If you're looking at video of missiles raining down on Tel Aviv with schadenfreude rather than horror it's time to sit with and interrogate that feeling.

Israel's crimes are real, and so are the crimes of the US. But those missiles aren't just falling on the political "other" they're falling on human beings like you. Do you deserve to be blown to bits for the crimes of our rulers? How will killing you (and thus your resistance energy) stop them? Remember how ghoulish it felt to hear MAGA cheering for the dead schoolgirls last week? This is a mirror image of that.

The heart of an antiwar worldview is that no one deserves to die at the hands of nationalist violence. We must exemplify that consistency or our position gets flattened into partisan tribalism, which serves the cause of empire. The crimes of the nation-state are not justice and they can never be justice no matter how cathartic it feels to your sense of injustice.

For true justice to take root, nationalist violence must cease.