Berlin 1933. The brownshirts held their rally then marched to a Jewish owned shop to make the staff & their customers feel unsafe.
Glasgow 2023. The anti semites held their rally then marched to a Jewish owned shop to make the staff & their customers feel unsafe.#ScotlandsShamepic.twitter.com/7Cs5Ew8s1Y
– the nation of Palestine (whatever that means currently);
– the actions of the Palestinian government;
– the actions of non-governmental groups.
I keep looking for nuance in the various protests, and in reports of these protests. I keep hoping to see protesters make clear that they are criticizing government actions and not damning the civilian populations. I keep hoping for news coverage to make this clear. But it is distressingly rare. Protests like this one are described as “pro-Palestine” rather than “pro Palestinian people” or “anti Israeli indiscriminate attacks” or similar. And the protests, regardless of what chants or slogans they invoke, seem to show up to harass Jewish people or groups, rather than Israeli government offices. Why M&S, instead of the Israeli consulate? Why banging on the windows of a library harboring Jewish students, instead of anything whatsoever associated with the Israeli government, or with the American government or military, or anything at all relevant to the actual war effort?
“Israel is a terrorist state” could be a slogan used by anti-Zionist Jews assembled at the Israeli embassy. But no, it’s just a slogan used by people who assume “Israel” and “Jews” are the same thing and bear the same responsibility.
Does this mean that every Jew everywhere is responsible for Israel? (From the POV of the anti-Zionists, of course.)
Behold the new Left. Same as the old
ReichRight.Those people should feel a deep and abiding shame for that.
It is important to me distinguish:
– the actions of the Israeli government;
– the state of Israel itself;
– Israelis;
– Jewish people;
– Palestinian people;
– the nation of Palestine (whatever that means currently);
– the actions of the Palestinian government;
– the actions of non-governmental groups.
I keep looking for nuance in the various protests, and in reports of these protests. I keep hoping to see protesters make clear that they are criticizing government actions and not damning the civilian populations. I keep hoping for news coverage to make this clear. But it is distressingly rare. Protests like this one are described as “pro-Palestine” rather than “pro Palestinian people” or “anti Israeli indiscriminate attacks” or similar. And the protests, regardless of what chants or slogans they invoke, seem to show up to harass Jewish people or groups, rather than Israeli government offices. Why M&S, instead of the Israeli consulate? Why banging on the windows of a library harboring Jewish students, instead of anything whatsoever associated with the Israeli government, or with the American government or military, or anything at all relevant to the actual war effort?
“Israel is a terrorist state” could be a slogan used by anti-Zionist Jews assembled at the Israeli embassy. But no, it’s just a slogan used by people who assume “Israel” and “Jews” are the same thing and bear the same responsibility.
All that.
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