There's this intense rage that boils in me whenever I see a Israel supporter or 'anti genocide but pro-jewish state' person talk about safety post-holocaust.
It always reminds me that despite our soldiarity, our shared traumatic history, most are still never going to understand the reality of colorism.
"Yes what Israel is doing is bad but jewish people deserve their own state/Israel because white countries aren't safe! What about our safety!"
People care about your state because you're a tool. Because you're, as multiple israeli officials have put it throughout the decades, "civilization surrounded by beasts' and 'a beacon of the west in the jungle'.
Fucking ignoring the Rroma who are and have been living through your exact nightmare. And people don't care, because we're brown. There's no outrage when people sterilize Rroma, when we are murdered and racially targeted and destroyed all over Europe. And one of the big reasons? Color.
We are living examples of what happens when you can't be used to expand western ideals. When you are left loose post holocaust. And despite all this, I still don't fucking support Israel. My family, my culture, my identity destroyed by the holocaust and the white countries after it. I'm living proof of the terror. And despite it all, I know that I would never be fucking okay with any of this done in my name. I would never be okay with any actions done to this day by Israel. I would never want a fucking ethnostate.
Where are those who were born in Israel supposed to go, you ask? Not my fucking problem. I don't have solutions. But I do know that anyone who supports an ethnostate is not an ally or a friend of mine.
Every headline I see that dehumanizes Palestinian death, it reminds me of my people. Of how we're the ones tossed to the side. Ignored. Forgotten.
I will not accept that happening to others.