But even this idea kind of misses the point. Anti-zionism doesn't oppose the presence of Jews or Judaism in Palestine; you probably could argue that Jewish people as an ethnoreligous group did originate there. It just opposes the disposession of land and rights, by mostly-European and American settlers, from the extant inhabitants. Including Arab Jews, at one point.
I'm aware. I just think it's funny that officially even Jewish people shouldn't think they began in Israel. A promised land means you don't start out with it.
Nina Paley has some TERF-adjacent tendencies that come out in her work, but if you can forgive that, her film Seder Masochism interrogates that whole concept of a "promised land" in a pretty funny way.
Jews are indigenous to Israel now? It's in the fucking Bible that they settled there.
But even this idea kind of misses the point. Anti-zionism doesn't oppose the presence of Jews or Judaism in Palestine; you probably could argue that Jewish people as an ethnoreligous group did originate there. It just opposes the disposession of land and rights, by mostly-European and American settlers, from the extant inhabitants. Including Arab Jews, at one point.
I'm aware. I just think it's funny that officially even Jewish people shouldn't think they began in Israel. A promised land means you don't start out with it.
Nina Paley has some TERF-adjacent tendencies that come out in her work, but if you can forgive that, her film Seder Masochism interrogates that whole concept of a "promised land" in a pretty funny way.
Okay, watching it now. I feel like I'm having a very Jewish acid trip
Definitely has that vibe at certain points.
I'm only 20 minutes in
Sounds interesting. I'll check it out later.
The stories told in the Hebrew Bible say that after the Israelites escaped from Egypt they fought a series of wars against the Canaanites (and other groups), which led to the Israelites taking over most of the Canaanites' land. The stories say that those Canaanites who survived had to do forced labor.
Tfw your settler colonialism is based on God calling you a settler