I want Jews to understand how monumentally tone deaf this is.
we're meant to wait—our lives withering, our homes stolen, our loved ones killed, dying, or destroyed, our heritage erased—for American Jews to wake up from their stupor and tell us what political solution they prefer?
the fact that you believe that your preference (Jewish American preference) for how Palestinian liberation should look is itself an indication of how far you still have in your journey to a moral awakening.
focus on liberating yourselves and your religion. we Palestinians will determine what our destiny will look like in our own homeland. that day will come, no matter how far off it may seem now. whether we allow our genocidal colonizers to remain will be up to us. not American Jews, or anyone else.
I want non-Jews to understand how monumental this shift as.
As Jews we are raised with endless propaganda about how great Israel is. It’s part of our prayers, our family gatherings, our education, our extra curricular activities, even our fraternities.
It’s everywhere, and there’s never another side presented. I practically never even heard the word Palestinian growing up. There was no asterisk next to how great Israel was. No war crimes to atone for. No ethnic cleansing, no open air prison, no list of massacres - just endless propaganda. And free paid trips to Israel from billionaires to try to convince us to move there.
And that’s not to even mention the generic American propaganda we all face daily.
So it’s absolutely staggering, that in the face of that endless, relentless propaganda, 44% of young American Jews favor the establishment of one non-religious state in Israel/occupied Palestine.
Many of us are pissed that we’ve been lied to. We’ve done the research and learned the history about how truly Hitlerian Israel’s history is.
This isn’t something that just happens by accident. You don’t have such large percentages of people mistakenly turning against their families, cultures, and traditions due to misinformation or misunderstandings. This kind of shift can only happen when people are exposed to the absolute worst horrors on the planet that their people have committed.
The human psyche can justify or use cognitive dissonance for almost anything.
But the evils from Israel have gone too far for far too long.
Nobody with a conscience who is educated about what Israel has done for the past hundred years can come to a conclusion other than, “Israel in its current form should simply not exist.”