I have a problem with the generally accepted narrative that fascists can't create any culture/don't have any culture but rather appropriate from others; something I've seen repeated about Israelis in light of the genocide happening in Gaza.
I think it's a dangerous narrative; it is almost dehumanizing, therefore deligitimizing —but from a quasi-leftist pov.
this, I'm sure, is reassuring to antifascists/anti-zionists, respectively; but it overlooks, imo, that every culture will always build, as well any other culture, upon the materials they find themselves in: Nazis built their culture around German antisemitism and Israel built their culture against islamaphobic orientalist racism.
this was still a culture, continues to be so.
to deny so, I see, as a sorry sort of justification that tries to invalidate, on the former end, Jewish Identity in Europe, and on the latter one, Palestinian resistance; but in doing so also underscores their own point by undermined the ability to validate one cultural identity against another when one delves anywhere that's beyond a skindeep examination.
what this means is that we have to develop better ways to address what has been till today generally accepted truisms in light of the genocide happening in Gaza by Israel and of the occupation which is the context in which it has been happening for almost a century.
we can't accept the narratives handed down to us by the past century when we see the deliberate destruction of a people unfold before our eyes in a way our predecessors promised would never again again happen.
