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His leadership on Ukraine has been resolute, measured, and grounded in values like national self-determination and anti-authoritarianism.

The binary framing of the conflict today promotes the idea that to be a pro-Palestine advocate on the progressive left one must adopt specific norms — refute Jewish claims of complexity, avoid engaging with those who ask for dialogue, prioritize Palestinian national self-determination over Israel’s or a two-state solution, and accept Palestinian violence against civilians as justified resistance.

Instead, this is the last colonial war in the modern age, fought to establish the hegemony and the absolute rights of one people over the other, as expressed in the 2018 “Nation State of the Jewish People” law, which states that the right to national self-determination in Palestine “is unique to the Jewish People.”

Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of state, predicted that the promise of national self-determination that was used to justify many of the new states’ borders “will raise hopes which can never be realized. It will, I fear, cost thousands of lives. In the end it is bound to be discredited, to be called the dream of an idealist who failed to realize the danger until it was too late to check those who attempt to put the principle into force.”

During the First World War, as Britain invaded and captured the territory from the crumbling Ottoman Empire, it drew on growing forces of national self-determination.