If We Let Palestinians Hijack Our Cause, Maybe It Will Get Some Attention

by Kirk Mulholland, Clean Beaches activist

Charleston, May 23 – Here in South Carolina it can be be a challenge to attract people, let alone significant funding, to support the goal of keeping our coastline in beautiful condition. I have concluded that the only way to ensure our issues of concern garner coverage is to invite or allow anti-Zionist activists to co-opt our movement, since that always generates more buzz than anything we could ever do.

I know the decision carries important risks. Chief among them, that anti-Zionist hijacking of a movement, like anti-Zionist hijacking of an airplane, seldom, if ever, ends well for either the movement or the anti-Zionists. But since our activist group has little to lose anyway, we have nowhere to go but up. We wager that the short-term attention we can attract by making the cleanliness of South Carolina’s beaches a Palestinian issue will more than outweigh the proven disadvantages such as gutting our movement and sowing discord among its members. What are we accomplishing as it is, I ask you all, that anyone would seek to preserve or protect by keeping out the anti-Zionists?

I know what happened to the Women’s March and countless other organizations when they allowed “pro-Palestinians” to subordinate the progressive cause to demonize Israel. It’s happening at college campuses all over the country. Yes, in almost all of those cases, the hijacked organization becomes an embarrassing failure – but we’re already an embarrassing failure! We had to cancel six events in a row because I was the only one who showed up, and we’ve raised a grand total of eighteen dollars and forty cents in four months of activism. Maybe we can get some Soros or New Israel Fund money if we invite anti-Zionists to help steer this activist circle.

Glad to see you can see reason. The next step involves finding anti-Zionist activists interested in taking over our cause. Our challenge here is that they tend to look for causes that have already caught the public eye, because not being on the front page each day, apparently, hurts them in ways I cannot fathom. Under present circumstances I’m not confident our little group will appeal to them enough. That means we must take the initiative – we must do something to demonstrate our worth to the Palestinian cause, such as harassing Jews or vandalizing a Jewish cemetery, maybe even a synagogue.

Clean beaches, not ethnic cleansing! Unless the people being cleansed are Jews! Then it’s OK!

We’ve got this in the bag.

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