I don't know what all the fuss is around Mohammed El-Kurd. He's shallow, his poetry is uninspired, and his politics boil down to a fantasy that he will one day destroy another people. This post is an excellent example of his basic incompetence. He compares Zionism to Nazism (zing!) to explain that Israel should not exist. Except that no one who fought Nazism insisted that the German nation has no right to exist. The analogy doesn't prove Israel must be destroyed, but that it gets to exist irrespective of its mistakes or misdeeds. He claims that anyone who says "Israel has a right to exist" is a racist. Here I kind of agree with him. No one confers upon us a "right" to exist. Our existence on this earth, our identity and our homeland are their own justification. The very idea that it's a debate, that our existence stands in judgment before the world, is racist. And yes, I'm a big fan of Palestinian independence too, if anyone's asking. El-Kurd is a shallow extremist peddling the dumbest version of 1960s Palestinian anti-colonialist ideology. Why do they celebrate him?
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