• Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    312 days ago

    Once again the Zionist régime is only deploying an analogy that would work better in the opposite direction:

    Workers consistently and overwhelmingly claim that having no other choice is the reason behind them working in the [Zionist] settlements and putting up with the exploitative work conditions that are part and parcel of the settlement employment sector for West Bank Palestinian workers. The work, they say, is not a free choice but a necessity where no other options exist; a way to put food on the table, and scrape a living in the fragile, poverty‐stricken, and often dangerous environment of the occupied West Bank.

    It’s not hyperbole. There is no free or genuine choice regarding employment for many workers who have been systematically streamlined into settlement work. Who are, due to circumstances forced on to them, unable to turn down the exploitative and politically damaging settlement work or find any alternative. This idea of no choice has come about due to a combination of several [Zionist] policies that have purposefully stifled Palestinian development and growth throughout the occupied West Bank, in particular in the rural (read: Area C) communities that have suffered substantially from land annexation.