After Israel Trip, Tamika Mallory Realizes Palestinians Liars, Becomes Zionist

“Zionism is a national liberation movement for Jews reasserting sovereignty in their ancestral homeland, and progressives should be all about that.”

New York, May 9 – A leader of the Women’s March social justice movement announced today that following her visit to Israel and Palestinian territories, where she met with local activists and saw the situation up close, she has changed her mind about expressing solidarity with the Palestinians, who she now understands maintain a false narrative of entitlement that only perpetuates conflict. Instead, she declared, progressives must side with Israel, which represents a progressive cause par excellence.

Tamika Mallory, 37, returned from a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories this weekend after an intensive series of visits with Israeli-Arab and Palestinian dignitaries, activists, residents, and journalists. A leader of the Women’s March with Palestinian-American Linda Sarsour, Mallory disclosed that she spent her return flight pondering what she had experienced and witnessed, coming to the conclusion that everything she had assumed or been told about the century-old conflict is a lie.

“It’s actually the Jews who are indigenous, and that’s been so obvious the whole time I’m kicking myself for swallowing antisemitic propaganda,” she wrote in a series of tweets. “Zionism is a national liberation movement for Jews reasserting sovereignty in their ancestral homeland, and progressives should be all about that, about taking back what’s rightfully yours.”

“Seeing the situation with my own eyes, all I can say is we’ve been duped,” Mallory continued. “I saw Arabs with Israeli citizenship and full political rights, and spoke to the leader of an Arab alliance of lawmakers in Israel’s parliament. That doesn’t square with any of the ‘Apartheid’ and ‘marginalization’ rhetoric that so many of us take at face value. It turns out, in my conversations with actual survivors of 1948, that the vast majority of Palestinian ‘refugees’ weren’t forced out by Israel, but left at the encouragement of Arab leaders hoping to get them out of the way and push the Jews into the sea. And Zionist leaders actually begged them not to go.”

“In fact Arabs in Israel fare better than Arabs anywhere else in the region by a significant margin,” she added. “All the accusations of Israel mistreating Palestinians en masse make no sense when you realize Palestinians have had self rule for a quarter of a century already, and at some point they have to stop blaming Israel and start assuming responsibility. I get the nagging feeling that the Palestinian national movement, and its many sincere supporters elsewhere, are more interested in destroying the Jewish state than in building a Palestinian one.”

Mallory declined to specify how she might reconcile her newfound consciousness and her friendship with Sarsour. “I like and admire Linda intensely, and I hope we can remain close friends,” she tweeted in response to the one Twitter reply of 650 that did not accuse her of abetting genocide. “Linda’s identity is linked to the accepted, but false, Palestinian narrative of forced dispossession by Jews, so I cannot expect her to just shrug at my change of heart. But I do hope she can one day see the truth and accept it even though it deprives her of legitimacy and the fame she so craves.”

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