The change is audible in the chants: “We don’t want two states, we want 1948” is the most explicit, putting this movement at odds with the settled position of the UK government, the international community, and the United Nations. It’s visible in the academics’
letters that were penned as soon as Hamas smashed though Israel’s border fence on that terrible October morning. It is implied in every social media post that rails against
76 years of settler colonialism, rather than 57 years of occupation. And it is tangible as the emotional driving force of this movement, which is in no mood for compromise.
Indeed, is difficult to find any prominent pro-Palestinian activist in the mainstream of this movement who is still campaigning *only* against the occupation of 1967. When people do talk about this it seems almost quaint; like a politics of a bygone age, as far from the cutting edge of pro-Palestinian activism as it is possible to be