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Man sets himself on fire outside Israeli Consulate in Boston
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I feel like self immolation is a psyop to keep people from adventurism. Cause like this is depressing depressing.
Before I would've said it seems to be the action people take when they're totally dedicated to non-violence even against people actively involved in genocide. But even that other dude was former military, so I don't know.
I'd much rather these people go down raising hell than just go down. If they're going to sacrifice themselves because they see no other way then the adventurist sacrifice is better than this, it at least might scare the shit out of the bourgeoisie.
Maybe it might be useful doming some major gentile zionist, but I think traditional adventurist actions like that tend to just be used as a pretext for cracking down on the left, while self-immolation so far is not, so I think it's really the less harmful option.
Maybe if you can get an Israeli general or something, just because disrupting their operation might actually sink them at this point, while anyone could die in the US and the arms would keep flowing.
But really both suck and should be denounced as anti-social behavior.
It being “less harmful” implies whatever the westerners are doing in protest currently are useful enough that disrupting it would become harmful to the cause.
I think shattering the existing BDS movement would be bad, actually, even if we wish it was more effective. It has still gotten some institutions to divest.