from #TheGuardian
‘Israelis, go back to Europe’? Some on the left need to rethink their slogans
by #Jo-AnnMort
"A majority of Israel’s #Jews today are not descended from #Europe, but rather from #Arab nations. To expect them to leave #Israel is unprecedented, unrealistic and wrong."
[I don't agree with her opinion on "river to the sea", but I do agree on "go back to Europe".]
@plink@palestine@israel Yeah the Sephardim are native to Palestine and the rest of Arabia. I dont really like the idea of telling ethnicities to go somewhere anyway, because thats weird. Jews and Arabs can live in harmony if the states and colonisation stopped
@plink That statement about most jews in Israel being Arab is nonsensical and factually baseless garbage. There have been quite a few genetic studies proving that false and you know? My brooklyn neighborhood in the 1960s was full of semitic dark skin jews who fled. The invaders didn't trust them b/c they lived peacefully with the arabs, and the arabs stopped trusting them because most saw it as a tribal issue and conflict. @palestine@israel
An appropriate target, but waiting for the attacks on #Jews generally. If that occurs, this jew ABSOLUTELY BLAMES the #Zionists Entity occupying #Palestine for it. They're endangering every Jew on the planet.
Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
"Your encampment is a threat to the global witch hunt campaign (IHRA) to change the meaning of anti-Semitism (Being against #Jews because they are Jews). The #IHRA campaign attacks you as anti-Semitic because you criticize #Israel racist apartheid. The IHRA opposes the wearing of the Kyffeyeh and persecutes all defenders of #Palestine freedom." #Gaza#SolidarityWithPalestine#NotAntisemitism @palestine@israel
"It's our duty to fight back," said Rep. Summer#Lee, arguing that no super PAC "should be able to drop millions to usurp the conversation for their agenda."
"As the descendant of European #jews I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing," wrote Maj. Harrison Mann.