If you run a bar and don’t kick out Nazis, you run a Nazi bar. If you’re a regular at a bar that doesn’t kick out Nazis, you’re a regular at a Nazi bar. If you cannot summon the ethical fortitude to forthrightly reject and eject Nazism in your community, your family, your church, you’re materially aiding the Nazi project.
I agree, the article is giving you some ethical trouble. You should consider if you are ethically aligning yourself against Zionism if you cannot stomach the dissolution of organs and organizations that serve Zionism before Jews. Judaism is a religion, and connecting modern Judaism to a mythologized Jewish “race” is exactly Zionism.
I’m fine with the dissolution of these organs, and I’m not sure that the Nazi bar analogy works here. There’s still a difference between someone who practices Judaism and someone involved in the Zionist-supporting organizations. A person can be culturally Jewish and be vocally against support of Israel, and also for BDS, for example. There is a breadth of diversity amongst the Jewish diaspora, as well as a history of jewish-run cultural organizations that have disassociated from and denounce Israel and Zionism. This article diminishes this identity and work and lumps all Jews into one “morally bankrupt” basket.
For example, JVP, which is a large organization. There are enough thought leaders to support a conference on non-zionist traditions at Brown, and this is just one of many.
Anyway, I see I might be one of the few here who thinks that calling for Jewish people (any person who is Jewish will do!) to sacrifice their life for the struggle against Israel, and then setting that as the bar for proving that the Jewish people aren’t “morally bankrupt” is antisemitic, so I’ll just stop now.
If you run a bar and don’t kick out Nazis, you run a Nazi bar. If you’re a regular at a bar that doesn’t kick out Nazis, you’re a regular at a Nazi bar. If you cannot summon the ethical fortitude to forthrightly reject and eject Nazism in your community, your family, your church, you’re materially aiding the Nazi project.
I agree, the article is giving you some ethical trouble. You should consider if you are ethically aligning yourself against Zionism if you cannot stomach the dissolution of organs and organizations that serve Zionism before Jews. Judaism is a religion, and connecting modern Judaism to a mythologized Jewish “race” is exactly Zionism.
I’m fine with the dissolution of these organs, and I’m not sure that the Nazi bar analogy works here. There’s still a difference between someone who practices Judaism and someone involved in the Zionist-supporting organizations. A person can be culturally Jewish and be vocally against support of Israel, and also for BDS, for example. There is a breadth of diversity amongst the Jewish diaspora, as well as a history of jewish-run cultural organizations that have disassociated from and denounce Israel and Zionism. This article diminishes this identity and work and lumps all Jews into one “morally bankrupt” basket.
For example, JVP, which is a large organization. There are enough thought leaders to support a conference on non-zionist traditions at Brown, and this is just one of many.
Anyway, I see I might be one of the few here who thinks that calling for Jewish people (any person who is Jewish will do!) to sacrifice their life for the struggle against Israel, and then setting that as the bar for proving that the Jewish people aren’t “morally bankrupt” is antisemitic, so I’ll just stop now.