I was at a pro-Palestine campus protest and there were times where I was instinctively uncomfortable because they were really hammering in the whole bit about reported 'antisemitic action on campus' being a non-issue and I had to remind myself that they aren't talking about people acting against Jews, they're talking about people acting against Israel.

It's my most personal and privileged grievance against Israel. I no longer know if a supposed threat to my safety is a bullshit bludgeon to silence pro-Palestine voices or if the yank reich is actually in town and I need to commute for the rest of the week.

I'll never forgive them for it. I'll never forgive them for a lot of things, but this is the most personal grievance I have, and since I'm born and raised a cracker suburbanite, it's the only one I truly, directly feel in my personal life.

I don't want this to override, you know, the actually important grievances that are at stake for Palestine here, and I don't want to make myself the center of this issue when I'm very much not at all, but I guess I've just been stewing in this for a bit, and I want to uncap it before it somehow causes me to become a weird crank through lack of addressing the root of the issue and it festering into my belief system shrug-outta-hecks

  • sloth [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Most Jews aren't Zionists.

    Zionism is not Judaism.

    Anyone who calls you antisemitic immediately and without evidence is probably a Zionist, or confused by Zionists.

    Zionists are Fascists, or Fascist Adjacent.

    • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Most Jews aren't Zionists

      Is there any actual research/data on this? Every time I search it's a mixed bag between articles claiming over 90% of Jews are zionist to articles saying 'a lot more Jews than you think aren't zionists' but with no hard numbers.

      • RollaD20 [comrade/them, any]
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        8 months ago

        A lot of people define zionism differently so those surveys that tote 90+% can't be taken at face value (https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/zionism-an-ideal-that-has-little-purhase-on-reality/ best resource that I've found on the matter).

        I think it's fair to say that most jews don't like how Israel operates even if they might define themselves as a zionist due to personal/family complications (also a lot of zionist propaganda).