#when really structural liberatory change for palestinians is what's needed

[hollytanaka]

lol someone I followed really reblogged something that implied “from the river to the sea” is antisemitic and all equations of Zionism with colonialism are antisemitic.

I hit that block and unfollow button so fast 🏃🏽‍♀️

how do you study the intellectual origins of zionism and not see how it's rooted in european colonialism lol. zionism is not a monolith; i understand there are variants of it as an ideology. but my god some of the first zionist settlers in palestine self-described/identified as colonizers lol. and the entire field of settler-colonial studies basically agrees that the creation of israel was a zionist settler-colonial project; the two are related.

also 'from the river to the sea' isn't about exterminating jews -- be so fucking for real.

using your position as a 'leftist jew' to be so loud in spaces made up of arabs + palestinians + people from the global south (communities that are always, always being silenced by westerners) and to then discreetly repeat anti-palestinian talking points and get away with it in the name of 'being nuanced' is fucking disgusting.

in any context, it would be gross. but it is especially so in the midst of a genocide where nearly 7000 innocents have died within a matter of days.

#mari.txt #palestine #i was gonna put citations but imma save that energy for my actual phd thesis not for explaining basic history to lowkey closeted zionists #this is why yes calls for a ceasefire are needed #but that is not the end goal #i suspect many americans/europeans think that's all they need to do #when really structural liberatory change for palestinians is what's needed #not simply a pause in this 100-year massacre #settler colonialism is not an event it's a structure