Am I A Fandom Blog Or A Jewish Blog? Who Knows!

Clearly, it's not human rights they care about, hence the love for theocracies and hatred for Jews, so what exactly do they want?

I already knew they don't care about Iranians suffering under the dictatorship, but they're actually spelling it out.

If it's really interventionism and countries meddling in other countries' affairs (cowardly take, but I'd have let that slide had it been consistent), why were they celebrating Iran bombing Tel Aviv?

The implications are extremely uncomfortable yet necessary to deal with.

They equate anyone who is willing to hear out the Israeli side, who sympathizes with the victims of Oct 7, and doesn't support its complete dismantling, to mfing Nazis of all people. All this while, downplaying if not outright ignoring the disaster that is the IRGC and other radical Islamist organizations who are closer to the actual Nazis in terms of ideology, be with their antisemitism, supremacist beliefs or homophobia.

They’re teaching the kids phonics.

It is legally required.

They’re teaching the kids phonics.

It is legally required.

I think at this point the claim that "antizionism is not antisemitic" can now be safely buried and have a slab of fresh-poured reinforced concrete put on top of it.

Because there is literally nothing more Jew-hating than the claim that the foundational prayers and texts of Judaism are politically unacceptable to "antizionists".

Point 1: The Antizionist movement is full of unexamined antisemitic tropes, canards, and other pieces of anti-Jewish hatreds; blood libel, well poisoning, world domination conspiracies, and various other pieces of classic antisemitism are all alive and well in the movement.

Point 2: While there are many, many, many legitimate criticisms to make of the Israeli government, most people within the Antizionist movement don't bother to educate themselves on internal Israeli politics and problems, but instead reach straight for a maximalist stance of "Israel needs to be destroyed", often indulging in those above antisemitic beliefs as they do so.

Point 3: Most significantly, there is no accountability and no internal policing within the larger movement. There is no large scale pushback in the Antizionist movement for making it safe for Jews in general, only isolated voices (often indulging in antisemitic statements in the process, ironically), and only for those Jews who are willing to debase themselves into tokens for the larger movement. Even then, that acceptance is so conditional that literally the Jewish token pointing out antisemitic tropes being used by their fellows is enough to have their acceptance and safety revoked, which is something I've seen happen online multiple times, and it's honestly something I'm scared about happening at a protest. Being blunt, I'm pretty sure it would turn into a lynching if that were to happen.

Point 4: As a result of all of this--the rampant antisemitism, the group-think, and the desire to delegitimize Israel at any cost--Antizionists will label any Jew who disagrees with them as a "Zionist", so that they don't have to listen to the Jew in question. They are to be ignored and destroyed, just as Israel is, per Point 2.

Point 5: And since there is practically nobody pushing back within the movement, and there is an overreliance on antisemitic beliefs and conspiracy theories, combined with a desire to delegitimize Israel... all of Jewish history, religion, culture, and society is looked upon with suspicion and an urge to redact Judaism to fit the narrative that is desired. And there is no braking mechanism to stop that. Not in the movement as it currently stands. There is nobody willing to stand up and say, "That is going too far. We can't say that. That is bigoted and racist against the Jewish people." Because, to the mindset common in the movement, there is no such thing as the Jewish people.

In essence, there is no way to keep the Antizionist movement as it currently stands to eventually--and likely quickly--looking at a Jewish prayerbook or Torah Scroll from centuries past, and say that it needs to be destroyed, because it uses Hebrew and mentions "the Land of Israel".

Claiming that Arab isn't an ethnicity or religion, so even though Arab empires occupied the region that is now Israel/Palestine, it isn't the same as the Assyrians, Romans, Ottomans, British, Israeli, etc. (and yes, she includes Israelis in the list of occupiers)

Claiming that UN is biased in favor of Israel

Claiming that Zionism (whose definition she quotes from Herzl... Herzl) is predicated on taking the "biblical narrative to heart, uncritically"

Calling Jews "sneaky and underhanded" for using biblical texts (by which she means God promising the land in Jewish religious texts) to justify Zionism

he and elizer ben yehuda lived about the same time frame so i don't know how widespread contemporary hebrew was at that point, but that is probably what makes it feel archaic while still seemingly childish and very not uniform.

politicaljew:

You are being lied to by a bunch of populists who think you're stupid.

This is not foolproof, but it's how I killed SJP on my campus.

See, the thing everyone on campus fucking forgets is that "Israeli" is a NATIONAL ORIGIN, and that's a protected category under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which like... is wildly in danger in this day and age but that's not the point. The point is that anything that receives federal funds is vulnerable to a Title VI complaint, and you know who receives federal funds?

COLLEGES. UNIVERSITIES. EVEN PRIVATE ONES. Because you know what counts as federal funding?

STUDENT.

LOANS.

That's right: if your institution offers federal student loans, YOU CAN MAKE A TITLE VI COMPLAINT.

And because a Title VI complaint threatens a school's federal funding? They do NOT fuck around with them. They won't always be able to tell you the exact action they take (in fact, they'll hardly ever be able to tell you), but they WILL have to take action if your local band of antisemites is posting anti-Israel crap.

And how do you MAKE one? Why, through this extremely handy portal! But your school should also have a process for making one, and if you have a diversity office or something akin to that, you can also have fun freaking them out by walking in and saying, "Hi, I'm here to make a Title VI complaint." Usually this will cause people to get managers. Federal discrimination complaints are a big deal.

Judaism is absolutely post-catastrophic, though. Post-cataclysmic, perhaps.

I'm actually using Christian language on purpose here, because I am trying to convey to gentiles, particularly culturally Christian onea, what it means to be continuing on as a people, and as an individual after the world has ended for you and your people, which unforunately leaves me limited to Christian language.

Destruction of the Temple, 71 CE, restructuring of the religion from the ground up to survive without a central facility

Crushing of the Bar Kochba Revolt, 135 CE, Judea renamed after a near-folkloric enemy from Jewish scripture and a large portion of Judeans enslaved and/or exiled

First Crusade/Rhineland Massacres, 1096 CE, large portion of the Jewish community of central Europe killed, 'othering' of Jews within European society skyrockets

Unremembered Genetic Bottleneck (Black Death-related pogroms?), circa 600-800 years ago, we don't remember the details but genetic evidence indicates that while we are closely related to Sepharadim and other Levantine peoples, all Ashkenazim alive today are descended from just 350 people between 25 to 32 generations ago because everybody else died

Reconquista, expulsion of Jews from Spain and later all Spanish colonial possessions, 1492

Holocaust

Faruhd+expulsion of the Jews from the entire MENA region with nothing but the clothes on their back post-1948

that’s what the cause has always been about.

Palestinians do have a right to form a state for “the right to not be stateless” reasons, but there’s never been a time when the “Free Palestine” movement cared more about that than the negation of Israel, or was not defined by its antisemitism. this is not a good cause that went bad because outsiders poisoned it; it is a cause that has always had a venomous aspect, and purposefully keeps Palestinians in a position to be aggrieved for recruitment and fundraising purposes, in order to fuel an eternal intifada.