The #ADL Doubles Down on Opposing the Anti- #Zionist #Left

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-adl-doubles-down-on-opposing-the-anti-zionist-left

#palestine @palestine

“New #Jewish organization commits to fighting #Zionist institutions”

by Jews Against White Supremacy in @mondoweiss

“Jews Against #WhiteSupremacy seeks to educate and radically transform #Jewish communities around the world while challenging #settlercolonialism and fighting for a free #Palestine.”

“#JAWS is an explicitly #AntiZionist Jewish organization dedicated to fighting Zionist Jewish institutions. As per their charter, JAWS “exist(s) to fight for the liberation of Palestine by any means possible. We vehemently oppose the Zionist settler colonial project of Israel and are against all forms of settler colonialism.”

This growing organization, with a presence in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Indonesia, prioritizes internationalism at the forefront of its organizing.

“We strongly believe there is a need for a Jewish anti-Zionist organization such as ours which specifically focuses on challenging Jewish Zionist institutions and fighting Zionism in our community at its most pervasive core,” says organizer M. Wisnefsky “As Jews for whom the Zionist settler colonial project is being committed in our name we have a specific duty to fight these institutions which have been responsible for actively perpetuating a #genocide in Palestine and who claim to represent us.”

#ApartheidIsrael #SettlerColonialism #EthnicCleansing #ChildMurder #ChildTorture

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/08/new-jewish-organization-commits-to-fighting-zionist-institutions/?ml_recipient=98115330617902216&ml_link=98114872413259486&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-09-01&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

I’ve just started reading Hil #Aked's new book “Friends of #Israel: the Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity” (Verso, 2023) in order to get a better handle on what the #IsraelLobby in Britain today looks like and how it works to enable and sustain the regime of #Apartheid oppression by the Israeli state against Palestinians.

#Palestine solidarity activism globally, especially the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (#BDS) movement, is facing a major pro-Israel backlash. Aked’s book tells the story of this repression in #Britain with detail and nuance, explaining the role of the #Israeli and #British governments and the #Zionist movement.

By pushing back against efforts to conflate criticism of Israel with #antisemitism and demystifying the #IsraelLobby actors defending Israeli apartheid, Aked carves out a space for an anti-racist discussion about the pro-Israel networks standing in the way of Palestine solidarity, situating them as part of the long history of British #complicity in Israeli #Apartheid.

Quoting briefly from an early section of the book entitled “Britain’s historic responsibility”:

“Britain’s historic and ongoing role on Palestinian oppression cannot be overstated. In the early years of Zionist settler colonialism, British imperialism had something of a symbiotic relationship with the Zionist movement; indeed, the former nurtured the latter in its formative years.

[..] The original foundation, then, of British support for the Zionist project was its usefulness to the British Empire, just as Israel’s ‘special relationship’ with North America today rests, to a very significant degree, on its utility to US imperialism.

This book therefore attempts to situate the birth and ongoing activities of the British Zionist movement within the broader history of British state racism which continues to this day. [..] The same racist political logic shaped Britain’s treatment of colonial populations, from Palestinians to the Windrush generation, and both groups continue to suffer the consequences today.”

To wrap up this mini🧵 on the First #Zionist Congress in Basel (29-31 August 19897)

The subsequent Congresses (annual, then biennial, up to 1948, with wartime interruptions) issued postcards and sometimes secured special local postmarks.

1-2) The 1897 #postcard, which, like the souvenir folder in the previous post, served as a Rosh Hashanah greeting

3) 1901 card by E. M. Lilien, which @mmargolis will appreciate @bookhistodons : follow her!

https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/official-postcards-of-the-first-zionist-congresses/2022/06/08/

#philately
#Mazeldon 3/n

#Ephemera: When unfolded, this album commemorating the First #Zionist Congress (August 29-31, 1897), depicts the delegates.

Here, 162 of them. Figures vary, but 200-250 persons took part, including 17 #women—though they became voting members only in 1898

Interesting that this evidently American document featured portraits of not only the movement’s leaders—but also #Washington and Columbus. Trying to suggest an equivalence of nation-building—or just patriotic filler?

#Mazeldon 2/n

Lest we forget: Any #Israeli attack on #Gaza, where 40% of people are aged 14 or younger, is an attack on children! In #UK, such atrocities are endorsed by the @UKLabour #Zionist clique! But if you mention it you will be accused of '#AntiSemitism'

via @mondoweiss

#ApartheidIsrael #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #LabourFriendsOfApartheid

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/08/israels-war-on-children-in-gaza/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet

If there is any lingering doubt in your mind that the state of #Israel is a #Racist, #SettlerColonial, #JewishSupremacist & #Apartheid entity, please have a read of Tony #Greenstein’s latest blog post:

“WHAT IS #ZIONISM? Is it a National Liberation Movement or an Ideology & Movement of Jewish Supremacism & Settler Colonialism?”

In it he writes:

“The Israeli Labor Party (ILP) has always declared that it wishes to see a separation between the #Palestinians and Jews which was its reason for supporting a Palestinian ‘state’ (in reality a #Bantustan) in the West Bank. It did not want a Palestinian majority in a ‘Jewish’ state. Apartheid [in South Africa] too was defined by its authors as ‘separate development.’

When #Netanyahu, #Wasserlauf and #BenGvir talk about #Zionist values they are talking about the values of the Labor Zionist movement and successive ILP governments. They are the values of ethnic cleansing, land confiscation, discriminatory treatment, wars of expansion and colonisation. It used to be called Jewish Labour, Land and Produce. What the ILP started Ben-Gvir is finishing.”

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-zionism-is-it-national.html?m=1

@jenicewild I’m sure many #Israelis, both religious & secular, will have concerns about their futures in a unitary state!

I grew up in what was the #Apartheid state called #Rhodesia. I left as a teenager in 1971 just before the civil war started in earnest. The whites were fighting to maintain white-minority rule in large part because they were terrified by the prospect of being governed by the very same black people that they had been discriminating against & humiliating for almost a century! As it turned out, even though Robert Mugabe turned out to be a totally corrupt dictator, there was no mass slaughter of the small white population after the country became an independent Zimbabwe at the end of the 1970-1980 civil war!

The white minority-ruled #Apartheid government of South Africa was able to sustain itself for much longer by directing a fear-mongering campaign at whites which basically said that, if the black majority came to power, they would all be slaughtered! Many predicted a blood-bath when Apartheid ended & Mandela became President but, as we now know, through his amazing charisma & leadership he was able to prevent that from happening!

My point is: I ‘get’ that Israelis share all kinds of fears & anxieties! I also understand that there are complicated religious & (geo)political issues that would need to be resolved! But the #Genocidal policies being visited on the indigenous #Palestinian population by the increasingly #Fascist Netanyahu government will only prolong the country’s agony! Eventually, the #Zionist #SettlerColonial hegemony will come to an end.

PS: you mention Sharia. Let me ask you a question: in what material respects does strict Islamic Law in any way differ from the strict rabbinical law that the #UltraOrthodox #NeoNazi politicians like Bezalel #Smotritch & Itamar Ben Gvir (& others) want to impose on the largely secular Israeli population?

Full disclosure: I don’t know the answer but I can probably guarantee that there isn’t much difference - especially where eg womens’ rights are concerned

Liberal Zionist groups in the US are begging President Joe Biden to save Israel from itself. Mondoweiss' Phil Weiss and Michael Arria break down the impact of Israel's judicial reforms on the increasingly fragile relationship between Israel and the US public.

#IsraelLobby #AIPAC #ZOA #ConferenceOfPresidents #Judaism #USPolitics #hasbara #zionism #zionist #Israel #Palestine #diaspora #freespeech #rightwing #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #occupation #IDF #IsraelDefenseForces

Will the US ever condition aid to Israel? Israel's ongoing judicial reforms have sparked significant controversy, not only within Israel itself but also among US lawmakers. Mondoweiss' Phil Weiss says the Israel lobby is in '"complete disarray."

#IsraelJudicialReforms #IsraelLobby #AIPAC #ZOA #ConferenceOfPresidents #Judaism #USPolitics #hasbara #zionism #zionist #Israel #Palestine #diaspora #freespeech #rightwing #CanaryMission #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #occupation #IDF

Israel's ongoing judicial reforms have sparked significant controversy, not only within Israel itself but also among US lawmakers. As the landscape is reshaped by these reforms, Mondoweiss' Phil Weiss and Michael Arria dissect the unfolding events and the potential repercussions, particularly within the realm of Israel's primary supporters in the US and the influential Israel lobby.

#IsraelLobby #AIPAC #ZOA #Judaism #USPolitics #hasbara #zionism #zionist #Israel #Palestine

Here's #RFK Jr. laser focusing on Fauci & #Pharma #kompromat. He's naming names again & laying out the concise argument that #Fauci is the J. Edgar Hoover of public health.

Cross #Tony & your career goes kaput & go bankrupt! Or to jail like Judy #Mikovitz.

BTW I'm no fan of his delusional #Zionist stance on Israel. Here's to hoping that he gets in contact with someone like Ry #Dawson, Pete #Quinones, Robert #Inlakesh, or Scott #Horton, he needs a history lesson #Israel.

@adam @Johncdvorak

@Elizabeth3 We are speaking on the same issue, Elizabeth, the state of Isreal has associated the Star of Israel with its #zionist activities, not its critiques. We would all love to see the end of this, but it will not happen without a complete overhaul of #zionism.

@tagesschau @guardiannews
I'm a Jew, living in #Germany and consider the "#Central #Council of #Jews" as bad and #Schuster as an #idiot. I'm a #Zionist. But I think #BDS is an understandable #response to #humanrightsviolations and the exercise of a #humanright by itself. #Humanrights are inalienable and indivisible. Even an #idiot such as #Schuster should be able to understand that. Nevertheless, #BDS is of course worthy of #criticism. Of course, I will not allow my #Haaretz or my #CheckPoint..

@rainbowdash I hear you. But I guess I am an inveterate optimist. Yes, they know what's happening. But we can let them know that *we* know what's happening. Maybe at some point this can overbalance their devotion to the $ from the #zionist lobby.

@serge greetings, hola and shalom! Just finding my way on here. Found you from the #Zionist tag. Looking for more of the Tribe and also #LGBTQ and #BlackTwitter which were my go-tos on That Other Place. I'm a semi-retired, happily married Zionist Jew, more culturally Jewish than religiously. Lived most my life in Miami, now in the desert. US voting democrat. Mostly trying to figure this place out 😀

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What about all the #usa and the #zionist #warcrimes

In the new CounterVortex podcast, we compare the military and settler attacks on Palestinian towns in the West Bank with the eruption of ethnic violence in Northeast India's state of #Manipur—and uncover the unlikely connection between the two. Land-rooted peoples usurped in both territories by a #Hindutva-#Zionist alliance. https://countervortex.org/blog/podcast-from-manipur-to-the-west-bank/

There are #Palestinians with the surname Sahyoun literally #Zion

Because Palestinian are the #indigenous people of #Palestine. They are the descendants of #Canaanites including Judeans and #Israelites as well as #Arabs

I hate how the #settler #Zionist movement appropriated even their surnames.

@Tilopa@convo.casa

He works for the Jews because he is a Christian #Zionist Shabbos #Goy. #DeShabbos #RonDeShabbos