Submitted by anon (not verified) on Mon, 05/31/2021 - 13:18
Alright, you should probably get crimethinc on the horn then, hopefully they'll get back to you with a revised piece starting with the Jews entering Canaan and working their way through the founding of the first caliphate up to today. A little weighty for a piece about some rioting but hopefully they're up to the task.
Again, I think your criticism of this piece seems misplaced given it's written by someone who's likely Jewish themselves. You're taking a specific concern (is Palestinian solidarity in the US overlooking antisemetic actions) and applying it to an article that's not even written there. Did you miss this?
"What we desperately need right now is a joint insurrection, co-resistance, involving Jews and Arabs and all the people of this land, against all the authorities that keep us down and prevent us from seeing each other as fellow human beings. In the spaces of revolt, we must create autonomous liberated territories in which we could construct new ways of seeing each other and the world around us—to reinvent living, sharing a space as equals"
I'm not sure what you're talking about in LA but I'd wager it wasn't an event held by anarchists, in which case what are you asking of us? Should I get my affinity group together to issue a statement about an event that's about as removed from me as the situation this crimethinc article is writing about?
As for being concerned about how Israeli Jews are being portrayed, well, tough - I think this person has reason to be pessimistic given they perceive the majority of Israelis to be either actively or passively complicit with the violence of the occupation (in 67 and 48). Forgive them for not making more of an effort to highlight a few bright spots that don't represent the norm in Israeli society at all. Similarly with the term Judaization - this is a common term used by the Israeli government itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaization_of_Jerusalem#Defining_Judaization) and refers to policies that are totally relevant to what's going on in the conflict they're writing about.
Alright, you should probably get crimethinc on the horn then, hopefully they'll get back to you with a revised piece starting with the Jews entering Canaan and working their way through the founding of the first caliphate up to today. A little weighty for a piece about some rioting but hopefully they're up to the task.
Again, I think your criticism of this piece seems misplaced given it's written by someone who's likely Jewish themselves. You're taking a specific concern (is Palestinian solidarity in the US overlooking antisemetic actions) and applying it to an article that's not even written there. Did you miss this?
"What we desperately need right now is a joint insurrection, co-resistance, involving Jews and Arabs and all the people of this land, against all the authorities that keep us down and prevent us from seeing each other as fellow human beings. In the spaces of revolt, we must create autonomous liberated territories in which we could construct new ways of seeing each other and the world around us—to reinvent living, sharing a space as equals"
I'm not sure what you're talking about in LA but I'd wager it wasn't an event held by anarchists, in which case what are you asking of us? Should I get my affinity group together to issue a statement about an event that's about as removed from me as the situation this crimethinc article is writing about?
As for being concerned about how Israeli Jews are being portrayed, well, tough - I think this person has reason to be pessimistic given they perceive the majority of Israelis to be either actively or passively complicit with the violence of the occupation (in 67 and 48). Forgive them for not making more of an effort to highlight a few bright spots that don't represent the norm in Israeli society at all. Similarly with the term Judaization - this is a common term used by the Israeli government itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaization_of_Jerusalem#Defining_Judaization) and refers to policies that are totally relevant to what's going on in the conflict they're writing about.