#but with zionists and the jewish supremacy concept it's so painful

[gorillawithautism]

zionist antisemitism makes me want to kill myself 🫶

[chiseler]

THE TRUTH IS UGLY

What troubles me most about Democrats is the standing consciousness they're able to manifest, as their champions in government commit war crimes while undercutting rights and liberties at home. The flip side of this psychotic ability to muster mental equilibrium and tolerance comes out of hiding when a Republican wins the White House. Now begins the evangelical tent revival, speaking in tongues, bodies spasming on the tent's wet grass floor: "RUSSIA! CHILDREN SEPARATED FROM THEIR PARENTS! RACISM!"

When these fundamentalists do their best to outstrip Birther hysteria, just remember that their own political conscience is a resilient lawn, manicured to weed out the children of Gaza, the seven Muslim countries they voted to bomb and torture chambers they excused under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. With the help of Bernie Sanders, whose powers of equipoise are so great that he yawns at martyrdom, the Democratic Party fakes left then moves right. Sanders' record on Israel is, admittedly, no worse than you'll find elsewhere in Congress, a Zionist cheerleading squad through and through.   

And yet, under an umbrella he fancies “socialist,” Sanders accommodates Israel's illegal blockade, which, according to Sarah Roy of Harvard, is slow-poisoning 1,000,000 Palestinian children -- I prefer "sociopathic." If anyone asks why Gaza is unique, you can say this (paraphrasing Dr. Norman Finkelstein): Gaza is the only place on earth where people cannot flee disaster. Gaza is not Syria’s man-made inferno producing refugee flows; it is not the site of an earthquake, after which survivors can move elsewhere. Gaza’s children are systematically poisoned, their parents unable to help them. 

The world’s largest and oldest concentration camp brought to you by America and the Holy Land. Here, I ought to apologize in advance for my own (momentary, I promise) hysteria. It’s not easy watching peaceful protesters slaughtered at the perimeter of the cage financed with my tax dollars...

Something is wrong with us.

Our thin mental epiderm has managed to resist the true meaning of historical events like the Holocaust. It simply does not penetrate, the universal value of human beings, the folly of believing in "God's Chosen People" or "The Body Folk" as the particular case may dictate -- Zionism has a tough skin indeed, following a preordained plan that never acknowledges Hitler's Dream as its inspiration. God, Hitler -- is there any meaningful distinction in the presence of this monstrous ethno-state, experimenting on the bodies of 1,000,000 kids, shooting a thousand Gandhis with a Mengele look in its eye?

Israeli scholar Ilan Pappé has coined the term “incremental genocide” to describe the horror. My own suggestion is that we put Palestinian suffering – whether in Gaza, the West Bank or East Jerusalem – at the center of our program. Norman Finkelstein touts Bernie Sanders. We should, it seems to me, focus our attention elsewhere, and rediscover a tradition of legitimate socialism, one that never felt the need to tack “democratic” onto its agenda.

Socialism and democracy are identical concepts. 

Until Palestine is free, the same centralized system of mass incarceration here at home (buttressed by Bernie Sanders who signed the infamous “Crime Bill,” thereby linking arms with the Clintons) will triumph in a Palestinian genocide. Black Lives Matter espouses solidarity with the children of Gaza, as do I.  I’ll end by respectfully disagreeing one last time with Dr. Finkelstein, whose venom for BDS (the international movement to Boycott, Divest-from, and Sanction Israel) harms the cause to which he has dedicated himself for over 30 years.

No more compromises with the Dems. No more rationalizing our own tacit collusion. Opposing Israel’s human rights violations – both economically and politically – is up to us. Join BDS. Yes, the truth is ugly and painful -- who wants to acknowledge that our leading “experts” are wrong, that jurists, international human rights lawyers and trusted politicians have universally failed across the seemingly endless march of decades?  

Here are some numbers that cut through the rhetoric of Israeli talking points, which assert democracy and religious statehood – two distinct conditions that never mesh: 97% of Gaza’s water is contaminated; electricity in Gaza has been cut to 4 hours per day; Israeli courts convict 99.74% of Palestinian defendants; 85% of Israel’s “security fence” AKA “The Apartheid Wall” is on Palestinian land. These hideous truths are nothing more than a snapshot of Zionism’s practical ethic, its Jewish Supremacy model. Despite such grim data, I’ll offer one microscopic tittle of hope. 

It's no longer fashionable for young American Jews to support Israel.  How much of this alienation will translate into action and commitment against Zionism -- i.e. systematic racist attacks on Palestinians as a people, skulking under the rotten cloak of "self-defense" -- who can say?  Jewishness may yet liberate itself from the thugs who stole it. 

by Daniel Riccuito