Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestine.
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    In 2018, the Knesset passed the Jewish Nation-State Law, which articulated very clearly that Israel was the nation-state of the Jewish people alone and, by implication, not of all its citizens (i.e. Palestinian “citizens” of Israel). The Jewish Nation-State Law is merely a clearer articulation of Israel’s founding structure. Despite this, most American Jews remain steadfast in their position that Israel is the “only democracy in the Middle East.”

    The realities on the ground are far from a democratic utopia. By design, Israel employs two forms of institutionalized racism – racism against Palestinians and racism against Jews who are not categorized as “white” (ie, Ashkenazi, or of European descent). This institutionalized racism is at the heart of the Jewish supremacist Zionist project in occupied Palestine, as shown throughout Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir’s The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine. Azoulay and Ophir reveal how the State of Israel creates a double exclusion of Palestinians – both as non-Jews and as non-citizens. Despite those who claim equality is possible within a future “reformed” Israeli state in occupied Palestine, this book reveals how such institutionalized inequality has actually become its own unique system of government. Occupation is the entire structure of the system of rule. This means that in pursuit of justice and equality, Israel cannot be reformed, it can only be dismantled and destroyed through the decolonial work of land back and the Palestinian right to return.

    Pretty much.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    1 month ago

    Herzl began imagining a Jewish supremacist state around the time of the first Zionist Congress of 1897. Despite its mythology, Israel was not created because of the Holocaust. Even so, early European Zionists like Herzl were developing plans for a Jewish state against the backdrop of Europe’s “Jewish Question.” It’s important to note that, in the late 19th century, things were very bad for Jews in Europe. But this “Jewish Question” was not Palestine’s problem until Zionists made it so.