National Students for Justice in Palestine describes its mission as “supporting over 400 Palestine solidarity organizations across occupied Turtle Island (so-called North America).” I think both friends and foes of the anti-Zionist movement understand that they are sincere in their desire to delegitimize the Israeli state, and it’s worth taking seriously the fact that there is a parallel (albeit more far-fetched) movement to delegitimize the United States of America and that this needs to be contested by American liberals in a real way rather than appeased. Not least because it’s hard to explain what’s wrong with the increasingly deranged tenor of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration rhetoric unless you’re able to articulate the values of traditional American civic nationalism.