Four antisemites won’t stop me supporting Palestine
JVL Introduction
Rivka Brown is editor of Vashti, an online magazine launched in 2019 “to pursue an ongoing inquiry into what it means to be a Jewish leftist in Britain and the wider world today”.
Jewish post-traumatic anxiety, understandable as it is, says Brown, can lead British Jews to self-centre.
It has consequences: so often we cannot see the suffering of other minorities which we believe can’t possibly be comparable to our own.
Or, as Brown puts it graphically: “Reliving historic genocide, we fail to recognise the present-day genocide Israel is enacting in our names. The Holocaust ended; the Nakba never did.”
We must, she affirms, refuse to allow one antiracist struggle to derail another.
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Thanks to Vashti for permission to repost.
This article was originally published by Vashti on Tue 18 May 2021. Read the original here.
Four antisemites won’t stop me supporting Palestine
If Jewish solidarity withers in the face of the few bigots who drove down Finchley Road on Sunday, it is no solidarity at all.
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I think you shouldn’t publish anything by Rivkah Brown (not ‘Rivka’) until she apologises to Chris Williamson and deletes her tweet describing him as a ‘nasty Jew baiter’.
I do not know whether the allegations concerning the 4 people who went in a motorcade flying the Palestinian flag through Finchley are guilty of making anti-Semitic comments. There are suggestions that the comments were dubbed. I don’t know and neither do you. However there was a similar example of crude dubbing when Israel massacred 9 people on the Mava Marmiri.
It may be that they are guilty. I don’t know. What seems clear is that the police haven’t charged anyone yet