An appeal: unite for "two states"!
In the Gaza demonstrations, rational, nuanced, coherent politics has been eclipsed in an eruption of Arab and Islamic chauvinism that is only in part to be accounted for by the horror at Israel's onslaught on Gaza and a possibly healthy gut identification with the Palestinians and their organisations. Young people, previously non-political - including young people of Muslim background - drawn to demonstrations because they want to do something about Gaza find the political space occupied already by Arab and Islamic chauvinists. The biggest forces on the "left" are on this question...