I was at a pro-Palestine campus protest and there were times where I was instinctively uncomfortable because they were really hammering in the whole bit about reported ‘antisemitic action on campus’ being a non-issue and I had to remind myself that they aren’t talking about people acting against Jews, they’re talking about people acting against Israel.
It’s my most personal and privileged grievance against Israel. I no longer know if a supposed threat to my safety is a bullshit bludgeon to silence pro-Palestine voices or if the yank reich is actually in town and I need to commute for the rest of the week.
I’ll never forgive them for it. I’ll never forgive them for a lot of things, but this is the most personal grievance I have, and since I’m born and raised a cracker suburbanite, it’s the only one I truly, directly feel in my personal life.
I don’t want this to override, you know, the actually important grievances that are at stake for Palestine here, and I don’t want to make myself the center of this issue when I’m very much not at all, but I guess I’ve just been stewing in this for a bit, and I want to uncap it before it somehow causes me to become a weird crank through lack of addressing the root of the issue and it festering into my belief system
On that video of the Likud government person interviewed on RT threatening the Russians, he calls Hamas Nazis. Which I find the craziest use of the word. I guess it truly is anyone against Israel is going to be labeled not just antisemitic, but a Nazi.
The Israeli ambassador to the UN made a speech to the UN General Assembly today calling Hamas Nazis. Only 1 minute 45 seconds in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tmepPKIJE
Israel has killed so far 38 UN humanitarian workers and bombed UN humanitarian sites in Gaza. Why are they even welcome at UN meetings?
I get it. I’ve seen a lot of dismissal of antisemitism as a serious issue since the conflict started, which has led to some actual very concerning antisemitic garbage making its way into the discourse; thankfully not here of course.
It’s entirely intentional on Israel’s part that Jewish diaspora are made to feel unsafe and should thus “return home” to fill in all the curiously vacant land they have just waiting to be claimed. So it’s two birds being knocked out with one stone.
Stop making it about individual people, make it about an entire nation. Best way to do it, IMO.
Israel has excellent propaganda.
There is something very sick about an ethnostate crying antisemitism. These people have more in common with the Nazis that did genocide against the Jews than the actual Jews. Yet they’ll use their suffering as a shield. It’s messed up.
One thing I’ve been thinking of recently is the parallel between how much both Israel and Nazi Germany have and had a mythos of being victims as a major part of their identity. I will need to investigate other fascist societies to see if this is a common trend among them or if this is just coincidence
Fascists are always self-victimizing, it’s always the Jews or the British capitalists (for Italy) or the immigrants and/or Muslims (modern western fascists) that are supposedly attacking the homeland and giving a basis for revanchism.
It’s a silly reference, but I remember Jacob Geller’s video on the ideology of Call of Duty, where he does a decent job of demonstrating how it so centers on a politics of aggrievement by foreign enemies necessitating a response of brutal violence by the US, where all the atrocities committed by the latter are the “hard choices” and “dirty work” needed to protect the country.
He literally did say that. Nazis were going on about reverse racism generations before any CHUD.
