Great piece, thanks for sharing it. I felt like I was going crazy because I share many of the same views this person wrote, but since I am not in the “in group” it would be interpreted as antisemitic because I’m arab and that’s how we all look when we mention our gripes with Zionism or how much handwashing many Jewish people do for Zionism.
To be able to view the past 2 1/2 years and still think you are supporting the “good guys”, watching massacres, sexual violence, all broadcasted for the world to see, and to still be bloodthirsty? To donate money to that? To wave the flag with pride?
It’s unforgivable, in my opinion. And the author was correct about the liberal zionist talking points, even the “israel makes people more antisemitic” bit. People are happy to go along, sing kumbayah, pray for peace, but treat resistance with more scrutiny than the oppression. It’s not antisemitic to burn down a synagogue that fundraises for the IDF and hosts illegal land auctions.
And they were correct to scrutinize the ADL’s “antisemitic incidents” data as anything involving “israel” is antisemitic. Even the guy Elias Rodriguez clapped at the fundraising event, he wasn’t even JEWISH and they called it antisemitic. And why is the Capitol Jewish Museum hosting an event for “israel”? Would it be antisemitic to burn it down in protest?
The handholding of a group that has become intertwined with fascism, as if to absolve the crimes they commit, why the exception? Why is it not okay for white people to do it, but it’s okay for Jewish people to? Why do liberal “anti-zionists” do the same whitewashing? Pretending that peace is the only solution, saying it’s a genocide, but in the same breath denouncing October 7th as a terrorist attack instead of anti-colonial resistance?
Sorry for the rant, I’m disgusted by the smol bean mentality these liberals have when it comes to zionists, as if they’ve been granted the rights to be nazis because of something that happened to a great uncle of theirs.
Thank you, as a fellow Arab, it’s really frustrating having to hold my tongue when it’s obvious a supermajority of western Jews are fully on board with zionism. The entirety of my early life was based on denouncing ISIS, Al-Queda, and other Wahabbi extremist groups as not real Islam. Iraqis fought and bled to keep the salafi surge from taking over, Iranian forces trained thousands of militias to combat these fundamentalists wherever they were, and in the west my generation had it drilled in our heads that we must always act on our best behavior because we were representatives of our faith.
We are still fighting Wahabbism to this day, it’s a pervasive struggle that happens in every location where Muslims interact with. Entire online forums and communities are still in conflict between Wahabbis and non-fundementalist Muslims, with many more arenas opening up out of nowhere.
This constant back and forth struggle where I have to constantly denounce and sever myself from any Wahabbi influence (a easier task being a Shia admitly) is not something I see within the Jewish community. I’ve organized with anti-zionist Jews, and only so many of them were willing to be staunch on their support for resistance. There was one comrade in particular who I remember was Uncompromising in their support for resistance. To them, the Palestinians were fighting for their liberation and that’s all that mattered, who cared how many IDF soldiers or settler died trying to oppress them.
However that was a rare case, and more often then not, although I do see those people as comrades, as we genuinely organized to the best of our ability, these people could be tiring to deal with. Having to word my statements in ways that wouldn’t be misconstrued for secret antisemitism when sometimes I just wanted to say, “who cares what the Houthi flag says, they’re trying to stop a genocide.” Also a good variety of anti-zionist jews tended towards anarchism over Marxism-Leninism, so of course their were disagreements there as well.
Like, I can understand that material factors are the core to influencing a groups actions. But am I not a little justified as a Muslim to be bitter that when Jews are having their identity attacked due to the actions if zionism, many of them choose to hold on to zionism rather then fight it?
Great piece, thanks for sharing it. I felt like I was going crazy because I share many of the same views this person wrote, but since I am not in the “in group” it would be interpreted as antisemitic because I’m arab and that’s how we all look when we mention our gripes with Zionism or how much handwashing many Jewish people do for Zionism.
To be able to view the past 2 1/2 years and still think you are supporting the “good guys”, watching massacres, sexual violence, all broadcasted for the world to see, and to still be bloodthirsty? To donate money to that? To wave the flag with pride?
It’s unforgivable, in my opinion. And the author was correct about the liberal zionist talking points, even the “israel makes people more antisemitic” bit. People are happy to go along, sing kumbayah, pray for peace, but treat resistance with more scrutiny than the oppression. It’s not antisemitic to burn down a synagogue that fundraises for the IDF and hosts illegal land auctions.
And they were correct to scrutinize the ADL’s “antisemitic incidents” data as anything involving “israel” is antisemitic. Even the guy Elias Rodriguez clapped at the fundraising event, he wasn’t even JEWISH and they called it antisemitic. And why is the Capitol Jewish Museum hosting an event for “israel”? Would it be antisemitic to burn it down in protest?
The handholding of a group that has become intertwined with fascism, as if to absolve the crimes they commit, why the exception? Why is it not okay for white people to do it, but it’s okay for Jewish people to? Why do liberal “anti-zionists” do the same whitewashing? Pretending that peace is the only solution, saying it’s a genocide, but in the same breath denouncing October 7th as a terrorist attack instead of anti-colonial resistance?
Sorry for the rant, I’m disgusted by the smol bean mentality these liberals have when it comes to zionists, as if they’ve been granted the rights to be nazis because of something that happened to a great uncle of theirs.
Thank you, as a fellow Arab, it’s really frustrating having to hold my tongue when it’s obvious a supermajority of western Jews are fully on board with zionism. The entirety of my early life was based on denouncing ISIS, Al-Queda, and other Wahabbi extremist groups as not real Islam. Iraqis fought and bled to keep the salafi surge from taking over, Iranian forces trained thousands of militias to combat these fundamentalists wherever they were, and in the west my generation had it drilled in our heads that we must always act on our best behavior because we were representatives of our faith.
We are still fighting Wahabbism to this day, it’s a pervasive struggle that happens in every location where Muslims interact with. Entire online forums and communities are still in conflict between Wahabbis and non-fundementalist Muslims, with many more arenas opening up out of nowhere.
This constant back and forth struggle where I have to constantly denounce and sever myself from any Wahabbi influence (a easier task being a Shia admitly) is not something I see within the Jewish community. I’ve organized with anti-zionist Jews, and only so many of them were willing to be staunch on their support for resistance. There was one comrade in particular who I remember was Uncompromising in their support for resistance. To them, the Palestinians were fighting for their liberation and that’s all that mattered, who cared how many IDF soldiers or settler died trying to oppress them.
However that was a rare case, and more often then not, although I do see those people as comrades, as we genuinely organized to the best of our ability, these people could be tiring to deal with. Having to word my statements in ways that wouldn’t be misconstrued for secret antisemitism when sometimes I just wanted to say, “who cares what the Houthi flag says, they’re trying to stop a genocide.” Also a good variety of anti-zionist jews tended towards anarchism over Marxism-Leninism, so of course their were disagreements there as well.
Like, I can understand that material factors are the core to influencing a groups actions. But am I not a little justified as a Muslim to be bitter that when Jews are having their identity attacked due to the actions if zionism, many of them choose to hold on to zionism rather then fight it?