After Palestinians, Zionism’s next victim is the Jewish faith
JVL Introduction
Amanda Gelender deplores the way in which quintessentially Jewish symbols are being appropriated by the Israeli Occupation Army.
The menorah, symbol of light and hope, and the Star of David now become glorified signifiers of death and destruction meted out by Israeli soldiers – in the name of saving Jews everywhere from another genocide.
The reverse is true as they try to make us all complicit: “So long as Israel massacres Palestine using the Jewish faith as a weapon of war, people will falsely conflate the global Jewish community with Israel.”
RK
This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Sun 24 Dec 2023. Read the original here.
War on Gaza: After Palestinians, Zionism's next victim is the Jewish faith
Israel’s use of religious symbols in its genocide of Palestinians is an affront to Judaism and has robbed Jews of a faith practice divorced from nationalist barbarism
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When I first read this article, I had to read it again. I had to ask: When Amanda Geleneder, asserts:
“Part of stepping into Jewish anti-Zionism is accepting the fact that our religion has been hijacked by fascists who commit ongoing genocide on behalf of colonial powers.”
Does she mean that the point has been reached, where Judaism has to reassert itself? To redefine itself in opposition to its Fascist Hijackers? To distance itself openly from the Star of David and effectively reject all those traditional symbols of the Jewish faith? Or does she mean reclaiming the cloak of the Jewish faith, used by the Fascist Zionists, to disguise their increasingly open colonial settler apartheid project?
Thank you very much for this insight. You are right the Jewish religion and its symbols being used to justify a genocide upon the Palestinian
People. This all seems to me to have been planned The ramping up
Of West Bank atrocities at the same time as the assaults on Gaza is no coincidence. (I’m not forgetting the Hamas assault on Israel). There are stories on Social
Media that this has been in the planning for 15 years. The Gazans will never get back. They will be refugees and Israel will take over Gaza which is what they have always planned and they then have the whole country. Sorry I
Am getting off the point. The Jewish religion will be used to justify it and the fact that they are ‘Gods Chosen People’.
I welcome this insight, I hope it is shared widely.
I do strongly sympathize with the author, and not only because I could not agree more on the content of her contribution, but I do also admire her for the fact – that she is openly coming out as protagonist for the cause of anti-Zionism, just at a time, that anyone even seemingly slightly sympathizing with the fate of the heavily oppressed autochthonous inhabitants of Palestine by the supremacist allochthonous Zionist-Jews (and their Christian Zionist accomplices) is almost automatically vilified by a violent mob of radical pro-Israel lobbyists.
However (almost) nobody seems to know nowadays, that her ideas and counter (Jewish) mainstream activities, in reality is built on a small, but strong tradition of like-minded people : She for example has been preceded by the anti-Zionist activities of the (Jewish) father of the world famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin, (his father) called : Moshe Menuhin.
Moshe firstly did study Zionism rather thoroughly for ten years and subsequently decided to publicize his findings through several books. He, living in the USA, though had to overcome major obstacles, such as finding a publisher, courageous enough, to give a podium for anti-Zionism. And after his first publication, Moshe did meet the strongarm tactics of the mighty Pro-Israel lobby, which did try to prevent any newspaper in the USA, to give even a reviewing platform to the books of Menuhin.
He finally succeeded, after overcoming all kinds of opposition, provocations and threads, where Jacob Israel de Haan – also a vocal anti-Zionist, but then at the time of the roaring Zionist twenties, because De Haan (an ardent follower of the anti-Zionist Edah HaChareidis) did consider the Zionist settler colonial project, an anti-Judaic enterprise – most literary had been assassinated by the Hagana, for nothing more, but to suggest a strong cooperation between Jews and Arabs.