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Mosby

(17,452 posts)
Wed May 8, 2024, 10:14 AM May 2024

(JEWISH GROUP) Jews Are Becoming More, Not Less, Zionist

Last week, at a Passover seder doubling as an anti-Israel protest, Naomi Klein called for an “exodus from Zionism.” The delight many take in passing around this Jew’s denunciation of Zionism reflects our topsy-turvy universe. A few, marginalized, anti-Zionist Jews snare massive headlines, as the overwhelming majority of pro-Israel Jews feel marginalized. Klein is wrong. On Oct. 7, many Jews experienced an exodus to Zionism, not from – abandoning their delusions that Jew-hatred had ended and Hamas was pragmatic.

Trying to reject “the false idol of Zionism,” Klein demonized the Middle East’s only feminist-friendly, LGBTQ+-welcoming, democratic state as a “militaristic ethnostate.” Profaning the holiness of the Passover seder, she proclaimed “tonight we say: It ends here.”

What she called “Our Judaism” is “internationalist,” cannot “be protected by” Israel’s “rampaging military,” and is “not threatened by people raising their voices in solidarity with Palestine,” because “in that chorus lies both our support and our collective liberation.”

Really?

Klein’s “Our Judaism” distorts Jewish history. Accusing Israel of “colonial land theft” negates Jews’ 3,500-year-old indigenous roots. Charging “ethnic cleansing” overlooks the U.N.’s 1947 partition plan and every other compromise Palestinians rejected. And crying “genocide” perverts theword’s meaning – eliminating another nation: the Palestinian population quintupled since 1948, and grew by 35% since 2009, when Klein first accused Israel of “genocide.”

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/371143/jews-are-becoming-more-not-less-zionist/

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(JEWISH GROUP) Jews Are Becoming More, Not Less, Zionist (Original Post) Mosby May 2024 OP
Naomi Klein is a jackass, and has been one for sometime. Just because someone is Jewish, doesn't mean they speak JohnSJ May 2024 #1
Naomi Klein does not speak for me... agingdem May 2024 #2
Mahlao John.. I feel the same way Cha May 2024 #4
Yes she was. JohnSJ May 2024 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2024 #3
Seriously, you come into the Jewish Group Cha May 2024 #6
Remember, anti-Semitism is probably the only bigotry constantly dismissed. AZLD4Candidate May 2024 #7

JohnSJ

(96,520 posts)
1. Naomi Klein is a jackass, and has been one for sometime. Just because someone is Jewish, doesn't mean they speak
Wed May 8, 2024, 10:24 AM
May 2024

for all Jews.

It would be equivalent to saying Clarence Thomas speaks for all African Americans.

Naomi Klein is a left wing activist, author and filmaker and does not represent mainstream Canadian thinking, and she should stay there.

Zionism is simply support for Israel as a Jewish state. It is not against a Palestinian state.



agingdem

(8,541 posts)
2. Naomi Klein does not speak for me...
Wed May 8, 2024, 12:10 PM
May 2024

Last edited Wed May 8, 2024, 12:49 PM - Edit history (1)

Naomi Klein thinks if Jews play the victim antisemites will forgive us for surviving Hitler's Final Solution....


NEVER AGAIN!!!!

Cha

(305,385 posts)
4. Mahlao John.. I feel the same way
Wed May 8, 2024, 07:49 PM
May 2024

about Naomi Klien.

She was a Hillary hater.. this is how stupid she is.

Naomi Klein tells Al Jazeera she doesn’t trust Hillary On Climate Change…

https://network.aljazeera.net/en/pressroom/naomi-klein-tells-al-jazeera-she-doesn%E2%80%99t-trust-hillary-clinton-climate-change

Response to Mosby (Original post)

Cha

(305,385 posts)
6. Seriously, you come into the Jewish Group
Wed May 8, 2024, 07:56 PM
May 2024

and insult one of the members with

"Straw Argument" and " And this is why people like me will never take people like you seriously."

Oh and Fuck the Genocidal, Bloodthirsty Terrorist Org Hamas.

AZLD4Candidate

(6,274 posts)
7. Remember, anti-Semitism is probably the only bigotry constantly dismissed.
Thu May 9, 2024, 08:01 AM
May 2024

Jews are NOT a protected class of people here.

Racism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, xenophobia, ageism. . .these are all protected and subject to Title IX protection.

Jews aren't, so claims of anti-Semitism can be ignored. Hating Jews is part of the right and the left in this country.

We are completely alone as we always have been being Jewish.

Being being disabled (well physically is) isn't really protected, being in the month I have been back in the States from 17 years overseas, I've had my ADA disabilities and the medication I use for them (which has with side-effects that affect my physically) used against me to the point I won't continue doing my Teacher certification transfer from AZ to PA for it after how I was treated as a sub here.

My Asperger's, Bi-polar, and diabetes, along with the five medications I take for them, affect me big time and the medication literally zombifies me around 1:00PM to the point I start passing out. When I explained that, I was told it doesn't matter about that.

We have a big bigotry problem here now. At least my green card holding Chinese wife is protected.

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