In Episode 213 [14] of the CounterVortex podcast [15], Bill Weinberg notes how divergent responses to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians [16] and mass internment of the Uyghurs [17] reveal the West's shifting definition of genocide [18]. Tragically, elements of the Palestinian leadership merely reverse the double standard [19], causing elements of the exiled Uyghur leadership to balk at supporting [20] the Palestinians. Yet another example [21] of how a global divide-and-rule racket is the essence of the state system. Illustrating the irony, the same corporate nexus [22] is involved in putting in place the surveillance state that monitors the Uyghurs for China and the Palestinians for Israel. Fortunately, principled voices of dissent among both the Palestinians [23] and the Uyghurs [24] are calling for Palestinian-Uyghur solidarity [25].
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