Quite the mind fuck being an American Jew and descendant of Holocaust survivors right now, as nazis and republicans call Jewish protesters “antisemitic.” I don’t blame anyone for being confused by it all. Just know that your Jewish friends have been angry about it for a long time. And remember that anyone claiming to speak for all Jews probably isn’t.
We have long watched as the worst people use us as an excuse to enact their power fantasies. Please don’t believe them when they do.
"I live in the country that murdered my ancestors and now abuses my identity to support and excuse the murder of others, this experience is truly the lowest point in my life as a Jewish person. The Nazis are cheering and using the Jews as their pompoms." https://x.com/Deborah_Feldman/status/1775858411323679227
@fraying I admit I'm one of the confused people. As a lefty who's been against the settlements and general authoritarian side of Israel and who thinks Palestinians deserve a state, I was frankly shocked by anyone on the left defending the Oct 9 massacre. I didn't expect that to be ok with anyone -- anyone on the left, anyone with an ounce of humanity -- let alone be defended as necessary.
If we are somehow putting that aside, then I just don't understand the current demands.
@fraying It's really weird to see right-wingers talk about antisemitism as if antisemitism isn't almost exclusively (in the West) the domain of the right-wing.
It starts to make sense when you learn that that fascists have always used Jews as an excuse for violence. Against us, for us, either way, we’re just pawns in it.
@fraying Oh. Oh! I get it. This is completely consistent with European antisemitism: using a fiction of what Jews are like to support institutions of power, Catholicism then and American hegemony today.
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