r/JewsOfConscience • u/Ok_Item_3313 Jew of Color • Jun 29 '24

Activism NYC Dyke March Drama

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The NYC Dyke March is being boycotted by many other organizations including Act Up NYC for putting out and subsequently deleting this statement. Thoughts?

Imma be real I don't really think this statement is bad at all, but I understand that others have read it as "all lives matter"-ing the genocide in Gaza. Would love to hear more takes.

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u/lizzmell Jewish Anti-Zionist Jun 29 '24 edited Jun 29 '24

Yeah it’s giving all lives matter. They could have just posted the first and fifth paragraphs. It’s a good idea to emphasize that antizionism and antisemitism aren’t the same thing, but I can see how this is parroting a lot of J-street esque talking points that rub people the wrong way. You can say Jews are welcome, but Bringing up the hostages as if no one is paying them any mind when they have been used to excuse genocide and recently kill scores more Palestinians than there even are hostages, and acting as if October 7th was an attack on Jews for being Jewish and not on settler colonialism that is being perpetrated by Jews, is pretty liberal Zionist imo.

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u/cupcakefascism Jewish Communist Jun 29 '24

Excellently put. A friend recently accused me of having no empathy for Jewish suffering because I don’t talk about it in my activism and I was trying to explain that as Jewish suffering has so often been used to obscure Palestinian suffering, it feels grotesque to keep going on about it in the current context.

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u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist Jul 15 '24

I agree completely. I am especially tired and not at all accommodating to supposed anti-zionist Jews who constantly center themselves and how they feel and want more focus on Jewish Israeli suffering. As if that isn't the dominant narrative literally in almost the entire world, mass media, of the only pain that matters. I don't think we need to play into that false symmetry and disproportionate attention on a few hundred people and we have no idea how many were actually killed by Palestinians. Versus the over 100,000 killed by Israel. It just feels perverse and I know where my focus belongs.