The underlying axiom is that Jewish "feelings" are social assets that can and should be defended with institutional violence (like curbing freedom of speech).
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I take criticism seriously. When I am rebuked I try to look into the matter. Would like to share that whenever I've written in favor of anti-genocide protests I have received replies that synagogues are "targeted". Having looked into it I can now say with certainty that protests take place on main roads with no targeting whatsoever. This may seem like a minor issue. It is not.
The underlying axiom is that Jewish "feelings" are social assets that can and should be defended with institutional violence (like curbing freedom of speech). This does not hold for anyone else's feelings. Some Jews consider "from the river to the sea" to be a call for ethnic cleansing? Well, then! We shouldn't offer counter-protests. We should bring in the police!
This is yet another iteration of "necessary Jewish supremacy" that lies at the foundation genocide denials. The notion is that any challenge - rhetorical, aesthetic, political - to the idea that Jews will be annihilated if Palestine is free/ if Palestinian flags can be freely displayed/ if Israel's actions can be harshly critiqued equals "antisemitism". I am an Israeli Jew with no intention of leaving and I reject this notion wholeheartedly.
Jewish lives are not threatened by a call for freedom and equality for Palestinians. Jewish lives that can be lived only through the active repression of critical voices or of any Palestinian voice that does not accept Jewish supremacy, these lives are the products of a virulent political imagination. They exist as avatars of a dehumanizing (for non-Jews and Jews both) social agenda. They should be heard and rejected. No one is worth more than others. Never again is now.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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