Tag: ‘anti-zionism’

Why are no Jewish bloggers talking about how Israel slaughtered peaceful Palestinian protesters Friday?

tikkunolamorgtfo:

borg-collective:

ingek73:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

returnofthejudai:

Because apparently we have failed in our responsibility to criticize Israel non-stop to please anons like you.

Having our entire worth judged by what we say about what happens in Israel is exhausting. I, for one, am not Israeli. I was spending Friday Night at a Passover Seder with my family. I didn’t spend much time online because my inbox was being filled with people accusing me of perpetrating “white genocide” and complaining about circumcision.

Do you want to know my opinion on what happened? EVERYONE was wrong. EVERYONE. Hamas was wrong for treating Palestinian lives so cheaply and mixing in militants with peaceful protestors in the hope of provoking outrage. Israel is wrong for using excessive force, yet again, and giving Hamas exactly what they wanted. It’s an ongoing, slowly unfurling disaster and I’ve now opened myself up to criticism from across the political spectrum to please you, oh Jew-judging anon.

Now the next time someone of your ethnicity half-a-world away does something horrible, I hope your inbox is flooded with asks questioning your response or lack-theoreof. It will be well deserved.

How to oppose Israel without being anti-Semitic: Stop demanding Jewish people as a whole answer for Israel’s actions.

then also don’t call people anti-semetic when critizising Israel

I’m ant-zionist, not anti-semetic

Well, that was completely unasked for… 

Of course criticism of Israel is not always antisemitic, but if this is your reaction to this post I’m kinda inclined to ask you to unfollow me.

Did me or @tikkunolamorgtfo or @returnofthejudai make any such ridiculous statements? No. So either this is a stawman argument, or you are acting as if Jewish people are a collective hive-mind and because some Jewish people see all criticism of Israel as antisemitism, you feel you can address these two tumblr users in this denigrating way.

I won’t stand for it.

Well, first of all, nobody from the Netherlands or any country that has enabled non-Jews to systematically benefit from anti-Semitism really has the right to be either Zionist or anti-Zionist. It’s not your place to have an opinion on how some members of a minority group reacted to the oppression you inflicted on them, FULL STOP. Can you be critical of the country’s actions? Yes. Do you get an opinion about whether that country should exist or not? No. It’s not your place. You can’t benefit from centuries of Jewish oppression and still dictate how some Jewish people reacted in light of what was done to them.

Secondly, as said above, Jewish =/= Israeli. Just because some Jews reacted to your oppression one way, doesn’t mean all Jews agreed with their endeavours then, and doesn’t mean all Jews agree with Israel now. Even if you were entitled to an opinion on Zionism (and again, you’re not), you can’t be “ant-zionist-not-anti-semitic™” whilst simultaneously expecting all Jews to answer for the actions of a country in which they aren’t even citizens. You can’t claim to only be against a nation and not Jews in particular, and then turn around and demand that all Jews from every place on the globe pass a litmus test every time that nation does something. That’s not only being anti-Israel, that’s being anti-Semitic. You can’t have it both ways. 

Thank you. Very well put.

People also need to get clear on what they mean by “anti-Zionist.” Do you mean that Israel should end its military occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and should stop allowing Israelis to build settlements in the West Bank? Great, I agree with you, but it’s extremely misleading to call that “anti-Zionism”; I suspect confused, well-meaning moderate Leftists have borrowed the term from people on the far Left, assuming that they’re reasonable and so that’s all they mean when they talk about opposing Israel. Do you mean that you think there should not be a Jewish state (as the extreme Leftists do)? Then see above: if you’re not Jewish, it’s not for you to say.

tikkunolamorgtfo:

chiribomb:

everydayantisemitism:

UC Berkeley apologises after students publish blood libel cartoon depicting Alan Dershowitz

#EverydayAntisemitism

The Chancellor of UC Berkeley has apologised after student newspaper the Daily Californian published an antisemitic cartoon depicting pro-Israel activist and celebrated lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

Dershowitz, a liberal supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, spoke at the College, answering questions from a large audience.

The cartoon depicts Dershowitz grinning, with his head showing through a hole in a wall with an Israeli flag and images of happy children. The words “the liberal case for Israel”, the title of Dershowitz’s talk, are written on the wall. Behind the wall, he is depicted as trampling on a Palestinian man and holding up an Israeli soldier depicted as carrying out what is essentially an execution of an unarmed boy who lies in a pool of blood.

According to the Definition of Antisemitism, “Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g. claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterise Israel or Israelis” is antisemitic. The image unequivocally invokes blood libel in the implication that Israel, and perhaps Dershowitz personally, is responsible for cold-blooded killing, without any balance being provided. The image also presents Dershowitz as duplicitous and dishonest, as he attempts to influence political thinking, ideas which are often applied to Jews as a manifestation of antisemitism.

Reportedly, posters for the event were also vandalized with Swastikas. According to the Definition of Antisemitism, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is Antisemitic.

The publication’s editors apologised, saying that they “have seen with sharp clarity the pain and anger caused… The criticism we have received reaffirms for us a need for a more critical editing eye, and a stronger understanding of the violent history and contemporary manifestations of antisemitism”.

Beyond blood libel, he’s depicted as a bloated, inhuman creature hiding behind a facade, scheming behind-the-scenes and deliberately lying, which all plays into the image of Jews being duplicitous and manipulating the world for their own ends.

This is why I can’t trust goyim who say they’re “not anti-Semitic, just anti-Zionist.“Because they always pull shit like this.

As far as I’m concerned, all anti-Zionism that deserves the name – i.e., opposition to the existence of the Jewish state, not just to the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip – is antisemitic unless it’s part of a blanket opposition to the existence of states in general.