#and that the politics of israel are not synonymous with the politics of israeli people

[tanadrin]

Doing nothing would not have shown Hamas that Israel was different. Nothing Israel could do or can do will actually change the opinion of Hamas, or really the majority of the world, both because Israel has been held up for 70 years as the ultimate example of colonialist evil, and more importantly because it's "the Jewish state," and most people have already made up their minds about Jews.

“Nothing we could do differently would change how the world perceived is,” says country that has never tried to do anything differently.

This is clearly cope from people who uncritically endorse Israel’s chosen foreign policy, and are unwilling to face the extent to which the international perception of Israel is due to Israel’s own actions, and the ways in which Israel has tried to make its political identity synonymous with Jewishness. When you have Israeli politicians saying Jews who don’t endorse Israel’s policies aren’t really Jews, it be one’s very disingenuous to turn around and say “well, people only criticize Israel because they are prejudiced against Jews.” Israel has been working for years to conflate Israeli and Jewish identity! Israeli politics grants fundamentally anti-Semitic premises in order to try to shore up its own rhetorical position!

[bottledfool]

I'm trying to stay out of it, but if any criticism is going to lead to being called an antisemite or a nazi, those words aren't going to mean anything anymore. They're just a cudgel to deflect from criticism. We are either rapidly approaching or have already reached the point where no one is going to take antisemitism seriously.

I very much agree. Antisemitism is frequently downplayed and treated as not being a serious issue, and zionists using accusations of antisemitism to deflect from Israel's various atrocities is only giving more fuel to antisemites who are looking for an excuse to point at any Jewish person and say "See? They really are all just whining over nothing!"

The belief that criticism of zionism - defined as the support of Israeli colonialism, not whatever Nazis think zionism means - is necessarily criticism or hatred of Jewish people as a whole, is both incorrect and incredibly self-destructive. Defining zionism as synonymous with Jewishness necessarily argues that any (true) Jewish person would support apartheid and violent oppression of others, and that simply isn't true. Antisemites will use it as an excuse for why Jews are dangerous and trying to take over everything.

On that note, you know what else really doesn't help combat the antisemitic belief that Jews control the world? Israel's ongoing genocide being allowed to continue with absolutely no consequences from any of the countries who could stop them. Now, obviously this is because this aligns with those countries' financial and political interests, which is why they've historically supported Israel at all, but to an antisemite, they're seeing a smaller nation getting to dictate things like what is and isn't accepted speech in places like the United States, and most of the people in the government falling in line. We know the actual reason for this has nothing to do with Judaism, but to them, it's all confirming all the shitty things they already thought were true about Jews.

#israel #antisemitism #free palestine

[feral-ballad]

as a pro-palestine jew trying to justify myself to my family, I really appreciate the sources your blog is providing!! that being said, and this is a genuine question, hamas’s charter directly called for the annihilation of all jews. “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them.” how can you support hamas when they’ve said something like that? just as israel is not synonymous with jews, hamas is not synonymous with palestinians and it’s possible to support palestinian liberation without supporting an actively antisemitic organization. if you’re jewish and have somehow made peace with that statement then I can’t understand but I can respect it, but it doesn’t seem that you are, and there’s no way in my mind that I can as a jewish person get behind something so plainly calling for the genocide of jewish people. again this isn’t me trying to have a gotcha moment or whatever, I really want to understand

the lack of condemnation ≠ support of hamas. “hamas is not synonymous with palestinians,” you are correct. however, if hamas does not exist, palestine will be wiped out. condemnation of hamas serve to justify support for israel wiping them out. which means ethnic cleansing and a continuation of genocide. hamas is a resistance group operating in opposition of the oppressive israeli government. “it’s possible to support palestinian liberation without supporting an actively antisemitic organization,” no it’s not possible. do you hear yourself? who is going to liberate these people? the sky? our prayers? demanding the liberator (hamas) to be “perfect” while there’s a fascist oppressor is celebrated is fucking insane. this is not about islam vs. judaism. this is not about religion. before 1948, there was no such thing as “israel,” it was palestine, with muslim, christian and jewish arabs (and other religions). you claim to be pro-palestine, but you don’t like it when palestinians are defending themselves against their oppressor? the palestinians have EVERY right to defend themselves (despite whatever hamas stands for) in any way possible! you’re just simply falling for israeli propaganda. no one fucking mentions the countless crimes of the IDF that they have been committing for years because they can just be waved away with “but hamas!” lmao okay. you can’t say “free palestine” then condemn a liberation movement in the same sentence. not to mention, equating the resistance of hamas to israeli violence as if their magnitudes are even remotely similar.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMjqnFKcK/ (her videos are very informative btw)

so why don’t we stop talking about hamas and talk about israel instead? do you condemn israel for the 75 years of occupation and genocide? why don’t we talk about that instead, huh?

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free palestine #gaza #🇵🇸 #ethnic cleansing #genocide

[plaguedoctormemes]

This blog and the plague doc community, for me, is temporary relief from real-world hot-button issues and politics- not to say that this blog is neutral or that I refrain from being political (far from it) but due to some things ive noticed from some in this community im just like… *gestures vaguely* …stating this just to get this out there.

I think, no matter how much you may have personal stake in the conflict between Israel and Palestine, (apologies if this is almost over-said at this point but) there is absolutely no excuse for genocide. There’s plenty of info out there to indicate that the Israeli government is corrupt, and by extension the United States’s government, feeds its corruption like a gluttonous pig. It’s completely fucked up and I hate this damn country worse than I ever have before (The us i mean). So much it’s rage-inducing. Jewish Israelis and Palestinians are capable of living in peace, but everyone seems completely happy with taking away that peace, to push their own zionist or antisemitic agendas- ordinary people and politicians alike. It’s fucked up. And I know the United States government, aside from some representatives of color, couldn’t ultimately give less a shit about Israel nor Palestine after all is said and done, and regardless of whether or not Israel “”””wins”””” with their billions upon billions from the US and Palestinians “lose” (read: are eradicated). The US could, and likely will, wipe its ass of the entire affair.

And I absolutely hate to see otherwise well-meaning people, so-called progressive people, excuse or even support a genocide just because they think that speaking out against the IDF and the US support of it is somehow synonymous with antisemitism, or synonymous with doing a disservice to their jewish heritage. Last I checked, government entities and malicious organizations are not synonymous with an entire ordinary people. And in turn, ordinary people are not synonymous, and should not be synonymous or held accountable for the actions of those that govern them when they clearly voice opposition.

I’m not going to be answering asks about this nor am I going to engage with discussion about this on this blog since it’s not this blogs purpose, and instead im going to continue to try to carry this energy in more meaningful action outside of social media couch-activism, and i encourage anyone who happens upon this to also do the same. Shit’s fucking maddening.

#the doctor is in #palestine #not plague #i believe theres a lot of nuance but its by no means *complicated* and even less *too complicated to learn and have a stance*

[landrysg]

To simplify: liberalism is a political philosophy that’s centered around individual rights, equality, the rule of law, democracy, and free-market economics. There are many flavors of liberalism that emphasize these components in different ratios, running from more libertarian variants to others that see a much larger role for government. ...

The United States was founded on liberal, Enlightenment ideas. Appeals to classical liberalism are in some ways appeals to American tradition, therefore. Nonetheless, left-wing “American radicals and socialists” began calling themselves “liberal” because they wanted a departure from these traditions. Thus, in the United States, we wound up in a confusing position where “liberal” can either be a synonym for “left-wing” or can refer to European-style liberalism. The mainstream media almost always uses the former definition (“liberal” just means left). However, in Hayek’s view — and mine — we should return to the original definition of liberalism. That’s because liberalism describes something distinctive. ...

In the years following the fall of the Soviet Union, the distinction between “socialism” and “liberalism” gradually came to seem less necessary. Instead, the connotation of “socialism” shifted from “something adjacent to Communism” to “countries like Sweden with high taxes, free health care and tasteful furniture”. If you’re a moderate liberal like me, then Sweden-style democratic socialism might be somewhat to the left of your ideal point. But it’s still well within the acceptable range of outcomes — particularly since Sweden is a canonically individualistic, culturally liberal, WEIRD [Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic] country. ...

I’ve sometimes heard people express surprise that other people they knew (whether in their real lives or on social media) turned out to be more pro-Israel or pro-Palestine than they thought. To me, it’s almost been the opposite: the reactions have been highly predictable. Leftists tend to take the Palestinian side, and liberals the Israeli one; I think it was easier for me to see this because I’ve long been sensitive to the difference between leftists and liberals. Furthermore, these views tend to be correlated with other issues that divide liberals and leftists, such as free speech and even COVID restrictions.

[koheletgirl]

will you stop using very real traumas as talking points against ashkenazi zionists. i dont need to see people on my dash trying to minimize the yemenite children affair as a result of other ignorant people using it to be antisemitic. it happened, and it was awful, and there are multiple people who can tell you about it since it wasn't that long ago. it's also really none of your business if all you want to do is prove ashkenazim = evil white jews. the issues of racism in israel are very very real, and also have nothing to do with what's currently happening in gaza. you know nothing about the intricacies of israeli society. and i'd tell you more if i wasn't afraid of your utter inability to grasp nuance. i could tell you how "privileged ashkenazi" might as well be a synonym for "leftist" in the current israeli political climate, but then you'll start villainizing mizrahim. ashkenazi socialist zionists founded israel, and they did terrible horrible things to both palestinians and mizrahi jews. their ideological successors are now in the opposition. and none of it fucking matters, because israel is carrying out a genocide as we speak. stop trying to find a type of person you're allowed to hate, and focus on advocating for the people who are currently being massacred.

#i'd tell you to educate yourself but also literally why do you care #the fact that youre more focused on creating the evil white ashkenazi youre allowed to hate than on advocating for a ceasefire. says a lot #btw. not including '''non-white''' jews in your antisemitism doesn't make you less antisemitic #israel

[rainydaywhump]

Content about Palestine/Israel below.

I recently reblogged several posts regarding the Hamas/Palestine/Israel situation. I have now deleted them because I do not want my blog to be political.

My thesis focused on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). I currently work in a humanitarian nonprofit that works to secure mental health resources for people who are in or recently out of prison systems. I am continuing my research on CRSV for yet another nonprofit. For obvious reasons, I prefer to keep my blog separate from my work. However, I need to express my frustration with some common reactions that I see on social media.

1) Denying, then downplaying, then justifying the vicious rape, torture, and kidnapping of civilians is classic abuser behavior and is absolutely reprehensible. For example, calling Israeli rape victims "propaganda" or saying "the hostages looked fine to me, see, they're smiling at their captors!"

2) Denying, downplaying, then justifying the brutal occupation and degradation of civilians is classic abuser behavior and is utterly disgusting. For example, saying that Palestinian victims are "free to leave" or "inhuman" or "synonymous with Hamas."

3) an occupied population is an oppressed population. This does not justify war crimes committed by extremist members of that population. That in turn does not justify genocide against the occupied population. I shouldn't have to say that.

To anyone who follows the mentalities I just condemned -- you know what, with all the legitimate propaganda and misinformation out there, it's understandable in many cases. People who fall for mis/disinformation aren't evil. None of us are immune, especially with a conflict as devastating and infuriating as this. But please, please, please be aware that these mindsets exist and of how harmful they are.

That's it, really. I do not want to engage in this topic on this blog from now on. But I'm sad, I'm angry, I'm frustrated, and I needed to vent.

[mybeautifulchair]

Blind Obedience

At the time of writing, 17,700 Palestinians have been killed by Israel.

Mike Parr’s relationship with Anna Schwartz (the person and the eponymous gallery) ended in a two-sentence email on Friday, after the artist inscribed, among other things, the words ‘Israel’, ‘Palestine’ and ‘Apartheid’ on the walls of the gallery during a performance piece.

The inscription would not have come as a surprise: Parr has long worked with language in a way that is pointed and political. A piece from the 1990s, titled ‘Blind Obedience’, was made by opening the thesaurus and looking up the word Synonymous, which yielded the word Equivalent, which in turn yielded the word Identical, and then Alike, and so on, until at the bottom of the page, he arrived at the word Dead. As one word leads to another word, meaning is dragged and transmitted by contact. And what is language if not contact and transmission? But with each synonym, we are moved towards that last word. This is a kind of contact print. I’ve never been sure what the Blind Obedience of the work’s title refers to: meaning, and its traces? The flow and pull of language? The tyranny and indispensability of finding another word to say what you mean? The way meaning is never wholly under your control?

Anyway, the work seems to come back into view in a different way now. It foregrounds the way that language drags and charges itself up in contact, starting fires everywhere. If each word is an ember of meaning, the proper noun ‘Israel’ is a gale-force wind that blows meaning into a devouring fire. By the time he finished painting over the words with red paint, the room had caught alight.

A friend has a reaction that I do not expect. She feels the violence of Hamas ‘in her bones’ and worries about the rising tide of antisemitism. She takes her opposition to Israel’s immense violence for granted, but something else is happening beneath the surface of her skin. In this exchange, the word-ember is Context and it catches fire pretty fast. This is because in the mental thesaurus that is alert, always, to what is not being said, the word Context abuts Excuse, Prevaricate, Downplay, Permit, Condone [violence], Endorse [genocide]. To have context, in all its messiness, is an ethical way to live, I think. But ethical does not equal painless, or even kindness.

To her finely calculated credit, Anna Schwartz has not censored this work. As she points out, she has left the exhibition on display, though the word-embers were obscured, during the performance, by that layer of paint (though remain visible in the video of the performance). It also must be said that the artist wrote other things on the wall, including a painful description of Hamas’s actions on October 7. Things that we thought went without saying can no longer go unsaid. And yet, despite Parr’s deference to naming the brutal particularities of October 7, the word ‘Apartheid’ appears to be what caught fire. Perhaps this is because Apartheid has a specific meaning with legal consequences under the UN Apartheid Convention, and Amnesty International published a damning report on Israel’s policies in this respect last year. Perhaps, too, because it connects the Israeli State to the brutal white South African regime from which the term originated: a contact print of another kind. Deriving from Afrikaans, Apartheid combines the self-evident apart (apart) with a suffix heid (hood). The suffix ‘hood’ functions here like it does in ‘brotherhood’. The ‘brotherhood’ of the nation state is formed in its apartness from the other, from those stripped of any semblance of civic and political rights, and in the rhetoric that flared up so immediately after Hamas’ attack, which painted all Palestinians as culpable, thus authorizing collective punishment of over two million people.

There is always danger in drawing analogies between one cataclysmic violence and another, in collapsing the specificity and contingency of each time and place into a singular evil. But there is equal danger in failing to recognize the patterns that recur across different colonial systems. And, even holding the specificities of each conflict in mind, how else could Israel’s policies and practices possibly be described? They built a wall – not just an epic concrete structure but an exploded, polysemous infrastructure that is everywhere all the time (see Israeli scholar Eyal Weissman’s lecture The Politics of Verticality at the AA School of Architecture for a breakdown of this). It wends its way into every aspect of people’s lives, from checkpoints to policies defining nutritional humanitarian minimums, to imprisoning and killing teenagers who throw stones at one of the most powerful and sophisticated militaries in the world.

It’s worth noting that in being “sickened by the hate graffiti inscribed on the wall” Anna Schwartz declared Mike Parr in breach of her “principles of anti-racism”. It’s important to keep track of the ideas in circulation here, the meaning that the language drags: definitions of graffiti typically include words like ‘unauthorized’ and ‘illicit’ implying that the artist came in uninvited and wrote these words without asking. But the gallery promoted this act of writing as a public performance, part of a large-scale exhibition of the artist’s work. Permission was retracted only after the words caught fire. It's worth also thinking about the gravitas of words like 'sickened' and 'hate'. Sickened by what? Hate for whom?

The gallerist has been described as a kingmaker. She is powerful in her context. Being powerful in one context does not render one invulnerable, but the balance of power must always be measured carefully. The artist, too, is a powerful figure within his context. He is successful, controversial, widely collected by institutions and safely ensconced in his Sydney home. I have, at various times, struggled with his eagerness to put himself in the frame, to absorb and reconstitute the suffering of others as a political gesture, because sometimes this ends up displacing, rather than centering, those others whose suffering we really must apprehend and wrestle with.

Anna Schwartz’s gallery took a cut of the sales of Mike Parr’s works ‘Close the Concentration Camps’ and ‘UnAustralian,’ both of which indicted Australia’s carceral archipelago of refugee detention centers, likening them to strategies deployed by the Nazis. But that was then, describing Australia, and this is now, describing Israel. More powerful than any one person, Israel's military infrastructure nevertheless relies upon millions of reactions just like this one. Shaped by the trauma that preceded its founding, it bodies forth a wound that is handed down generations, nurses a hypervigilance that makes words into weapons. Schwartz herself described Parr’s words as a kind of violence wielded against her, saying “I can’t work with an artist who’s prepared to hurt me to that degree”. And it’s true that words can hurt. This isn’t the trauma olympics, I’m not interested in diminishing people’s pain. But we should never forget what’s at stake, and who is most vulnerable. Words have real power, they move money and reshape careers. They also move bulldozers, tanks and missiles. We begin with a word – maybe it’s as seemingly innocuous as ‘context’ or as loaded with historical associations as ‘Nazi’ or ‘Apartheid’. Maybe it’s the chilling phrase ‘human animals’, a harbinger of mass slaughter. With blind obedience, it doesn’t take us long to end up with ‘Dead’.

By the time I finish writing, 18,200 Palestinians had been killed by Israel.

[narrie]

literally had to unfollow so many people on ig because they put the most stupid takes and this was the first time they ever posted about israel and palestine conflict and put post we need to put our political position aside its not political like what the actual fuck you talking about you obtuse buffoon, it is political it is regarding human rights, gaza is under siege, palestine has sanctions on basic resources, stop being anti-semitisim into this Isarel is not synonymous with being jewish. There is only one oppressed group of people in this situation, it is only one group of people under military occupant, it is only one group of people experiencing genocide, it is only one country being colonized, it is one country breaking international human rights laws for decades. stop trying to dissociated from being political and that we need to support both sides because innocent people are being killed, yes thats horrible but Palestinians have been experiencing it FOR DECADES, they have been killed in mosques, they have been killed attending the funerals of friends and families who were killed by israeli military.

the ppl who didn't dare position themselves before bc they were "lacking knowledge" are now reposting any shit they come across willy nilly lmao it'd be funny if it wasn’t so tragic

#ask

[radio-rebel-477]

Trigger Warning: Mention of S*xual Assault and R*pe

This article details cases of horrific s*xual assault and r*pe on Israeli women in which Hamas militants are deemed to be the initial perpetrators and lists the UN as a secondary accomplice for its failure to acknowledge gender-based violence. Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a legal scholar and international women’s rights activist who had previously been a member of the UN Convention on Discrimination Against Women, suggests that Hamas planned to use mass s*xual violence against Israeli women as a weapon of war. After an examination of graphic footage and witness accounts of assault survivors and first responders, which display a similar pattern of mutilation, she concludes that “the concentration of cases in less than a day, in numerous locations, could not have been unless there had not been a plan to use s*xual violence as a weapon of war.” It is important to mention that although there is an emphasis on violence towards women, Israeli people of all ages, including men, have also been exposed to similar attacks.

In response to the accusation, Hamas has “rejected and strongly denounced” the report of abuse and has stated that such claims are “lies'' facilitated by Israel in order to distort the “humane” treatment Hamas has extended to the hostages. In the eight weeks since the attack, the UN has been pressed by the protests of many Israeli women’s rights and legal activists, leading the organization to issue a statement tracing along the idea of the atrocities. However, Israel has refused to cooperate with an ongoing UN commission of inquiry in the area, which included s*xual violence on its docket, due to concerns about bias. This has led to tensions between Israel and UN officials, where the chair of the inquiry, Navi Pillay, summarizes that in order to give survivors a hearing and due justice, “All they [Israel] have to do is let us in."

I will be honest when I say that reading this article was quite upsetting to me because, although, in the back of my head, I knew such terrible things existed, seeing them on paper cemented everything into reality. We often acknowledge the general plight of the people during conflict; however, the abuses of people are not monolithic, and some groups are targeted more viciously than others. I must also admit that I never really understood why women are more likely to experience bodily violence during conflicts until I read Audra Simpson’s “The State Is a Man” (HIST-358) in which she details modern structural violence towards Native women as a vehicle for continued colonization. Although the Israel-Hamas situation is nowhere near the same as European colonization of North America and current issues, Simpson’s argument regarding women’s bodies as a platform for politics still stands to be relevant.

In short, and in the context of Native women, Simpson suggests that [Native] women’s bodies are synonymous with land and its resources, and they are targeted due to their ability to reproduce and further a people. The modern politics of the “other” allow its people to coalesce, and to the abusing party, it serves as a bitter reminder of their failure to decimate and eradicate the “other.” Therefore, if politics comes from the people and the people come from women, the women must be taken out first, and subsequent politics will fall apart in its wake. Yes, the situation here is not the same, and the argument can be applied to both Israel and Hamas. However, in both cases, the victims are still women, which is what I would like to emphasize: Brutality towards women is inherently political and horrifically essential in order to break down a people.

*Note: This is not an argument for anyone’s indigeneity; it is a concept that I think can be transferred to understand why gendered violence happens the way it does.

[cleoenfaserum]

THE ZIONIST GENOCIDE CONCENTRATION CAMP OF GAZA.

Many things have been said about Gaza and the Palestinian and the atrocities committed by the Zionist. I remind my readers, that not all jews and Isrealite are zionist but all zionist are jews and isrealite, but also remember, the exception makes the rule, such as USA politicians owned by AIPAC.

When people are hung on definitions masquerading words that are synonymous but with slightly different connotations trying to dominate an argument trying to make light of a different harsher meaning, when the results are visual, when we say genocidal, apartheid or ethnic cleansing, I interpret as meaning GENOCIDE, like zionist are to nazis.

820-1 https://ok.ru/video/7274766142003

820-2 https://youtu.be/dLXCYaayXqE

Israel writer: Gaza is a concentration camp (February 8, 2019)

Israel has a plan to isolate the Gaza Strip and deprive it of its roots, it’s turned it in to a concentration camp, and it has nothing to do with Hamas, Israeli journalist Amira Hass wrote in Haaretz today.

Hass said that the Israeli authorities tighten their grip on the Gaza Strip and then they express their worries about it.

“The Gaza Strip today is a concentration camp,” she wrote.

“In the Gaza Strip, which is closed off like a confined and separated camp, live some two million people in one of the most densely populated places in the world. About 70 per cent of them are the descendants of refugees expelled from their homes. Absent freedom of movement condemned them to a life of unemployment, dreariness, poverty, disease, depression, contaminated water and soil, and dependence on ever-dwindling charity. And that is even without the military bombings and incursions.”

“The concentration camp that is Gaza has existed under ever harsher conditions for almost three decades… Before Hamas took charge.”

“Israel has a political goal in mind in turning Gaza into a giant concentration camp: Cutting it and its inhabitants off from the rest of the Palestinians so that it will become a separate entity, deprived of history, roots and belonging.” (Israel writer: Gaza is a concentration camp – Middle East Monitor)

820-3 https://youtu.be/HTD8kGFKV0g

#Youtube

[mykwalsh]

I don't think a lot of you understand how deeply anti-semitic you are and how you're throwing it around with your whole chest now that Israel is doing something objectionable

It is really one thing to criticize the Israeli government but saying that Israeli people deserve to be murdered or that their murders matter less than the murders of Palestinians because the government has committed crimes is incredibly anti-semitic

This idea of zionism being synonymous with Israeli people is also anti-semitic

Also, Hamas knew what would happen if they bombed Israel--they threw their own people under the bus in order to make a political statement and murder civilians and you all seem to think that's justified because of the Israeli government's treatment of Gaza then you are severely lacking in empathy and critical thinking skills, not to mention proudly wearing anti-semitism with your whole chest. Both Hamas and Israel are throwing their citizens into dire straits. On the surface, you're right that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is abominable and has been going on for longer, but now people whose only objective was to survive-Israelis, Palestinians, anybody else occupying the lands of Israel and Palestine-have been thrown in the middle of a war where they will be used as collateral. If you are taking sides about which citizens deserve to die more, you are as bad as the Israeli government and as Hamas.

[schoolblog0]

Justice, Equality, and Human Rights: A Pro-Palestine Perspective

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a long and continuous issue that has left countless lives shattered and communities torn apart. For many, including myself, standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their quest for justice and peace is not just a political stance; it's a matter of compassion, empathy, and a belief in the fundamental principles of human rights. In this blog post, I'd like to share my perspective as a pro-Palestine advocate and why I believe it is important to support the Palestinian cause.

My journey into understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict began with a curiosity to learn about the history of it. It soon became apparent that this conflict is incredibly complex, with deep-rooted historical grievances, religious views, and competing narratives. It's a conflict that has persisted for generations, and its resolution remains elusive.

A photograph of pro-Palestine protest in London taken by Guy Smallman.

What struck me as I delved deeper into the subject was the immense suffering endured by the Palestinian people. From the displacement of more than 700,00 people in 1948 to the ongoing occupation of the West Bank, the blockade of Gaza, and the hardship faced by Palestinian refugees, their experience has been marked by persistent struggle.

The principle of autonomy is central to the Palestinian cause. Palestinians deserve the right to determine their own future, just as any other nation does. It is a fundamental human right in international law. For me, advocating for the right to autonomy is not a radical stance but a belief in the universality of human rights.

The ongoing occupation of the West Bank, the expansion of Israeli settlements, and the restrictions on Palestinian movement are issues that deeply concern me. It is essential to recognize that this occupation not only affects the Palestinian territories but also the Israeli society, as it perpetuates a cycle of conflict and insecurity. Peace and security can only be achieved when the rights and dignity of all parties involved are respected.

A photograph depicting a poster which call for the end of Israel's war crimes in Gaza taken by David Cliff.

The situation in Gaza, often described as an open-air prison due to the severe blockade, is another disturbing aspect of the conflict. The humanitarian crisis that has unfolded in Gaza, including issues of access to clean water, medical care, food, and education, highlights the urgent need for a resolution to the conflict. The people of Gaza, who have endured repeated bombings and suffering for years, deserve a life of dignity and hope.

Supporting the Palestinian cause is not synonymous with opposing the Jewish people. In fact, many Jewish people, including many Israelis themselves, are actively working for a just and peaceful resolution to the conflict, and their voices should be acknowledged and supported. Just as I stand with the Palestinian people, I also support Israelis who advocate for an end to the occupation and a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that respects the rights and dignity of both Israelis and Palestinians.

Photograph of a Jewish peace activists showing a protest he attended taken by Jessica Le Masurier

The international community, including the United Nations, has called for various paths toward resolution, but the emphasis should be on recognizing and addressing the concerns of both parties and finding a way for coexistence that ensures the safety and well-being of all involved.

In conclusion, my pro-Palestine perspective is rooted in a deep belief in the principles of justice, equality, and human rights. It is a call for empathy and compassion for the Palestinian people who have suffered for far too long. It is a plea for a peaceful and just resolution to the conflict that acknowledges the rights of Palestinians.

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[theculturedmarxist]

This weekend, prominent Jewish artist and activist Eli Valley became the latest person to be named the “Antisemite of the Week” by Stop Antisemitism.

Stop Antisemitism describes itself as part of a nonprofit foundation that’s committed to exposing anti-Semitism and “holding anti-Semites accountable.”

Critics say it’s actually an astroturfed organization that’s part of a loosely affiliated network of right-wing Jews who give cover to conservatives’ alliances with the racist far-right. They believe that its attempts to discredit people like Valley, who criticize Israeli policy, are part of a war of ideas that has pitted the minority of Jews who are conservative—one in six, according to a Gallup poll—and who have attained outsize influence during the Trump era against the overwhelming majority who are not.

In response to emailed questions yesterday afternoon, Liora Rez of Stop Antisemitism asked for the Daily Dot’s web address. Rez did not respond further after a reporter provided the URL.

Valley scoffs at the accusation of anti-Semitism. He’s been labeled such before, most memorably by Meghan McCain. Being trolled comes with the territory of being an artist who creates provocative satirical cartoons, and an activist whose work includes being arrested earlier this year protesting the Trump administration’s concentration camps at the border.

“It’s more preposterous in the current era, when we’re dealing with an administration that refuses to fire Stephen Miller after a report comes out that he’s basically a Nazi,” Valley told the Daily Dot.

In the photo Stop Antisemitism included in its post, which photographer Gili Getz says is his copyrighted work that it didn’t have permission to use, Valley is being arrested while protesting Republicans’ failure to denounce white supremacy in the wake of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting.

The idea of a Jewish person being accused of anti-Semitism, particularly an activist like Valley, may seem counterintuitive. But many believe the episode is emblematic of a conflict playing out where conservative Jews increasingly accuse liberal Jews of anti-Semitism and otherwise attempt to silence their criticisms of Israel, extremist Jewish Zionists and Trump Republicans. Stop Antisemitism has named a handful of Jewish people its “Antisemite of the Week.”

“They demonize Jews and Muslims who have the audacity to oppose both what Israel is doing and what Trump is doing,” Valley said.

A representative from Jewish Worker, who asked not to be named for their protection, told the Daily Dot that far-right extremist Jews have been making common cause with “softer edge white supremacists” for years. Valley separately said they’ve been “carrying water for real anti-Semites that are shooting up synagogues.”

More recently, they say, this has increasingly included falsely equating criticisms of Israeli policies with anti-Semitism, based on the belief that anything Israel does is sacrosanct and beyond reproach. Some believe this explains why Jews like Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, and Stephen Miller are willing to align themselves with a Republican party that today seems content to count avowed white supremacists among its base.

“Nobody in mainstream political discourse has paid attention to this…” the representative from Jewish Worker said. “[They’re] trying to delegitimize American Jews who oppose their positions by turning us all into anti-Semites.”

Yesterday, Stop Antisemitism published a 120-page paper on the subject, “The New Anti-Semites.” Endorsed by roughly two dozen organizations, the paper, which Stop Antisemitism coauthored, argues that online anti-Semitism and “Israel-based online anti-Semitism” are so closely linked as to essentially be synonymous forms of hate speech, and seems to state the case for censoring both.

“Under the guise of legitimate concern for Palestinian human rights, leaders of the delegitimization campaign have found fertile ground on social media, college campuses, among social justice groups and in the most influential international bodies to promote their anti-Israel agenda,” it states. “As a result, individuals, albeit sometimes unknowingly, are used as pawns to promote hate and to lend legitimacy to what is, in fact, a radical anti-Semitic movement.”

The report claims that the intention of the speaker who criticizes Israel may be irrelevant, and that if others commit reprehensible acts against Jews based on their statements, the speaker may be to blame.

Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, tweeted that this argument is intended to justify curtailing free speech.

In the much-read thread, Friedman noted the report’s “remarkable” timing, “days after Trump’s [Executive Order]” making Title VI of the Civil Rights Act apply to anti-Semitic acts, which free speech advocates worry will have a chilling effect on criticisms of Israeli policy on college campuses.

Taken in the context of Valley’s many cartoons critical of Zionists like McCain and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Stop Antisemitism’s effort to potentially silence or deplatform him makes sense.

As Friedman and others point out, the Merona Foundation backs many of the report’s endorsers. Merona Foundation president Gila Milstein is married to Adam Milstein, who’s spent millions “to stifle pro-Palestinian sentiment and attack critics of Israeli policy,” according to the Intercept. Valley is among those who’ve claimed that there’s a link between Adam Milstein and Stop Antisemitism.

The Milsteins have also given money to Turning Point USA and Prager U, along with dozens of other staunchly pro-Israel organizations, according to their foundation’s Form 990.

Adam Milstein has accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of being a “terrorist” and questioned her and Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) loyalty to the United States in a tweet falsely accusing them of being representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood. Both congresswomen have also been named Antisemite of the Week by Stop Antisemitism. So have undeniable racists David Duke, Nicholas Fuentes, and Richard Spencer.

In 2017, Milstein suggested that it was time to “go on the offense” to defeat Palestinian sympathizers like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that criticizes Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian lands, illegal settlements, and denial of Palestinian refugee rights. “We should teach them that anyone that attacks us, there is a price, there is accountability. We need to go on the attack,” he said

Support for BDS has spread on college campuses. The Intercept reported that Milstein urged that “the way forward was to get ugly with BDS supporters, humiliate them, and tar them as racists.”

This, it seems, is precisely the playbook that Stop Antisemitism used when it named a satirical Jewish cartoonist its Antisemite of the Week.

“Any support for Palestinian rights equates to genocidal hatred for Jews,” Valley said. “…Their end-goal is to criminalize pro-Palestinian sentiment in America.”

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[thedreadvampy]

I do not like talking about Israel because. It's very hard as a gentile to identify the ways in which the background radiation of antisemitism affects how i think and talk.

but the point I am 100% sure about is: Israel is a state, it's not Judaism itself, and it should be criticised as a state not as a representation of Jewishness. Its oppression of Palestine is not Jews Oppressing Muslims but a state oppressing disenfranchised subjects on occupied land. we can't remove antisemitism from the equation because antisemitism is baked into the history and present of Israel and it's dangerous to act like we can ignore the degree to which antisemitism colours the idea of the conflict. but it is vital to remember that Israel represents the interests of Israel and its allies, not the interests of all Jews, because apart from anything else the idea that Jews are all responsible for the actions of Israel or that the actions of Israel represents the beliefs of all Jews is like. the basic assumption driving a metric fuckton of antisemitism.

'Israel is not synonymous with Judaism and some Palestinians are Jewish' is is an objective fact. it's not. a denial that antisemitism is a part of the conflict. it also isn't even a partisan statement - if, as a state, you believe Israel is behaving in an acceptable and appropriate way, what exactly changes if you acknowledge the objective fact that not all Jews are Israeli or aligned with Israel and that Israel exists as a state not an abstract concept?

Conceptualising Israel and Jewishness as synonymous is a great way to deflect accountability for a state's actions off the state and government and onto a whole diaspora group. it benefits Israel as a state to do this because it means the government escapes accountability. it also benefits antisemitism, because it's a stick to beat Every Jewish Person with.

and the same is true of other states and religions. Both Islamophobia and the state are served when repressive regimes put a sticker on themselves saying 'This Islamic Republic Is Islam'. why do you think the American right is so committed to treating America and Christianity as synonymous? it takes the responsibility and accountability off the state and its actions and puts it onto a massive group of people who largely don't have any direct power over the state and who have a massive range of ideas, opinions, political and social beliefs and so on. and then either you support the state's actions or your criticism of the state instead gets redirected and projected onto an entire global religious group of random people just trying to live their lives, some of whom may agree with the state, some who may not, some who may agree with some bits but not others, almost none of whom are making the actual decisions. and that works really good for state governments and really badly for the majority of people they claim to represent bc people supportive of the state's actions will erase the existence and validity of religious people who disagree with it, and people critical of the state's actions will turn their ire off the state and onto like. the local mosque or their Jewish coworker.

that doesn't mean there's nothing Jewish about Israel or Christian about the US or Muslim about Iran. it doesn't mean that you can pick and choose who counts as a valid religious person based on their views about religious States. but the state is not the faith.

and the example of this is that when I say Palestine is not antithetical to Jewishness and Israel is not synonymous with Jewishness people immediately jump to arguing the validity of Israel's political position. like 'oh but what about the Arab invasion' 'oh but what about Hamas explosives' and it's like. yeah but that's not actually answering my point? because "is Israel synonymous with Jewishness" is a separate question to "is Israel justified in instituting violent apartheid" unless you already think Israel is synonymous with all Jewishness which it provably isn't.

#and by the way saying Israel Isn't Judaism #shouldn't mean erasing the degree to which centuries of oppression and marginalisation of Jews drive the desire for a Jewish state #like it's. an entirely understandable response to sustained generational trauma to want a Jewish state #but that doesn't mean that that's the ONLY ASPECT of Israel's creation #but yeah like Israel is Jewish but that doesn't mean Israel is JewishNESS itself #red said