as small as a world and as large as alone

9:10pm August 26, 2014

returnofthejudai:

lampard-is-king:

Everyone can differentiate between being an Anti-Zionist and Anti-Semitic apart from Zionist. 

Lets be clear with this. Being against the state of Israel doesn’t make you Anti-Semitic. I mean could you imagine calling these Jews Anti-Semitic?

[Image Description: photo of The Neturei Karta burning the flag of Israel.]  

[Image Description: photo of The Neturei Karta holding a sign that says “State of ‘Israel’ do not represent world Jewery”]

Image Description: photo of The Neturei Karta holding various signs. One sign reads, “Zionism is state organized terror”. Another sign reads, “Zionism is the cause of Mideast bloodshed.”]

Being anti-Zionist isn’t inherently anti-semitic. TOKENIZING THE NETUREI KARTA IS ANTI-SEMITIC. 

Why? Because in your rush to prove that you aren’t anti-semitic by tokenizing a Jewish sect that is visibly anti-zionist, you show an incredible intellectual laziness when it comes to social justice as a whole and the place of Jews within the movement.

A few points you need to know.

1. The Neturei Karta believe that the Holocaust happened because Jews assimilated too much. They mock and spit on the genocide of their own people. They even attended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s conference on Holocaust Denial.
2. They are profoundly misogynistic. Did you wonder why there are no women in any pictures of the NK at anti-Zionist rallies? It’s because they oppress the living hell out of them. They literally believe women should not be seen in public. Your activism is not intersectional here. 
3. They are opposed to Zionism not because of solidarity with the Palestinians, but because they believe that Jews should only be in Israel during the messianic age. Their opposition is religious in nature, not driven by compassion for the Palestinians. When/if the messianic age comes, they’ll be perfectly happy removing the Palestinians by any means they see fit.
4. They have marched in solidarity with fascist, xenophobic and racist political parties like Jobbik.

There are many, many more problems with them. There are Jewish groups that are ACTUALLY motivated by justice for ALL people, but in your lazy efforts to prove that you aren’t anti-semitic, you are not only showing that you really have no interest in learning anything about Jews, you have supported a group that is sexist, racist, fascist and altogether awful. You could have done the tiniest bit of research and discovered the Jewish Voice for Peace, but that would take too much effort, wouldn’t it? 

What you’ve proven here is that you only care about Jews insofar as you can defend yourself against charges of anti-semitism. You’ve failed spectacular on that front. 

Mazel Tov! /sarcasm

Also, there are many, many Zionists who do know the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-semitism, but you’ve shown that you truly don’t know what Zionism is outside of a fancy way of saying “Israel.”

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