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On Zionist feelings

Abdel-Fattah, Randa
http://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/on-zionist-feelings/

Publisher:  Mondoweiss
Date Written:  27/12/2023
Year Published:  2023  
Resource Type:  Article

The feelings and fragility of Zionists are used as a rhetorical shield to deflect from the reality of Palestinian genocide. I refuse to provide reassurances to placate and soothe Zionist political anxieties.

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I find myself asking: do Palestinian feelings -- let alone lives- count? Which feelings are we being asked to hold space for in the context of a genocide against Palestinian people? Why is our advocacy for the basic right to survival constantly juxtaposed with reports about rising antisemitism and the fears and political anxieties of Jewish communities? Why is mention of Palestinian truths and trauma confined or downplayed to avoid offending Jewish Zionist sensibilities?

Why are the strategists who deliberately blur the lines between the ideology of Zionism and the Abrahamic religion of Judaism in order to weaponize antisemitism and shield Israel from criticism not held to account? Why are those who sit in the corridors of power and exhibit zero political faculty to distinguish between Zionism as a White European Jewish supremacist political ideology on the one hand, and Jewish people and the Jewish faith on the other, not called out?

Palestinians and their supporters who, amid the scourging of their homeland, the genocide of their people, the starvation and displacement of survivors, are expected to defer to the fragility of Zionists. We are seeing this play out across multiple sites and contexts -- from protests to expressions of liberatory Palestinian nationalism, to political chants, to language and dress.

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