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Related: About this forum(Jewish Group) The war against the Jewish story
How has it come to this? How is it possible that Israel, rather than radical Islamism, would become the villain on liberal campuses? That thousands of students would be chanting from the river to the sea even as the Hamas massacre revealed that slogans genocidal implications? That the most passionate outbreak of student activism since the 1960s would be devoted to delegitimizing the Jewish peoples story of triumph over annihilation?
This moment didnt happen in a vacuum. The anti-Zionist forces in academia have been preparing the ground for decades, systematically dismantling the moral basis of each stage of Zionist and Israeli history.
The attack began on the very origins of Zionism, which was transformed from a story of a dispossessed people re-indigenizing in its ancient homeland into one more sordid expression of European colonialism. (Europes post-Holocaust gift to the Jews: leaving us with the bill for its sins.)
Next, the birth of Israel in 1948 was reduced to the Nakba, or catastrophe, a Palestinian narrative of total innocence that ignores the ethnic cleansing of Jews from every place where Arab armies were victorious and the subsequent uprooting of the entire Jewish population of the Muslim world. Post-1967 Israel was cast as an apartheid state turning Zionism, a multi-faceted movement representing Jews across the political and religious spectrum into a racist ideology and reducing an agonizingly complex national conflict into a medieval passion play about Jewish perfidy.
And now, with the Gaza War, we have come to the genocide canard, the endpoint in the process of delegitimization.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-war-against-the-jewish-story/
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madaboutharry
(40,981 posts)Hieronymus Phact
(466 posts)Was turning the Arab-Israeli Conflict
into the Israeli Palestine war.
Lets 2/3 of the participants off the hook, even though nothing else changed regarding the war against the Israelis.
Pikim
(4 posts)I found GK Chesterton's book "The New Jerusalem" had several valuable insights into the history of the Jews with regards to the 20th century. I was able to get a much better perspective and free myself from the media positioning. I realized that I do not have to and do not want to participate in choosing a side (religion?). We can be on the side of non-violence.