Man Struggles To Explain Science Behind Prioritizing Palestinian Issue In Climate Change Policy

“Most progressives kind of take for granted that the Palestinian cause sits at the nexus of all the world’s important challenges. It’s hard to articulate why that is, to the uninitiated.”

New York, July 25 – A demonstrator outside the United Nations enjoyed only mixed success today in his attempts to convey to passers-by the empirical evidence to support his contention that addressing global environmental challenges requires first and foremost addressing Israeli treatment of people under occupation.

Tariq Jamal, 25, held a one-man vigil outside UN Plaza today, engaging pedestrians and visitors in discussion of the climate crisis and how combating Zionism advances that end. Nearly a third of the people who stopped to listen or talk nodded along, but the remainder requested that he elaborate on the mechanism by which a country of nine million people, a tiny industrial output, world-famous ecological pioneering, and negligible relative impact on the environment can occupy such a key position in the decades-long global effort to stem global warming and its related ills. Mr. Jamal strained to provide his interlocutors with solid information beyond sloganeering and intersectional jargon.

“I thought it would be self-evident,” he admitted. “Most progressives kind of take for granted that the Palestinian cause sits at the nexus of all the world’s important challenges. It’s hard to articulate why that is, to the uninitiated. We just know it, deep in our bones. The fact that people who have not had the privilege of being educated just shows how effective Zionist propaganda has been.”

Most of the activist’s attempts faltered. “I’m not well-versed in explaining the obvious,” he yelled. “You’re blind if you can’t see how the Zionist-military-industrial complex oppresses Palestinians through pollution, fossil fuels, and manipulation of capitalist-industrial markets so they can achieve hegemony at the expense of indigenous People of Color. I shouldn’t have to lay it all out for you, You can see facts for yourself. Are you a Zionist?”

That rhetorical journey typified Jamal’s exchanges through the course of the late morning and the afternoon. A second activist joined him for half an hour later in the day, but proved no more adept at invoking sound science to buttress the Palestine-climate case.

“Probably the ones who refused to be convinced were Zionist provocateur agents,” the pair agreed. “That’s a well-documented phenomenon. If I’m not mistaken, Christians have been saying for more than a thousand years that it’s a Jewish trait not to see the manifest truth even when it’s pointed out. That would make sense with our observations out here today, as well.”

Jamal took a short break from being interviewed to accost a Hasidic family and call them Nazis.

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