History Repeating Itself

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

That great American wit (and anti-imperialist), Mark Twain, reputedly once remarked that history does not repeat itself — but it rhymes. Be that as it may, history right now does in fact seem to be repeating itself — once again in my own lifetime – and in a terrible and appalling kind of way.

This is all so deja vu.  Students on college campuses who are protesting against the U.S. government-supported Israeli genocide in Gaza are being smeared in...