“White supremacy” applied to the Israel-Palestinian conflict? Where have I heard that term before? Oppressor v. Oppressed is always the default orientation of the woke left, whose ideologues equate power with depravity and powerlessness with virtue. Through this bifurcated lens, the “weak” Palestinians are the perennial victims, and the “strong” Israelis are the perennial victimizers, with no room anywhere for nuance of any kind. Some woke Progressives go further and see successful Jews as oppressors of other minorities and even of poor whites, shading into rightwing antisemitism of the type
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