Again, not an expert on this history outside of how it intersects with Palestine, but (perhaps paradoxically) I’m sympathetic to this on the surface. Socialists who aren’t… you know, the Soviet Union don’t have the best track record on chauvinism. Given that, I find it hard to blame a deeply persecuted ethnic minority for not trusting their fellow Socialists.
Netanyahu is not committing genocide. Netanyahu has not fired a single bullet or dropped a single bomb.
The Israeli “people” are committing genocide and literally no one in their disgusting society objects.
The one thing I would push back on/add is that “Labour Zionism” and the Kibbutzim were fundamental to the Nakba and the current Israeli Holocaust. Just like all the European chauvinists who dissolved the Second International, calling oneself a Socialist does not prevent anyone from pursuing parasitic class interests.
Agreed on all counts. Excellently put.
To help stop the genocide and prevent the future extermination of non-Gazan Palestinians.
Why not?
Definitely. There is nothing inherent to Judaism that orients people toward this behavior, hence the sharp generational divide. It is all about class. But if we’re going to be honest when we say that Israel doesn’t represent Jews, Jews need to start confronting their relatives the way everyone (correctly) insisted white people do about Trumpism.
I’m not an expert in religious history, but I really think Judaism could be heading for a schism over this.
There are orders of magnitude more Christians than Jews, but even given that, your experience has not been my own. I’ve come across thousands of Jews (American, Israeli, Dutch, etc) who support and defend Israel. 99% of American synagogues are explicitly Zionist and provide material support to Israel and the IDF. The genocide is being armed primarily by Christians, but it’s being carried out literally exclusively by Jews and with the approval of the majority of Jews.
If any other demographic had this much embedded Nazism, we would’ve been speaking about their role in empire the way we openly talk about Catholics, Evangelicals, Mormons, etc. Scots were once oppressed by the British Empire before they fully integrated and became valuable foot soldiers.
Every real Anti-Zionist Jew has my support, but if Judaism is going to survive, some very difficult conversations need to be had.
Or are Evangelicals still the designated sin eaters
Are people on this website ready to have conversations about Jewish supremacy yet
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That makes sense. Universalism is a threat to separatism.