Since we are having a big day for antisemitism, here's a thought:
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Since we are having a big day for antisemitism, here's a thought:
As a Jew (and a human being who cares about humanity, including Jews), I am simply not interested in any political theory, movement, or tendency that doesn't include a credible theory of antisemitism, and a serious praxis around it.
This includes Zionism, whose theories of antisemitism range from self-serving projection to magical, essentialist trash, and whose praxis ranges from bad-faith weaponization to compulsive violence; and it also includes antizionism, whose theory ranges from self-serving projection to outright denial, and whose praxis ranges from bad-faith projection to compulsive glorification of violence.
To the right, we are mascots or useful tools (or targets, for the honest ones), and on the left we are in a peculiar situation where we are required to be on the side of everyone else, no matter what, to be considered for a tentative membership in humanity, but no one (including us) may be on our side, because some of us have been known to do bad things.
It's an absolutely intolerable situation which, Divine guarantees aside, directly threatens our survival, since if we can't have reciprocal allies on the left we don't have anyone, and a small nation cannot survive in this world without allies.
This is why I've pretty much abandoned politics, aside from making angry and cynical statements such as this.
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