I feel kinda sad that you have to add "this are was made by an Antizionist Jew" and "Free Palestine" on drawings that have nothing to do with Zionism or Palestine, your art is pretty, I feel bad that you have to add it to not get reblogged by Zionists or not get hate from people who are using Palestine to harass Jews.
I really miss the days where Jews could just exist on the internet without having to specify they're normal to not get harassed.
we add it to our art for three reasons-
activistic: we're chronically ill/disabled and fairly poor. there isn't much of any activism we can do. so if absolutely nothing else, it makes us feel like we're doing something while trapped in our apartment and trapped in our constantly malfunctioning body. we've made plenty of non-jewish art before now; on our part, the decision to make pointedly jewish art, exactly as the world is right now, is a specifically anti-zionist statement.
ideological: zionism is a hot and sticky tar on our millenniums-old culture. it seeks to subsume everything jewish it touches, and make it so that judaism and zionism become progressively synonymous and inseparable. and like a hot tar, it is so sticky and so damaging that separating it from whatever it touches is an extremely difficult and involved process. putting that banner on our art is our [small] way of fighting that, to be as overt and unambiguous as possible that zionism cannot claim what we make.
functional: put bluntly, people are afraid to touch our art if we don't label it as explicitly antizionist. the goyim see anything with jewish themes and they clam up, don't interact with posts they otherwise would. and yes, that is quiet "micro" antisemitism, but a similar thing also happens with jews. for example, i won't interact with explicitly jewish content blogs until i see unambiguous signals that they aren't zionist. and we know other jews on the hellsite etc. who work similarly.
and yes, a lot of the above is sad; but i personally don't want to waste any more time or energy wallowing in topics like why it's sad for me. not while there's a genocide being committed and supported by people who claim it's in our name. we're making overtly jewish art, we want to make sure the message is clear who it's for, and who cannot claim it.
(also, we're a trans woman, it's been years since the majority of people were "normal" to us about pretty much anything)
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