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Showing Original Post only (View all)The war against the Jewish story [View all]
How has it come to this? How is it possible that Israel, rather than radical Islamism, would become the villain on liberal campuses? That thousands of students would be chanting from the river to the sea even as the Hamas massacre revealed that slogans genocidal implications? That the most passionate outbreak of student activism since the 1960s would be devoted to delegitimizing the Jewish peoples story of triumph over annihilation?
This moment didnt happen in a vacuum. The anti-Zionist forces in academia have been preparing the ground for decades, systematically dismantling the moral basis of each stage of Zionist and Israeli history.
The attack began on the very origins of Zionism, which was transformed from a story of a dispossessed people re-indigenizing in its ancient homeland into one more sordid expression of European colonialism. (Europes post-Holocaust gift to the Jews: leaving us with the bill for its sins.)
Next, the birth of Israel in 1948 was reduced to the Nakba, or catastrophe, a Palestinian narrative of total innocence that ignores the ethnic cleansing of Jews from every place where Arab armies were victorious and the subsequent uprooting of the entire Jewish population of the Muslim world. Post-1967 Israel was cast as an apartheid state turning Zionism, a multi-faceted movement representing Jews across the political and religious spectrum into a racist ideology and reducing an agonizingly complex national conflict into a medieval passion play about Jewish perfidy.
And now, with the Gaza War, we have come to the genocide canard, the endpoint in the process of delegitimization.
This moment didnt happen in a vacuum. The anti-Zionist forces in academia have been preparing the ground for decades, systematically dismantling the moral basis of each stage of Zionist and Israeli history.
The attack began on the very origins of Zionism, which was transformed from a story of a dispossessed people re-indigenizing in its ancient homeland into one more sordid expression of European colonialism. (Europes post-Holocaust gift to the Jews: leaving us with the bill for its sins.)
Next, the birth of Israel in 1948 was reduced to the Nakba, or catastrophe, a Palestinian narrative of total innocence that ignores the ethnic cleansing of Jews from every place where Arab armies were victorious and the subsequent uprooting of the entire Jewish population of the Muslim world. Post-1967 Israel was cast as an apartheid state turning Zionism, a multi-faceted movement representing Jews across the political and religious spectrum into a racist ideology and reducing an agonizingly complex national conflict into a medieval passion play about Jewish perfidy.
And now, with the Gaza War, we have come to the genocide canard, the endpoint in the process of delegitimization.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-war-against-the-jewish-story/
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Different situations. And the simplistic response, butt the fuck out, is sometimes right like a broken clock.
paleotn
May 5
#43
The phrase doesn't make the same impression on me, even though I find it a bit awkward.
Beastly Boy
May 5
#33
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity all share the same deity with slightly different names.
Ping Tung
May 5
#23
I think you misunderstand. There were still Jews in Palestine, even during the diaspora
AnrothElf
May 5
#52
the Old Testament was not written down until after the Jews returned from the
yellowdogintexas
May 5
#68
I'm sure any surviving family members of the tens of thousands of slaughtered Gazans
Sky Jewels
May 5
#56
I stand by my position. This is not genocide, and misapplying the term is derogatory and borderline antisemitic.
AnrothElf
May 7
#91
Children are dying of starvation because Israel won't allow sufficient aid to get through to thsoe who need it . . .
markpkessinger
May 6
#79
It might be a war crime, but no, by itself it doesn't rise to the definition of genocide.
AnrothElf
May 6
#81
Also, those who children AREN'T being systematically starved to death have the luxury of quibbling over definitions ...
markpkessinger
May 6
#80
I wouldn't be sticking up for Netanyahu's/Israeli government's/IDF's "morality" if I were you.
Sky Jewels
May 5
#57
How did it come to this? Students ignorant of history were played by social media and influencers.
SunSeeker
May 5
#21
"Death to Israel" and "Death to America" aren't criticisms of Netty or the Israeli government.
yagotme
May 6
#75
the point is israel is way ahead in the number of people being slaughtered and thats bad PR which results
msongs
May 5
#66
I understand the rationale, but the assumption behind it is fundamentally flawed
Beastly Boy
May 6
#72
While I agree with you on the body count, the anti-Israel stuff has been going for decades.
LeftInTX
May 6
#73