Richard Mellor
It is important to not lose sight of the fact that the Houthi's disruption of and attacks on shipping in the Bab el Mandeb Strait has not included commercial shipping but ships carrying arms and supplies, particularly US and Israeli, to Israel that allow the continuing genocide the Zionist regime is carrying out against the Palestinian people.
The Houthi's have made it very clear that the attacks will stop if the US/Israeli genocide stops. So we have a situation here where one of the poorest countries in the world, suffering years of bombing by the Saudi's on behalf of the US, is being bombed once more, directly by the US this time, in order to protect a genocide made possible only by US money and weapons.
The Houthi's political slogans and their views in general have religious content to them. Norman Finkelstein, who has made it clear he supports the actions the Houthi's are taking to stop the slaughter in Gaza, gave what in my opinion is the correct answer, to a Zionist who asked him how he can reconcile that support given the anti-Jewish slogans that are part of the Houthi's political lexicon.
The workers' organisations in Europe and the US should refuse to handle any product bound for or from the Zionist regime, this would stop the slaughter in Gaza. Unfortunately, the leaders of the workers' organisations support the foreign policies of their own governments, we are witnessing this as workers in various nations join their governments in the nationalist campaigns against Trump's tariffs.
It appears international solidarity is simply a talking point and goes out the window when it is the necessary strategy for liberation.
The Finkelstein exchange is in this video below:
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