guide-to-an-updated-model

Broader picture and media war https://illwill.com/lies

"A City in Arms": Some of my writing from the Twin Cities https://adicallai.substack.com/p/a-city-in-arms-four-vignettes-from

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