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if your Jewish friends aren't talking to you about anything that's happening right now, it's because they know that at its core your take is probably rooted in greedy-grasping-jew stereotypes with a hefty helping of i-don't-mean-you-of-course. And they're doing both of you the favor of pretending it isn't.
#or the slightly more active version which is be-a-good-jew-for-me#but in that case they probably demanded your position on Israel/Palestine the moment they knew you were Jewish#because frankly most people conflate Israeli people with Israeli government with All Jews Everywhere Past And Present and it is wild#my favorite ice cold take from the past week: jews are just like the puritans who killed Indigenous people for land#actually maybe my favorite is that it doesn't matter that jews are the Indigenous people of this region because it's been invaded like 3x#their estimate not mine#now it's not their indigenous land it's their ancestral homeland which i guess we don't care about?#that's especially confusing because if they're arguing that it also became the muslim ancestral homeland why would we only care about that#i feel like i should do a gallery of Worst Takes of the Week#sure i probably shouldn't but also fuuuuuuuuuuck#wall of words
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hey goyim you don't know what zionism is
zionism is not:
-murder all Palestinians!
-conquer Gaza!
-Jewish fascism!
zionism is:
-an incredibly varied Jewish philosophy
-an intrinsic part of Judaism, deeply entwined with our culture, history, and ethnoreligion
-a belief in the Jewish homeland in the historic region now known as Israel
-a yearning to live safe and free in that homeland
Jews are naturally argumentative with each other. we debate and disagree constantly and it's one of the things we love about each other. there are almost as many interpretations of, and approaches to zionism as there are Jews. for most of us zionism, is peacefully living alongside the Palestinian people in our shared homeland. for most of us it's just Jewish safety, freedom, and self-determination in our indigenous lands. for most of us it's just living in a place where we won't be killed just for being Jewish.
for an extreme minority of Jews (such as Benjamin Netanyahu), it's twisted into some kind of violent pseudo-fascism.
But overall, zionism is a Jewish term for a Jewish concept and when Jews tell you you're using it wrong the right thing to do is to fucking stop and correct yourself.
I'm an anarchist, I believe in freedom and self-determination for all peoples and hope for a world in which we don't need the apparatus of the state to ensure that for anyone. I also believe in Jewish freedom, safety, and self-determination in our ancestral lands alongside the Palestinians who also call the land home.
my personal philosophy is best described as anarcho-zionism (with communist/primitivist leanings but we don't need to get into that now).
but yeah. you don't get to tell Jews what our words mean so fucking stop. and if you're frothing at the mouth to misbehave at me right now because of this post then you're only proving my point.
rant over I guess.
am Yisrael chai.
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