sixtydegrees

you want us to hate you because if you reconcile with the fact that we don’t… you have no justification for your indiscriminate hatred and prejudice.

“Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.”

sound familiar? that’s what most zionists are afraid of. this (among a myriad of other reasons) is why they convince themselves that this genocidal ethnostate is their safe haven. they don’t want to be proven wrong when palestine is liberated and there is no “reverse nakba”.

you want palestinians to want to kill you, because if they don’t… it just means you’re the one who’s genocidal. you want this genocide to be solely about hamas because if it’s not, that means you’re complicit in ethnically cleansing an entire civilisation. and that’s a tough pill to swallow, huh?

you, so badly, want palestinians and their supporters to be the barbarians you’ve indoctrinated your children to believe. because if they’re not, your children will raise questions and come to the conclusion that it is actually you who is barbaric and cruel. and you’ll lose your power over their brainwashed minds. so what do you do? you lie.

“Apartheid-era white elites had justified white domination by saying that, without their rule, Black people would take revenge on them or ruin the country. When widespread revenge and ruin never came, many white people felt forced to fabricate it; otherwise, white dominance became all the more shameful—not only to apartheid’s proponents but even to anti-apartheid progressives, who had inevitably benefited from a regime that comprehensively promoted white interests.”

this is a tactic we’ve been seeing zionists and their apologists use pretty often. false reports and outlandish allegations crafted to fit the disgusting and racist image of palestinians they’ve created and instilled into their society. a way to fear monger—to control the public. to somehow justify the massacres and the occupation. to justify stealing the land and livelihoods of the natives. a sorry (and failed) attempt at making themselves seem less cruel and depraved than they are.

you fear the kindness of the people who oppose your harmful ideologies. and that’s why you choose to label them as antisemitic, and accuse them of hating you. of course, there is antisemitism in the world. nobody is denying that. but the things you label antisemitic? the way you refuse to separate a harmful political ideology from your identity? things like this???

yeah this… you do this because if you don’t, you’ll have to admit that you’re the one who’s being vile and disgusting. you’ll have to admit that your state was built upon war crimes, theft, and lies. you’ll have to admit that the land should be returned to the palestinians. and that’s not something even the most liberal of you israel supporters can reconcile with. because at the end of the day… you do not want to forgo the privileges you currently have. even if they exist at the expense of taking away the rights of another civilisation.

at the end of the day… it’s just you > an entire civilisation being murdered in your name.

that’s the bitter truth people like you don’t want to acknowledge. and that’s the exact bitter truth the people you hate so badly are forcing you to face.

btw. can i be very clear that this post is addressing the racist sentiments a lot of israel’s supporters have towards palestinians in general? it’s about the vile imagery they’ve created on arabs by constantly lying and misconstruing facts. it’s NOT about the palestinian resistance. palestinians have a right to resist and it has nothing to do with the notions of arab/muslim barbarism that pervades the western world. this post is strictly about victim complexes and the similarities oppressors share all across the board when victimising themselves in front of their victims.

btw can i also be really clear (because i figured that was a given but i suppose these things have to be clearly said)—antisemitism is real. it exists. it’s a problem that has made jews feels unsafe and traumatised. it is also true that this exact trauma is what the israeli govt seeks to exploit to allow people to keep giving justifications for its existence. and at the same time, it is also true that the fear jews have is valid and should be addressed in separate conversations that do not undermine the palestinian resistance, cause, and liberation. this post in particular is for the people who falsely equate criticisms of israel with antisemitism. this is about colonial mindset and how oppressors tend to victimise themselves to delegitimise the plight of their victims. this doesn’t mean antisemitism doesn’t exist. it means that within the context of criticising the state of israel and the genocide, the people who defend israel or make false hypothetical claims of palestinians turning around to commit a genocide back are rooted in racism and a desire to absolve themselves (the people who legitimise israeli aggression) of guilt. in a wider context of antisemitism, of course you need to understand that there are very real layers of generational trauma. but it’s also important to acknowledge that this trauma does not justify supporting genocide or pretending like killing 30K people is self defense, nor does it justify the formation of israel as a state through the expulsion of 750K palestinians and the murder of 13-15K others. and it’s important to understand that criticism of false accusations of antisemitism does not mean people believe antisemitism doesn’t exist.

i don’t make these posts for some of you to go around pretending like antisemitism isn’t real or that this is proof all jews are lying. multiple things can be true at once and you need to be able to distinguish between where to apply which logic on your own. don’t diminish the plight of jews, don’t make them feel unsafe (something i’ve been learning to be better at myself), but also be aware of when someone is creating a false narrative to justify everything that has been happening in palestine. i do not hold myself responsible for how you read what i write and the bigotry you perpetuate, but it is my responsibility to make it clear that you are being a bigot all on your own because you’re choosing to use the things we share as excuses to be antisemitic. that’s on you. and for you to reflect on and understand why it’s wrong and unhelpful not only from a moral and ethical standpoint, but also for the very people you claim to want to help.

neotech made by viput art by me