#and as usual no words from actual antizionist jewish activists......

[thebusylilbee]

Putting the french far-right's old school antisemitism (literally neonazi shit) on the same level as the french left's antizionism is uh...... not intellectually honest to remain polite.

The "constant confounding of Israel, Zionism and Jews" is literally what the centrists and the right as whole have been doing NON-STOP in France since last October, while the left desperately tries to make the distinction clear to the public. Although one of the big figure (Mélenchon cited above) of the far-left has made antisemitic comments in the past he does NOT represent the entire left. He's literally the only one on the left that's on thin ice on this topic meanwhile on the right you could easily cite 30 WELL KNOWN antisemites and many more who hide it better. It it NOT a choice between the plague and cholera, it's a choice between the plague and like... an unpleasant cold. Every single french antizionist jewish group (like Tsedek) has made that very very clear.

It's also a choice that non-jewish maghrebis have had to make since forever if I might add. French maghrebis as a whole have always had to vote strategically for parties that barely tolerate them in order to avoid parties that want them straight-up dead, so the comments of that Sonia Lelloum are absolutely fucking laughable. "'“I’d like France to stay French,” said Lelloum" YOU ARE NOT SEEN AS FRENCH BY FAR-RIGHTERS YOU ABSOLUTE MORON. The fact that she thinks she's somehow not one of the maghrebis the far-right wants gone from this country just because she's not muslim is absolutely delusional, I'm not muslim either and you bet your ass I still get hate from far-righters because they do NOT care about this distinction. A literal case of voting for the Leopard Eating Face party expecting to keep your own face... I'm ashamed to share my origins with her.

Finally I would like to point out this insane sentence, not even contextualized or discussed further in anyway in this article : "While it makes sense for Jews to fear radical Islam, he said, “that doesn’t mean one should rush into the arms of another wolf.”" Implying that a vote for the left is a vote for radical islam is literally insane far-right rhetoric, it doesn't matter if the far-right is compared to "another wolf" too the premise of this comparison is crazy and racist as fuck.

In conclusion : fuck the far-right, fuck racists and fuck people who support the ongoing colonial genocide in Palestine and are ready to sacrifice all non-white french people to defend it.

Covering an entire classroom wall in a Tunisian synagogue in Belleville, an immigrant haven on the slopes of northeastern Paris, are the names of 1,100 Jewish children who were arrested by French police, deported to Auschwitz and killed by the Nazis during World War II.[...]

Despite this dark history, some Jews in Belleville are doing the once unthinkable and voting in France’s National Assembly election for the far-right National Rally party, which is leading in polls for Sunday’s runoff.

One of the party’s founders, Pierre Bousquet, was a French fighter in Hitler’s Waffen-SS. Another, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who led the party from its birth in 1972 until 2011, dismissed Nazi gas chambers as a “detail” of history.[...]

It’s also a measure of how much the French left has enraged Jewish voters with its ferocious attacks on Israel and Zionism as it tries to build support among French Muslims, a substantially larger group of voters.[...]

Judith Benchetrit said she’d voted for the National Rally in the first round — and asked whether anyone else had watched a harrowing TV documentary the night before about the Oct. 7 attack.

It was her deep loathing of the far-left France Unbowed movement and its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, that led her to back the far right.

Mélenchon “campaigns on Palestine, so now he’s got all the Palestinians and every Arab in France behind him,” said Benchetrit, who is 32 and unemployed.

The National Rally has recast itself as an ally of Jews and Israel. If the party wins a majority in the assembly, its leader, Jordan Bardella, could become prime minister, putting France under the far right’s control for the first time since the fall of the Vichy regime that collaborated with the German occupation from 1940 to 1944.[...]

Sonia Lelloum, a daughter of Tunisian Jewish immigrants, said she’d resisted the temptation to vote for the National Rally in previous elections because of its Nazi ties. This time, she said, she went ahead and did it because she likes the party’s crusade against immigration.[...]

Most worrisome to [some] is the constant confounding of Israel, Zionism and Jews.[...]

One of the most stunning illustrations of the new opening to the far right came last month when the renowned Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, 88, an icon to many Jews in France, told French television that if forced to choose between the National Rally and the country’s largest left-wing party, France Unbowed, he would pick the National Rally.

6 Jul 24

[androgynealienfemme]

NYC queer org politics ahead !

Dyke March NYC who’s march theme today will be “dykes against genocide” is being attacked for not being anti Zionist enough on insta because they released and quickly deleted a statement accidentally released without full consensus by the organizers saying that they’re anti Zionist and Pro-Palestinian liberation but also want to assure Jewish community members that they are safe and that we mourn all civilian lives lost and that was enough for the most rabid (mostly white) “leftists antizionists” to turn on this historic dyke led grassroots volunteer protest march.

I want people to understand Dyke March NYC isn’t an “official” organization. There’s no office. It isn’t run by rich donors. It’s entirely volunteer run. And it’s run mostly by poor dykes of color and disabled dykes and dykes who are on the margin in this city. They are putting their own time and money and labor to put together a march that is usually 8,000+ people and provide free water and wheelchairs and taxis for those who need help to get there. And they’re the ones who put their bodies on the line as marshals when we take the streets. Because when the march happens every year, they are the ones who block off traffic for us to march. And right now they are being attacked by people who are saying they are too “institutional” but who refuse to put in their own time to change what they want changed. I doubt most of them were even going to come to the march in the first place.

And going back to the statement. They deleted it because the statement was put out without full consensus, and they wanted to write a more detailed statement in support of Palestinian liberation while also assuring Jewish community members that they are safe. Because the march organizers received many emails from Jewish members who are pro Palestinian asking if they would be safe from antisemitism at the march. But according to the purity politics happening online, Jewish dykes feelings of safety doesn’t matter and also aren’t “real”. And you can’t be truly anti Zionist and feel empathy for civilian lives lost on Oct 7. And if you do you’re actually pro-Zionism and anti Palestinian liberation and should be hunted down by Instagram activists who are currently posting “who are the Zionists infiltrating the organizers?” While trying to hunt down whoever wrote the statement for being a “secret Zionist”. A statement put together by anti Zionist volunteer organizers is hiding a secret pro genocide message because they dared to mention they care about the safety of the Jewish community members who will be marching in support of Palestinian liberation. What the fuck is happening. People are literally spreading the rumor that the march is anti Palestinian and Zionists “infiltrated” this organization. Because a badly worded statement calling for safety for all marchers was released and deleted before a longer one was released.

Anyways I’m still going to Dyke March because every year it’s an incredible experience of thousands of queer people from all over taking the streets to scream for human rights and queer rights around the globe. And this year the march will be focused on supporting those who are facing genocides. From Sudan to Palestine. From Myanmar to Somalia. We are Dykes against Genocide. We are not safe until we are all free from violence!