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Fanon’s Seduction of the Left

Over the weekend, one of my friends from high school, a Harvard graduate, posted to Instagram an image of Hamas terrorists climbing atop a commandeered Israeli tank. Superimposed on the image was a quote by Frantz Fanon: “Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.” He might as well have used an image of the mangled body of one of the many women raped and tortured by Gazan men—it would have been more honest. 

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