A Note On The CNT-AIT (fRance)
A few months back I was made aware of the fact that the CNT-AIT are labor-zionists. I intended to write something about this but it never came to pass, so, just quickly.
The CNT-AIT (fRance) participates in Labor Zionist Conferences. https://youtu.be/xu0phfrxuZU?si
The CNT-AIT’s (fRance) comments on an event for Palestine held by their sister organisation in Spain.
The CNT-AIT (fRance) posted this rather tasteless infographic on the 13th of October, 2023.
The Toulouse section of the CNT-AIT (fRance) posted this article essentially making sparknotes of an annoyingly paywalled article by liberal zionists. Here it is the meat of the argument;
“The Israeli government has fed Hamas – letting it organize, conduct its humanitarian activities, and obtain money from all sources. Moreover, he was probably aware of the coming attack: he allowed Hamas to take the Gaza Strip, and allowed it to remain in power and train its fighters. The Israeli Government is therefore also responsible for the October 7 massacre.”
– Ilan Shalif – ‘Nationalists will not hate us’ [machine translated from https://cntaittoulouse.lautre.net/spip.php?article1375]
The article Ilan Shalif is referencing is here;
[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/what-palestinians-really-think-hamas#]
Let’s take a look shall we…
So, the first aspect with this article which should raise your eyebrows is the language they use. This was written while the IDF were carpet bombing homes in Gaza and yet, they have the balls to write;
“Continued violence [against Israel] will not bring the future most Gazans hope for any closer. Instead of stamping out sympathy for terrorism, past Israeli crackdowns that make life more difficult for ordinary Gazans have increased support for Hamas.”
Which on the first step equivocates anti-colonial resistance as “terrorism”, handing the legitimate use of force onto the coloniser, as usual.
What’s really odd is that an “anarchist” would cite an article that points out the universal fact that impoverished people don’t like the government they live under as some kind of proof that the struggle against colonialism is only a manifestation of the political organisations. Ignoring the civilian participation in the anti-colonial uprising on the 7th of October and in pretty much every other anti-colonial uprising since the beginning of the occupation…
Finally, let’s look at this rather laughable statement directed at the fRench left which not only repeats the slogan written on the back of the prison uniforms of tortured Palestinian detainees in “israeli” prison camps [*] but is again a rather stomach-turning piece, pearl clutching about the “poor little setters” that suffered under an anti-colonial uprising…
“Apology of the massacres of 7 October
As early as 7 October, we had a wealth of information [4]showing that the operation carried out by Hamas[5], Islamic Jihad[6][7], the PFLP[8], the FDLP and the Lions [9] had targeted to a large extent civilians, especially in and the Tribe of Nova music festival, with an anti-Semitic tone, pogromist and genocide.
Yet most of the statements by Emergency Palestine organizations characterized the “Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7, “resistance operation” and defended it, in defiance of crimes committed against civilians, massacred because of their supposed Jewishness.
This is the case, for example, of the Paris Suburbs Anti-Fascist Action (AFA-PB), which stated: “In the face of current events in Palestine, we can only side with the Palestinian resistance.”[10]
For its part, the Europalestine Association welcomed: “The Palestinian armed resistance, led by the military wing of Hamas (the Ezzedidine al-Qassam Brigades), which on Saturday achieved an unprecedented offensive against the apartheid regime,” rejoicing at “Netanyahu and his gang humiliated by the success of the resistance.”[11]
On 7 October, the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) recalled its “support for the Palestinians and the means of struggle they have chosen to resist (…)”.[12]
In a post on the recently deleted social network X, the Indigenous Party of the Republic (PIR) expressed its unambiguous position: “That the Palestinian Resistance, which conducts its action with determination and confidence in heroic conditions, receives in these terrible hours all our militant fraternity. Palestine will win, and its Victory will be ours[13].”
After calling Hamas and its allies “Muslim Resistance,” Muslim Perspectives condemned “the cowards and sneakers’ condemnation of the Liberators’ actions.”
For its part, the Permanent Revolution affirmed: “The right of the Palestinians to resist and to the fight against the aggressions and attacks of Israeli colonialism is indisputable to us. In this sense, beyond our political disagreements with the Palestinian leadership, we unconditionally defend this right, by all means that it finds at its disposal in such a complex situation, including armed struggle[15].”
Samidoun characterized the Hamas operation of “resistance indicating a new way forward” before taking over and without criticism the statement of Mohammed Deif, one of the Hamas military leaders responsible for the October 7 attack[16].
Finally, the UJFP compared Hamas to the Manushian Group, resistance fighters of the Hand of Immigrant Work (a majority of whom were Jewish) in the Franks-Tireurs et Partisans against the German occupation, suggesting that the Israelis would be the new Nazis. 17)
These statements converge all and, if a comprehensive inventory were to be made of the statements made by the organizations that are members or close to Emergency Palestine, there would probably be no substantive contradiction. There are indeed the elements of a political consensus that each and every one will appreciate.”
[https://cnt-ait.info/2024/03/15/lettre-ouverte-urgence/]
So yeah, fuck these lot.