The Free Palestine Movement is Re-Defining the American Left

Image by Hany Osman.

I grew up in the American far left and I’m really not exaggerating when I tell you that the movement saved my life. I discovered libertarian socialism and its various stateless subspecies at an age when I was feeling increasingly endangered as the last genderqueer kid on earth in the thick of rural Pennsylvania’s conservative Catholic pedophile country. I felt about as hopelessly ‘other’ as it gets until I discovered the Bush-era antiwar movement and began scraping...