I just saw a blog that had a pinned post and among their descriptors they wrote the following:
This is verbatim. Regardless of how you feel about zionism or what your definition of it is, thereâs something really sinister about a Jewish person feeling the need to directly specify what they think of Israel the second they reveal that theyâre Jewish, to show that theyâre âone of the good ones.â Iâd like non-Jews to take a moment to think about this and ask themselves the following:
What reason would a Jewish person have for putting these identities side by side? Why does a Jew feel like they have to set the record straight?
Is there any other marginalized ethnic group for whom it would be acceptable to immediately interrogate or be suspicious about their beliefs and moral character based on their ethnicity?
Could you have done anything to make Jewish people feel the need to signal themselves as being on your side - the âcorrectâ side - because they were afraid you would assume otherwise based on the fact that they are Jewish?
Could you have done anything to stop others in your circle from talking over Jews, dehumanizing Jews (that includes Jewish Israelis, because itâs always the Jewish ones that are being dehumanized in particular), calling Jews the ârealâ nazis (that goes for any Jew), engaging in denial about Jewish ethnic origins (ie: calling all Jews âwhite,â ignoring the centuries of oppression and expulsion of Jews from MENA countries, denying that we come from the Levant, etc), calling Jews âziosâ (a nazi slur), immediately dismissing Jews who call out leftist antisemitism because they must be a zionist and therefore their claim must invalid, and so on?
If you care at all about Jews, you would do well to ask yourselves these questions, because this is just a small sample of the barrage of antisemitism weâve all had to deal with over the last year and half.
If you donât, if you proudly engage in the sort of behavior I listed above, if you blatantly ignore Jews speaking out about these issues - or worse yet, harass them and add them to public block lists (what could go wrong with a list full of Jews?) - you have fallen into nazi rhetoric. You are engaging in nazi behavior. You are no better than those who ignored or rejoiced at our genocide. Some of you are even proudly rejoicing now -or following people who are - about 1200 of us getting raped, tortured, and slaughtered, and 60+ getting kidnapped (and subsequently also raped, tortured and slaughtered). As long as a Jew is also an Israeli (and itâs always Jewish Israelis specifically, never other Israelis), we are not people to you. If you make exceptions for the mass-slaughter of our people, as long as they are of a nationality you hate, we are not people to you. If your immediate reaction to me saying all this is to run to my profile and hunt for (non-existent) evidence that I want Palestinians dead (I donât) or that Iâm okay with Israelâs actions (Iâm not) so that you can pat yourself on the back and dismiss me because this whole thing about Jew hate is all a bit too inconvenient for you, we are not people to you.* You are no friend to Jews. You are no friend to your Jewish friends - that is, if you have any left at all, or had any to begin with.
*PS: maybe also think about why I - like the person I referred to in the beginning of this post - felt the need to defend myself in parentheses in this sentence, lest non-Jews believe me to be a âbad Jew.â
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