I feel like most non-Jews don't realize the extent to which Diaspora Jews like myself serve as unwitting shields for Israeli Jews.
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I feel like most non-Jews don't realize the extent to which Diaspora Jews like myself serve as unwitting shields for Israeli Jews.
when violence happens to us, the Powers That Be turn it around and use it to beg empathy for Israeli Jewish colonizers.
and when we try to assert that, no, this is happening both because the rise of fascism is bringing a new wave of antisemitism to the fore, and because Zionists have created widespread propaganda designed to associate all Jews with the Israeli imperialist project, the tacit or outright response we get is: "if you don't want antisemitic violence done to you, you can always move to Israel."
with the implication that, because Diaspora Jews are unwilling to become genocidal colonizers, we're complicit in any antisemitic violence done to us.
and this, too, is antisemitism - the product of a warped synthesis of fascist ethnostatism and Zionist Christians' desire to see us wiped from the face of the earth so that they can usher in Biblical prophecy.
I and other Diaspora Jews shouldn't have to become a participant in Zionists' genocidal colonial project in order to escape antisemitic violence.
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I feel like most non-Jews don't realize the extent to which Diaspora Jews like myself serve as unwitting shields for Israeli Jews.
when violence happens to us, the Powers That Be turn it around and use it to beg empathy for Israeli Jewish colonizers.
and when we try to assert that, no, this is happening both because the rise of fascism is bringing a new wave of antisemitism to the fore, and because Zionists have created widespread propaganda designed to associate all Jews with the Israeli imperialist project, the tacit or outright response we get is: "if you don't want antisemitic violence done to you, you can always move to Israel."
with the implication that, because Diaspora Jews are unwilling to become genocidal colonizers, we're complicit in any antisemitic violence done to us.
and this, too, is antisemitism - the product of a warped synthesis of fascist ethnostatism and Zionist Christians' desire to see us wiped from the face of the earth so that they can usher in Biblical prophecy.
I and other Diaspora Jews shouldn't have to become a participant in Zionists' genocidal colonial project in order to escape antisemitic violence.
@YKantRachelRead yeah and the Israeli government is fine working with antisemites cause not only do they not care about Jews becoming targets of antisemitism, they benefit from it cause they want to push more diaspora Jews to migrate to Israel and want Israeli Jews to feel like they have nowhere else safe to go.
on the flip side then it means anyone that wants to stop Israel from using this to their advantage should help to make sure Jews can be safe in the diaspora and those that use the acts of the Israeli government to justify their antisemitism play exactly into their hands and are useful tools for fascism at best. -
@YKantRachelRead yeah and the Israeli government is fine working with antisemites cause not only do they not care about Jews becoming targets of antisemitism, they benefit from it cause they want to push more diaspora Jews to migrate to Israel and want Israeli Jews to feel like they have nowhere else safe to go.
on the flip side then it means anyone that wants to stop Israel from using this to their advantage should help to make sure Jews can be safe in the diaspora and those that use the acts of the Israeli government to justify their antisemitism play exactly into their hands and are useful tools for fascism at best.@elexia I was just about to add something to the OP along the lines of: "that's not even getting into the difficulties we face when bringing antisemitism up in leftist/social justice circles, where non-Jews are perpetually ready to dismiss our concerns as inconsequential compared to the Palestinian genocide. because even there, everything always has to be about Israel."
but I feel like you summed that up more than well enough in your second paragraph
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I feel like most non-Jews don't realize the extent to which Diaspora Jews like myself serve as unwitting shields for Israeli Jews.
when violence happens to us, the Powers That Be turn it around and use it to beg empathy for Israeli Jewish colonizers.
and when we try to assert that, no, this is happening both because the rise of fascism is bringing a new wave of antisemitism to the fore, and because Zionists have created widespread propaganda designed to associate all Jews with the Israeli imperialist project, the tacit or outright response we get is: "if you don't want antisemitic violence done to you, you can always move to Israel."
with the implication that, because Diaspora Jews are unwilling to become genocidal colonizers, we're complicit in any antisemitic violence done to us.
and this, too, is antisemitism - the product of a warped synthesis of fascist ethnostatism and Zionist Christians' desire to see us wiped from the face of the earth so that they can usher in Biblical prophecy.
I and other Diaspora Jews shouldn't have to become a participant in Zionists' genocidal colonial project in order to escape antisemitic violence.
@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems All my Jewish friends, of a my generation, were raised with the belief that Israel was their last refuge from any creeping antisemitism. I've listened and watched as they've struggled with Christian Zionists working hand-in-hand with Israel and the genocide in Gaza. It's difficult to then remind them than that antisemitism is quickly rising in the US, as self-proclaimed Israel supporters in MAGA start falling back to ur-conspiracies and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Sadly, I believe this is just going to get worse, at this point.
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