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The jewish community should have no issue condemning genocide given how deeply it has been touched by it. This doesn’t seem difficult to me, but what do I know.
We typically don’t. The conservative synagogues in my hometown were really concerned about the Darfur genocide; hosting fundraisers and awareness campaigns. They all had signs out front that said “Never Again…in Darfur” but when it comes to Palestinians, the Boomers are just SO rabid.
You’re right; the Jewish community should do better and all the American Jews who send money and make major political donations should demand more, especially given our history.
I felt neutral towards Jewish folks prior to the recent gencocide being carried out by Israel. The response by Jewish activists to condemn genocide has shifted my feelings to neutral-positive. You’re telling me Orthodox Jews living in Israel oppose zionism and are harrassed by Israeli fascists? Sounds like a people with a commendable spirit and culture to me.
Jews? Progressive? Maybe the non-orthodox ones, but I have personal experience, from much of my life, of the opposite. They have schools that don’t teach evolution or sex education, for fuck’s sake.
Judaism has always been traditionalist and always ardently conservative.
This is one of my favorite pieces of protest/aspirational art. It takes two symbols that were created as nationalistic icons of parallel ethnic identify and struggle, co-opting them whilst respecting and corrupting each:
- Handala is shown unclamping his hands from behind his back, in embrace of the Jewish icon…
- Srulik who is humbled and an equal to Handala, as opposed to his normally wry, powerful and competent characterization. He is effaced as well, with both aligned looking towards a shared future.
