professional buzz kill

@rpepperpotshipssciencebros please forgive me for this one

People used to tut-tut at us for calling the occupation's treatment of Palestinians a genocide, for comparing the zionist occupiers to the Nazis, for talking about Western Jewish institutions' overwhelming participation and complicity in our oppression, for talking about how Holocaust education was primarily a zionist propaganda tool. We were called antisemites for describing the dynamics of power that enabled the escalation of the genocide of Palestine to happen. The one you witnessed livestreamed to you for years. The one with the images you cannot erase from your mind if you tried. The one that started making you wish Hell was real because justice was not going to be served on Earth.

Stop mincing words. Stop tone policing yourself and others. We have a genuine fucking problem on our hands and it's not saying the words "Jewish supremacy" to describe the system occupying Palestine and trying to erase every country in South West Asia off the map.

This acceleration of the genocide was enabled by our silencing because of the discomfort of Westerners.

You can choose where you want to sit in that dynamic.

I've drawn this parallel before. Since Oc7th, there's been a huge push from antizionist Jews to make sure everyone knows that not every Jew is a strict zionist. Good message, genuinely, that's not strictly wrong.

I can't help but be reminded of "meninism" during MeToo though. Men who weren't rapists and were publicly anti-rape still chose to centre the conversation around themselves. Instead of showing any real solidarity with feminists, a lot of them went on a personal defensive "I'm not like other boys, I'm smol bean, I would never hurt a woman" and refused to educate themselves on patriarchy and rape culture and male privilege because that was for the Bad Men, they didn't need to learn because they were Good Men. They were "nice guys"

I fear this is a problem for Jews too.

"I'm not one of the Bad Jews" isn't the point, it detracts from the anti-zionist movement. It fails to acknowledge that stories of Jewish exceptionalism are told to kids in diaspora households, race mixing isn't strictly prohibited but Jewish diaspora parents will still fuss if you don't marry another Jew and that isn't seen as weird or backwards like when other white parents do the same, Zionism is preached in synagogues and Jewish schools, Jewish institutions funnel money into the Israel project, sometimes without telling people where it goes *cough* K4K,

We know what happens when that goes unchecked too long. We know what became of the "nice guys" who thought they didn't need introspection.