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The western world finds itself in shock at a colonial
super power being caught off guard by a spectacular
attack - settlers and western spectators fanatically call
for blood because of the implicit threat, we could be next.
In response to their world class embarrassment, the
colonial state seeks a hundred eyes for an eye, thousands
of teeth for a tooth and wages an open campaign of
extermination against the Palestinian population they
hold captive.

Before our eyes this genocide plays out. The
ideologues of the colonial world rush to weigh one dead
Israeli against hundreds of dead Palestinians, one captive
against the thousands they hold in their prisons, the
violence of small arms and patch work rockets against 70
years of ethnic cleansing, 16 years of a total military
blockade on Gaza, and the constant airstrikes and
military operations of a nuclear super power.

Some anarchists, still filled to the brim with
enlightenment humanism, may rush to shout that we
must not support this, we must condemn Hamas and the
atrocities they commit! But who is this condemnation for?
‘The people of Gaza cannot hear us through the blockade,
over the rumbling of their empty stomachs, over the
constant airstrikes, over the wails of now childless
parents and now parentless children. And if they could
hear us? They would not care because we have neither
shipments of weapons, nor food and clean water, nor
medicine and doctors for them.

It is true that colonialism produces monsters but
first and foremost it is colonialism that produces them
and they are made in the image of the colonial project. If
we want to condemn monsters and atrocities we should
start with that of the colonizer.

But we cannot simply condemn. When bombs drop,
words mean nothing. We must think, we must act. It is
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through action that new connections can be made, it is
through action that solidarity becomes tangible. It is
through action that we may have tangible impact on the
occupation and open a meaningful, anti-authoritarian
pole of opposition.

I humbly offer these words for anarchists in the
region to chew on, think about, critique, adapt, and act
on to expand the struggle for the liberation of the
Palestinian people and to take steps towards the more
long term, more meaningful, more dangerous solidarity.

Educate, Agitate, Attack - Expanding
the Terrain of Struggle

‘The war isn't as far away as we think it is. Israel is
the forerunner in the development of counter insurgency
and policing techniques that get exported to the rest of
the world. What they do to Palestine, US police and
National Guard will do to us. But this isn’t a one sided
exchange. On one hand, large US corporations are
supplying physical infrastructure for apartheid and
genocide while on the other hand our taxes ~ compelled
as they are ~ are funding the terror in such a direct way
that makes us worse than accomplices, we are actively
pulling the trigger.



If we wish to take seriously the proposition of
solidarity we must move from a position of passive
supporter to making their fight our fight and going all in
with the risk it entails. From our region I would like to
propose a model of analysis and action. It’s a tool ~ take
what's useful and burn the rest. My proposal is a three
pronged strategy of Educate, Agitate and Attack. They
are not necessarily separate things though: the best
education can be disruptive and agitative, you can agitate
through attack, just as you can education through attack.
With a little creativity you can pull these three apart and
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reconfigure them in many exciting ways.

It’s important to note that these are not discrete
steps to a strategy, these are individual tools that work
well together, are not necessarily separate and should all
be done at the same time. Don’t wait to attack, don't get
stuck in education by deluding yourself into thinking a
critical mass of some abstract consciousness is needed to
act further.

Education and Counter-Information

I think many anarchists take for granted how
plugged into news of the world we are and assume
everyone has the same access to information we do. Not
only is this plainly wrong but its also forgetting that most
the information people readily have access to is beholden
to private ideological interests (in this region that is
largely Sinclair Broadcast Group and The McClatchy,
Company), state ideological interests, or more frequently
a deluge of false information for profit via social media. If
there is one thing that anarchists are about 20 years
behind on, it’s that information warfare is a key aspect of
revolutionary struggle.

Every day the enemy's news is churning out
bullshit, internet ideologues are writing their silly little
blogs and tweets, and state militaries and intelligence
agencies run bot armies to churn out nonsense to pollute
the information ecosystem. The knee jerk response would
be to say we simply need to do what they do, but better!
But for anarchists this is a dead end. We are not here to
produce an endless stream of content for passive
audiences, nor do we have large funders to pay for the
infrastructure of a national 24/h news network nor bot
armies (though for the technically inclined, bot armies
may not be that out of reach but that requires analysis of
its own.) No, we must be more creative and prioritize

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educational interventions in physical space.

Some examples are of course the classics, graffiti
and wheatpasting consistently (consistently as in maybe
once every other day to keep areas plastered, not once
every few weeks.) There's also setting up a table on a
corner, in a park, in random areas with zines, handbills
about whats going on, handbills about upcoming events
and try to talk to passerbys. But we can get a little more
exciting and, if you will, a little more cringe. If you're
wheatpasting, why not do it in the middle of the day in
outrageous costumes or in black bloc to specifically draw
attention to it? Why not take some friends and a loud
speaker and go set up in a busy area (ideally blocking a
road or doing something disruptive like shooting
fireworks) and talk about what's going on? Handbills
with more information to give out to people - or to just
throw in the air by the hundreds ~ help a lot too. What
about street theater? Again, ideally being as disruptive as
possible with it. Just generally things were you can get
people to stop and look and engage them.

Then we can also get a little more daring with it.
Maybe it's time for pirate radio to make a comeback. You
can broadcast over other stations during rush hour about
whats going on and how people can find out more. If
there's a mass demonstration, why not do a break away
march to a radio or TV station, get inside and force your
way on air? This may seem risky and far fetched, but
there’s a genocide going on, what are you waiting for?

Ultimately education and counter-information only
goes so far. Ideally we want to have face to face
conversations with people, we ideally want to have an
upcoming event or meeting to invite them to so they have
a tangible next step. Having handbills with more
information and with links to where they can learn more
about whats going on and learn more about upcoming

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events is key.

To boil it down: Share information and offer people
a tangible next step.

Agitation and Disruption

To educate is not enough. We aren't going to learn
our way to freedom, information alone will not stop a
genocide. Neither, in most cases, will agitation and
disruption but it is a start. When I talk of agitation I am
talking of moving people to action ~ hype people up and
give them a tangible list of targets and possible actions.
When I am talking of disruption, I specifically mean the
disruption of normal economic life. This is key both for
general anarchist struggle and because of how deeply
entwined daily life in the US is with the funding and
logistical support of the ongoing genocide of the
Palestinian people.

When we think about disruption we need to be
thinking about blocking commerce ~ stop transactions at
stores and banks, disrupt the daily functioning of
businesses and institutions that support or profit from
the apartheid and genocide, block the transportation of
people and freight. We also need to be thinking about
breaking the spell of normality, that everything is fine.
‘An economic impact and a psychological impact. Every
disruption is a chance to communicate and to educate.
Well worded banners and handbills, good chants and
songs. Sometimes a speech can be useful to fire people
up, but be careful because a speech makes a passive
audience. Think big - how can we get people to act.
Spreading and generalizing the conflict is key.

There are some long held disruptive tacties -
protests that block traffic and intersections, though even
better is taking those protests into businesses and
institutions and getting them shut down for the day.
Pickets at businesses and institutions that support and
profit from the genocide. Highway or major thoroughfare
blockades are great, but even better if you set up a hard
barricade with banners and one open lane and have a
handbill to give every car that passes. Blockading
railways, with either shunts, sabotaging the tracks or
physical blockades on the tracks are great to block
commerce.

These require much more coordination and effort but
boycotts and blockades are effective. There is a long term
boycott campaign ~ Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) ~ that
can be plugged into and has a lot of information. If that’s
a little out of reach, the places to be boycotted can be
continually disrupted and shut down, or their
merchandise in stores can be stolen ~ ideally brazenly en
mass - or otherwise sabotaged.

The idea is to bring the struggle from some far away
place home and face to face to people so they cannot look
away and pretend everything is fine and that it has
nothing to do with them. And we have to think long and
hard about how we approach this so that our actions and
our messaging encourages people to act without waiting
for a call to act or a single day of protest, we need to
constantly push the idea that we are all protagonists in
struggle, that we cannot wait for others to do what we
can and that there are targets within our reach and a
whole range of ways to engage.

Attack!

Fundamentally, solidarity means attack. To
physically destroy the infrastructure of oppression and
genocide. This is what's going to do the most damage, is
most likely to hamper the abilities of the genocidal
structure to function, but this is also the most risky.

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There are two - complimentary ~ ways to approach this.
First is as small crews and second is as large crowds.
One needn't look far to see what small groups do as
anarchists regularly carry out small group actions. From
broken windows to arsons to breaking into labs and
slaughter houses and releasing captive creatures. All of
these tactics can successfully be applied to the struggle
for the liberation of the Palestinian people.

But we should think long and hard about our goals.
Sure, a small group of us could go burn down some
Amazon or Boeing infrastructure, but how much more
powerful would it be if we got 1000 other people to storm
and ransack the place with us? At any point we can and
should undertake small group action but if we are trying
to expand the terrain of struggle it is so a fuck ton of
people will engage in brazen, combative action and this
takes a lot of time, building relationships, bold action and
communication on our part, and careful planning.

In some instances this could be planning a
combative breakaway march for the next mass
demonstration, in other instances this could be taking the
risk and putting in the effort of calling for our own mass
combative action. But whether small group or mass
action this entails risk and requires immense effort but
this is fundamentally what it will take to open up
another front in anti-colonial struggle to spread thin the
colonizers.

It’s crucial to dispense with the long held idea that
we cannot be the cause of major upsurge and revolt, that
we can only take a role of support and intervention. What
is possible for us to do is largely determined by how much
effort and consistency we are willing to put into a given
line of struggle over a long period of time. We are usually
bad at this, but it doesn’t have to stay this way and to
truly live up to the immense task laid before us in the

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imperial core it cannot stay this way.
Setting Sights

What follows is a small and non-exhaustive list of
targets that support, prop up and/or profit off the ongoing
apartheid and genocide in the Salish Sea region.

First and foremost, every town and city will contain
any number of people in power, businesses, non-profits,
institutions, ete, that support Israel and push their
propaganda. With some research these can be found and
become prime targets. If nothing else we should make the
territories we are in socially, and ideally physically,
hostile to zionists. They're certainly doing this to people
who support Palestinian liberation with people losing jobs
and being black-listed from various industries and
institutions.

Secondly, since Israels founding in 1948 the US has
sent over $130 billion in aid. Between 2018 and 2022 the
US has sent $5.7 billion in military equipment via the
Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) process, and since 1992
the US has given an additional $6.6 billion worth of
military equipment through the Excess Defense Articles
program. U.S. European Command also maintains in
Israel the U.S. War Reserve Stockpile, which can be used
to boost Israeli defenses in the case of a significant
military emergency. All of this information comes from
the Department of State (https://www.state.gov/u-s-
security-cooperation-with-israel/).

All of this money comes out of our taxes. When we
pay rent and our landlords use that to pay property tax,
a portion of that funds the Israeli war machine. When we
make profit for our bosses and they use some of that to
pay property tax, or pay to their landlord so they can pay
property tax, we made money for the Israeli war machine.

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When we get paid and a chunk of that is taken for
income tax, that goes to the Israeli war machine. The
things we are compelled by the occupying military at

home to do fund both the occupying war machine here
and there. It is critical that we find ways to engage in
long term rent and labor refusal.

Third, 2,200 soldiers from the 26th Marine
Expeditionary Unit along with the USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and the USS Gerald R
Ford Carrier Strike Group are in the region with orders
to be ready to deploy. The military has also moved
multiple military advisers to Israel to advise their ground
invasion of Gaza. While today storming JBLM would just
be a dream, what we can do are disruptions of and
attacks on military recruiting centers as well as pushes

to remove military recruiters from schools and
universities. We can also take lessons from the Port
Military Resistance should the need and opportunity to
physically block the shipment of soldiers and military
equipment arise. We should as well remember from PMR
when the US military sent intelligence officer John Towry
from JBLM to physically infiltrate activist and anarchist
spaces.

Fourth, multiple tech companies which provide
digital infrastructure for the apartheid and genocide have
major infrastructure here in Washington. This includes
Google with offices in Seattle and Kirkland, Microsoft
with offices in Seattle and Redmond, and Amazon with
offices in Seattle. Amazon also has Amazon Stores in
Seattle and Whole Foods ~ which they also own ~ all over
the region. There are also Amazon Distribution Centers
in DuPont, Sumner, Seattle, Bell as well as one up north
in Delta, British Columbia.

Fifth, Boeing which has major infrastructure in the
region, has sent bombs to Israel. They have offices as

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well as a manufacturing area in Everett as well as offices
in Seattle and Auburn.

Sixth, Starbucks which is all over the region and
headquartered in Seattle is suing the Starbucks Union
over a statement in support of Palestine.

Seventh, Various police forces and agencies train
with the IDF and bring the tactics and strategies they
use against the Palestenian people back here to use on
us, Seattle opposed a resolution to bar SPD from being
trained by the IDF (https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-
struggle-seattle-wont-bar-local-police-from-training-with-
israeli-forces/), police in Georgia train with the IDF
through the GILEE program which puts local Cop City
targets on the table (for more info, see https://
www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org), and ICE/Border Patrol
who maintain a heavy presence in the region along with
the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma train with the
IDF (https://deadlyexchange.org/immigration-and-
customs-enforcement-ice-and-deadly-exchange/)

Seventh, the BDS movement maintains a large list
of corporations and institutions supporting apartheid. The
major corporations which they identify and many of which
are to some degree or another in the region or contracted
with another corporation, business or institution in the
region are: Elbit Systems, Google, Amazon, HP and
HPF, CAT, JCB, Volvo, Hyundai Heavy Industries,
Chevron, Siemens, CAF, G4S/Allied Universal, AXA,
PUMA, Carrefour, Booking.com, Airbnb, Sabra, Barclays,
Expedia.

This is a pretty surface level list of targets. More
research is needed to get specific addresses, names and
addresses in individuals involved, contractors and
subcontractors ete,

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Solidarity in the Long Haul

What I have written here is for the short and
medium term, but solidarity is a long term affair and
unfortunately anarchists don't have the best track record
with long term struggle. This can and must change. We
must continue to be in the fight once the news moves to
the next catastrophe. A year from now, ten years from
now, until the day Israel falls and the Palestinian people
are free.

Solidarity implies risk and danger, that part of
making their fight our fight is also putting our bodies on
the line. Do we got where the bombs are dropping to
build personal connections with insurgent communities?
Here the liberals have us beat and we can look to the
example of Rachel Corrie who went to the occupied
territories and was murdered by the IDF when she put
her body between an armored bulldozer and the house of
a Palestinian family that was to be demolished. She
should be alive though and the struggle doesn't need
more martyrs.

But for us to show up in a strange context with no
connections will likely get us killed. We must build
connections with individuals, crews and organizations
active in struggle. The first step of this is learning the
language which I see as the primary first step of
international solidarity. From here we make connections,
sometimes this can be facilitated by friends, by networks,
by organizations or by the internet. Then we need
structures - formal or informal matters not - to facilitate
and sponsor bringing comrades from other places here to
talk about their struggles, and to send us to their
territories to see for ourselves, to make more connections,
and to fight with them and face the same dangers they

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face.

From this basis of connection and affinity we can
begin to approach more sophisticated aspects - how do we
forge documents? How do we smuggle money, people,
supplies, information, food, weapons across borders?
‘These things may seem far off and fantastical to us but
this was the bread and butter of our forebears and what
internationalism necessitates. In the past revolutionary
and anti-colonial movements could rely on a super power
bloc to help them with these things - with strings
attached. We never could rely on such a thing, nor is
there even such a thing to rely on anyway. What we do in
our region and what others do in theirs ~ how we fight,
how we make connections, how we communicate ~ must
be the seeds of a black international that can position
anarchy as a global force of opposition that can provide
material aid to liberatory struggles so people are not
forced to choose between two or three different tyrants.

This is a long term project, we're talking 5 years, 10
years, 20 years. But this is what true solidarity
necessitates, this is what an anti-nationalist
internationalism necessitates. The task laid before us is
enormous in scope and we will either rise to the challenge
or once again fall obscure into the dustbin of history. The
choice is ours.

Further Resources

Here are some further resources to help facilitate
taking action.

PugetSoundAnarchists.org ~ Regional clearing
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house for anarchist news and analysis. Send your events
and calls to action, your communiques and reportbacks,
your critique and analysis. This is a tool for talking to
each other, use it.

Unravel.noblogs.org - A national clearing house of
anarchist and combative action, for keeping up on the
national struggle.

NoTrace.how ~ A collection of tools to help
anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of
their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and
ultimately act without getting caught.

WarriorUp.noblogs.org ~ View with
Tor(www.torproject.org)! A research project on techniques
for sabotaging capitalist infrastructure and extractive
industries.

EmpireLogistics.org/sci-map/ - Interactive
logistics infrastructure maps.

DeadlyExchange.org ~ Information on US police
training with the IDF.

NoTechForApartheid.com ~ Information on the
tech sector support of the Israeli apartheid regime and
resistance to it.

BDSMovement.net ~ Information on the Boycott,
Divest, Sanction campaign, with lots of information on
various businesses and institutions supporting the
ongoing genocide.

DecolonizePalestine.com ~ Introductory
information on the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

t.me/s/fauda_ps ~ Telegram channel for the
anarchist group Fauda. In arabic so use DeepL translate.
Lots of information on the situation in Gaza and the West
Bank.

t.me/s/PalestineResist - Telegram channel for the
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Resistance News Network, lots of information from Gaza
and the West Bank on the situation and resistance to the
invaders.

theanarchistlibrary.org/ibrary/fredy-perlman-
anti-semitism-and-the-beirut-pogrom - Anti-Semitism
and the Beirut Pogrom



theanarchistlibrary.org/ibrary/alfredo-m-
bonanno-anarchism-and-the-national-liberation-
struggle - Anarchism and the National Liberation
Struggle

archive.org/download/the-wretched-of-the-earth/
The%20Wretched%200f%20The%20Earth.pdf - The
Wretched of the Earth

mondoweiss.net/2023/10/operation-al-aqsa-
flood-was-an-act-of-decolonization/ - Al Aqsa Flood
was an Act of Decolonization

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