Thread by zei_squirrel
both Bernie Sanders and AOCIA have said the attack in Boulder was “anti-Semitic”. The attack was explicitly targeted at pro-Israeli Zionists, literally at a Zionist political rally, and the person who did it said he was specifically targeting Zionists. Random Jews were not targeted and attacked. He did not go to some random Synagogue and attack Jews. He did not just find random Jews on the street to attack. It was specifically targeted at a Zionist pro-Israeli fascist group.
The exact same thing happened with the Israeli embassy Christian Zionist who was eliminated. AOCIA and Bernie Sanders lied and did the conflation there too even though he wasn’t even Jewish, and even if he had been, HE WAS NOT TARGETED FOR THAT.
Conflating Israel with all Jews and lying that Zionists who are targeted are not being targeted for their fanatical devotion to the genocidal Israeli death-cult and its mass burning alive, beheading,removed and murder of Palestinian babies, children, girls, boys, women and men, intentionally launders genocidal Zionist propaganda.
So it is not at all surprising that both Sanders and AOCIA who have done this from the beginning of the genocide are still doing it now:
never forget that AOCIA viciously smeared anti-genocide protesters in New York, saying “anti-Semitism has no place in our city”, and voted for the IHRA equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. She helped normalize the fascist Zionist censorship industrial complex that is now kidnapping people off the street
in 2023, right as the genocide was reaching its most murderous levels, Bernie Sanders voted for a Senate Resolution condemning anti-genocide student protesters and organizations as “antisemitic, repugnant, and morally contemptible”. He is directly responsible for the deportations
Zionism is not identical to being Jewish. That is the propaganda lie that is constantly spread to cast every act of opposition to Zionists and the genocidal death-cult as being inherently anti-Semitic, and Bernie Sanders and AOCIA have been key figures in laundering that lie
they keep doing this over and over again. Synagogues that are holding fundraisers for the genocidal Israeliremoved-army that is right now at this moment burning babies alive and starving them are protested, often by anti-Zionist Jews, and it’s written as “OMG ANTISEMITIC ATTACK!!!”
it’s a very simple truism intentionally obscured by propagandist liars like Bernie Sanders and AOCIA: Zionists are targeted not based on their identity, but specifically and explicitly based on their genocidal ideology. John Mearsheimer destroyed this lie:
Yeah agree. Just because an ethnostate is doing a genocide doesn’t mean diaspora Jews deserve any sort of hatred/blowback at all on account of them being Jews
This is why the project must be explicitly anti-zionist, full stop. Any conflation of Jews with Israelis/Zionists is a real fucked up thing.
The second adventurists start bombing places of worship because western Jews are “complicit” (and again, complicity should only be judged by Zionism/support for Israel), the movement will lose massive amounts of legitimacy. Do not fucking go down this road.
What if those places of worship are actively involved in the theft and sale of palestinian land? Or does that break the “because” clause in your final paragraph?
It’s bad optics even if they are. The OG RAF did something like that and look how utterly zionist the “moderate” left became as a result.
Besides normies won’t understand and the Palestinian cause will lose a lot of popular momentum. Oh and say goodbye to all leftist organizations then.
Protesting those sales of stolen land are also “bad optics” because they’re labeled antisemitic. Do auctions of future gazan settlements get to happen unmolested because the zionists use synagogues as a shield?
In the current conditions and given the current capabilities of the Western antizionist movement, violent actions are restricted to random adventurism. There is no organized militia, cadre, or guerilla. It’s literally just random individuals like Elias Rodriguez or this firebomber guy.
Given that limitation, those of us who want an organized antizionist movement should oppose adventurism because we understand that it just gives the enemy more ammunition for reprisals. Violence shouldn’t be undertaken randomly and irresponsibly, it should be used tactically, especially at this stage of the struggle (of course, given the scale of genocide right now, it is already a failure of the Western left that we are in this stage while our comrades are being annihilated in Palestine).
Once the movement reaches a hypothetical higher stage where military operations actually can be carried out to execute a strategy, I don’t think zionists will even feel comfortable holding auctions of stolen land openly, so it’s a moot question.
Protesting isnt shooting up synagogues.
If you mean in Israel itself? Yeah I guess that’s a different kettle of fish. If it’s on occupied land in the war zone I don’t think that any of what I said applies.
However, anywhere else even if you could prove every member is explicitly funding and perpetuating the genocide, I’d suggest doing it at a house of worship muddles the message in a way that’s ultimately antithetical to the movement’s goals. The conflation of Zionism with Jewish religious expression is anathema to any real Zionist movement.
No, there are synagogues in America that actively auction off stolen palestinian land, and protests against such land theft have been labeled as antisemitic because of the location of the auction. The zionists choose to hold it at a house of worship, is the only response to not do anything? Just let them use synagogues as shields?
If you do something like that, it’s incredibly important that you are extremely fucking clear about what and why you are doing that. This is a near impossible task in the capitalist media landscape, so it’s probably not the best starting point.
Lost my comment damnit (stupid refresh).
Yes though. If you’re fully committed to some kind of adventurism then there’s got to be other targets that don’t serve to muddle the message and further the anti-Semitic slander that Jew=Zionist.
It’s simply not worth it. Even if you can prove every single person there is actively participating in the genocide, it’s simply not worth it.
Would be cool if they found themselves psychologically trapped in the buildings where this happens like in the film The Exterminating Angel.