This phenomenon is so interesting, and thank you for airing it. At its heart is the erasure of Palestinian identity, a long and continual global process by Zionists in Israel, America and the UK, which has provided a stepping stone to genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Erasing Palestinian identity and then replacing it with negative Jewish- and Western-centric placeholders goes way back. It is inherent even in Britain's Balfour Declaration which referred to existing residents of Palestine not in their own ethnic terms but negatively as "non-Jews".
In America, Zionist campaigns from the early 20th Century through today inundated government leaders and citizens alike with Jewish settler mythology while grouping existing residents, Palestinians, as backwards and hot-headed, lacking western values to govern themselves and unable to improve their lots in life without western (Zionist) imposition. Not a single US president has seriously considered the voices and opinions of Palestinians on the critical issues of human rights, nationalism, and nationalism. Since Arab Palestinians being slaughtered and deported are semitic by ethnicity, who exactly is being antisemitic in this genocidal process?
Some anti-Zionist Jewish groups do talk about crimes against Palestinians and they probably do come at it largely from an anti-Zionist, ie Israel-centered, perspective. I don't think that is surprising since they are a minority of Jews and must push uphill against a majority who still identify strongly with the fascist state. I do know some - eg JVP - partner with Palestinian groups, allies as they call them. Perhaps they could strengthen the Palestinian cause if they could educate their constituents about Palestinians' rich history, culture, economics, and politics in addition to their opposition to Israel.
Thank you for this! Yes, it's a very concerted anti-Palestinian disinformation campaign and commensurate with colonial wars but you can see easily the smearing and erasure of diaspora Palestinians all the time on posts and pieces where it looks on the surface as if they are "allies." I think one of the best declarations from anti-Zionist Jews comes from the Declaration released recently after the First Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna this summer. They say clearly that Palestinians have the right to resist their oppressors in any way they see fit. True solidarity. But they are most certainly a small minority. See above, polling numbers. Disturbing, as they prove the slow and now accelerated genocide has been protected all this time with narratives that are either overtly racist or simply omit Palestinian voices.
And Israelis/Jews/Zionists can’t understand why they’re vilified and hated. After all, they’ll tell you, they’re the “chosen ones”. I hope they realize that what they’ve made themselves chosen for is hell.
Well said, perhaps the Jews could stop turning their religion into supremacy engineered through statecraft propaganda and colonialism, and then they could also be free of the hell fate that seems to await.
This phenomenon is so interesting, and thank you for airing it. At its heart is the erasure of Palestinian identity, a long and continual global process by Zionists in Israel, America and the UK, which has provided a stepping stone to genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Erasing Palestinian identity and then replacing it with negative Jewish- and Western-centric placeholders goes way back. It is inherent even in Britain's Balfour Declaration which referred to existing residents of Palestine not in their own ethnic terms but negatively as "non-Jews".
In America, Zionist campaigns from the early 20th Century through today inundated government leaders and citizens alike with Jewish settler mythology while grouping existing residents, Palestinians, as backwards and hot-headed, lacking western values to govern themselves and unable to improve their lots in life without western (Zionist) imposition. Not a single US president has seriously considered the voices and opinions of Palestinians on the critical issues of human rights, nationalism, and nationalism. Since Arab Palestinians being slaughtered and deported are semitic by ethnicity, who exactly is being antisemitic in this genocidal process?
Some anti-Zionist Jewish groups do talk about crimes against Palestinians and they probably do come at it largely from an anti-Zionist, ie Israel-centered, perspective. I don't think that is surprising since they are a minority of Jews and must push uphill against a majority who still identify strongly with the fascist state. I do know some - eg JVP - partner with Palestinian groups, allies as they call them. Perhaps they could strengthen the Palestinian cause if they could educate their constituents about Palestinians' rich history, culture, economics, and politics in addition to their opposition to Israel.
Thank you for this! Yes, it's a very concerted anti-Palestinian disinformation campaign and commensurate with colonial wars but you can see easily the smearing and erasure of diaspora Palestinians all the time on posts and pieces where it looks on the surface as if they are "allies." I think one of the best declarations from anti-Zionist Jews comes from the Declaration released recently after the First Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna this summer. They say clearly that Palestinians have the right to resist their oppressors in any way they see fit. True solidarity. But they are most certainly a small minority. See above, polling numbers. Disturbing, as they prove the slow and now accelerated genocide has been protected all this time with narratives that are either overtly racist or simply omit Palestinian voices.
And Israelis/Jews/Zionists can’t understand why they’re vilified and hated. After all, they’ll tell you, they’re the “chosen ones”. I hope they realize that what they’ve made themselves chosen for is hell.
Well said, perhaps the Jews could stop turning their religion into supremacy engineered through statecraft propaganda and colonialism, and then they could also be free of the hell fate that seems to await.
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