What happens when a gentile is a Zionist? Ten years ago a nephew of mine was spouting his antisemitic nonsense in my flat despite my objections to his offensive words. He suddenly looks at me and says "but Uncle John I don't hate Jews I only hate Zionists!" So I replied, "what you mean is you hate people who support the right of Jewish self-determination in their ancestral homeland?" Looking increasingly perplexed, he asked me what I meant? I said,"my dear boy, I am a Zionist!" He looked at me and literally fled and I have not seen or heard from him in ten years, not that he would be welcome. My own theory is that the irrational mind often cannot exist in the presence of rational thought, and hatred of the other is irrational. When it comes to Jewish people I agree completely that Zionist or non-Zionist matters not a jot, all are hated by the antisemite just like religious or secular Jews are equally hated by them.
I really wish that the Director of the DEI office that I met with a few days ago at UBC would read this. So many people on the left do not understand this at all. How are you able to maintain your identity as a leftist? I find myself drifting right ward, but it’s not comfortable in any way since I don’t support any socially conservative policies. Where do we fit?
I was always a centre-centre-left kind of liberal. I found now that the "centre" has jerked so much to the left, that I need to jerk to the right to simply get back to my centre. As I write this, I am sitting through an EDI course where we are talking about how to lead equity, diversity and inclusion - more more more EDI. It has become such a dense fog, impossible to get through.
With ya!!! I’m very much a liberal but find the Jew hate seeping into so-called liberal spaces for years has just found new air in the war Hamas began. When I found myself listening to Ben Shapiro…who I otherwise find nauseating…. Or I’m all about Bari Weiss! Until she starts in on transgender….
I was mystified why so many of my “friends “ wanted me to disparage Netanyahu. I would always respond with “you know that they vote in Israel? “. I really didn’t understand the meaning of their words.
People's methods of thinking are so sloppy and emotional these days that they eagerly conflate Jews and Zionists (Despite the existence of Christian Zionists). So it's not love/hate; it's hate/rationalizations.
The anti semitism is horrendous. But just like everything in this world it's a paradox. Through the disgusting barbaric behavior we see the Truth. The truth is behind the civilizing facade. Technology doesn't make a better world.
What happens when a gentile is a Zionist? Ten years ago a nephew of mine was spouting his antisemitic nonsense in my flat despite my objections to his offensive words. He suddenly looks at me and says "but Uncle John I don't hate Jews I only hate Zionists!" So I replied, "what you mean is you hate people who support the right of Jewish self-determination in their ancestral homeland?" Looking increasingly perplexed, he asked me what I meant? I said,"my dear boy, I am a Zionist!" He looked at me and literally fled and I have not seen or heard from him in ten years, not that he would be welcome. My own theory is that the irrational mind often cannot exist in the presence of rational thought, and hatred of the other is irrational. When it comes to Jewish people I agree completely that Zionist or non-Zionist matters not a jot, all are hated by the antisemite just like religious or secular Jews are equally hated by them.
I really wish that the Director of the DEI office that I met with a few days ago at UBC would read this. So many people on the left do not understand this at all. How are you able to maintain your identity as a leftist? I find myself drifting right ward, but it’s not comfortable in any way since I don’t support any socially conservative policies. Where do we fit?
I was always a centre-centre-left kind of liberal. I found now that the "centre" has jerked so much to the left, that I need to jerk to the right to simply get back to my centre. As I write this, I am sitting through an EDI course where we are talking about how to lead equity, diversity and inclusion - more more more EDI. It has become such a dense fog, impossible to get through.
Ugh. DEI. Did they include the chapter that explains “except for the Jews?” Fingernails on a chalkboard.
we are skillfully avoiding mentions of any specific ethnic groups, though there has been plenty of references to various gender groups
With ya!!! I’m very much a liberal but find the Jew hate seeping into so-called liberal spaces for years has just found new air in the war Hamas began. When I found myself listening to Ben Shapiro…who I otherwise find nauseating…. Or I’m all about Bari Weiss! Until she starts in on transgender….
zionism good
Proud to be a bad Jew.
grattytude from a "bad chew!" ;-)
(am israel chai !)
I was mystified why so many of my “friends “ wanted me to disparage Netanyahu. I would always respond with “you know that they vote in Israel? “. I really didn’t understand the meaning of their words.
Yes, I’ve been dropped by almost all of them.
People's methods of thinking are so sloppy and emotional these days that they eagerly conflate Jews and Zionists (Despite the existence of Christian Zionists). So it's not love/hate; it's hate/rationalizations.
The anti semitism is horrendous. But just like everything in this world it's a paradox. Through the disgusting barbaric behavior we see the Truth. The truth is behind the civilizing facade. Technology doesn't make a better world.
Being anti-crimes against humanity, genocide and right wing nut job Zionism is not anti-Semitic . Get a grip