No One’s Rights Should Depend on Where Their Ancestors Lived
jacobin.com
Arguments over whether Israelis or Palestinians count as “really indigenous” are beside the point. No one’s human rights should depend on their ethnicity or religion or where their ancestors come from.

"The great German socialist thinker August Bebel famously said that antisemitism is “the socialism of fools,” since antisemites tend to scapegoat cabals of “Jewish bankers” for the problems of an entire economic system. To tweak Bebel’s observation a bit, this kind of rhetoric about all Israelis being “settlers” whose presence in their country is illegitimate represents the anti-Zionism of fools."

What the fuck is this liberal zionist bullshit. dead-dove-2

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    anybody who thinks NJR and jacobin are important left allies should read this and have a real hard think about themselves

    • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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      4 months ago

      This is exactly why I posted this here. I don't think anyone here actually thinks this but now you can bring this up in response to anyone who does. This article is apparently even being shared by "liberal" zionists so... gulag

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Oh, there's definitely regular longtime users on this site who are ardent NJR defenders. One of them sincerely dropped the "no investigation, no right to speak" bit on me when I refused to read a painfully long, badly written defense of NJR's behavior by NJR's personal friend. I tried to explain that he sucked before the "unionization" flap and my dislike isn't contingent on it and they went hard into telling me about Stalin's important allies. Real touch grass moment there.

        I don't think they've posted in response to this (or previous NJR articles posted recently) but I have them blocked to prevent myself from accidentally taking them seriously ever again.