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Maxwell Alejandro Frost (Photo: Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress)

Gen Z Democratic candidate for Congress Maxwell Frost seems to be a progressive in every way imaginable — except for Palestine. The 25-year-old Florida politician presents a particularly distressing dilemma for progressive Palestine advocates. His politics are not just progressive, but almost revolutionary in mainstream politics. And he is being celebrated by prominent Democrats. 

Palestinian refugees show papers proving their ownership of land marking the 74th anniversary of the "Nakba" or "catastrophe", at al Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza city on May 15, 2022. (Photo: Rahaf Aziz/APA Images)

For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told, even by their leaders, that the Nakba is a thing of the past. However, with Palestinian reality worsening under the deepening system of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid, Palestinians now understand that they have no possible alternative but their unity, their resistance and the return to the fundamentals of their struggle.