Many leftists are extremely idealist and get swayed by Western opinion a lot. They dont support Hamas because Hamas are not the perfect MLs freedom fighters. This is childish and just gives ammunition to the liberals to discredit Hamas’ stance. This criticism of Hamas goes against the global decolonization cause. Every time a decolonial group fights against their oppressor, they are criticized even by leftists. Is this what Lenin referred to as left-com?
It sucks that people who one thought were comrades end up doing this. Like are we even on the same team or are you just a closeted liberal? It is crazy, unscientific and unmaterialistic to not consider Palestinian material conditions, and to not consider who they made their champions for this cause, but instead to apply your idealism to the situation.
There’s also the elements of millenarianism; millions of Christian Zionists support Israel because they believe it will immanentize the eschaton and bring about the return of Jesus, after which all Jews will either convert to Christianity or be sent to the lake of fire. If a Jewish state were established somewhere else they’d lose a huge chunk of support.
certainly, my point is just that that’s not the reason why the US continues backing “Israel”