“Israel’s mythology of necessity of making Jews feel alone”

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https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/1840794935466844652?s=61&t=BOlzemQu6oPppjtIB6ZeiQ

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I have mixed feelings about this. In an objective manner of speaking, she's not wrong. Israel does very much weaponize tragedy: it's impossible to deny that. Even so....yeah? In the past century, everyone has at least one ancestor that has endured some kind of attempted genocide, or other act of ethnic violence. Not that our history is in any way an excuse for Zionist atrocities or colonization; but it's hard not to feel like the world hates Jews sometimes. Because I sure as shit don't have much evidence to the contrary.

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I don’t think either your or her perspective is wrong-

Literally every single Jew I’ve ever met in my life has some family story involving genocide, ethnic cleansing, pogroms, stolen property, state and/or social enforced discrimination, institutional segregation, antisemitic harassment, or episodic antisemitic violence.

On the other hand, Zionism really does push us towards irrational tribalism, while pushing us away from developing a sense of solidarity with all oppressed peoples. This was something I especially noticed while growing up in Israel.

Personally, coming to reject Zionism has provided me a profound sense of unity and connection with all human beings. Something that I had never felt as a Zionist.

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You aren’t wrong but how many Indian, indigenous or African people could make the same argument?

The difference between those groups and Jewish people is that Jewish people can chose to identify politically and culturally, while many other people cannot. That doesn’t excuse prejudice, but it does make it easier to navigate and makes integration in other places many orders of magnitude easier.

Other groups are constantly asked to ignore inequalities which are plainly visible. It seems imbalanced to say that Jewish people are justified in feeling oppressed while other people are expected to make huge efforts not to let the past guide their actions in the present.

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We can remember the Holocaust without reliving it yearly. We can build safety without taking it from others.

For unfortunately cynical reasons, the Holocaust made Jews a model victim. It’s meant our safety gets prime time attention. We still have that.