Not in my name
Me and my mom just went at it, yelling and screaming like we haven't done since I was in high school. Except this time it wasnt about staying out too late or drugs or running my mouth off to teachers. It was about the current situation in the middle east which finds Israel making rubble out of Lebanon and displacing hundreds of thousands not to mention murdering hundreds others.
My mom is a zionist. I grew up in a zionist household, went to a zionist hebrew school, and was innundated with praise for israel with no other option since I was four. I didnt even give a second thought to the existence of Israel really until a couple of years ago when I learned the word occupation. I never knew it in that context before. The last two years my politics have completely changed, especially in the last couple of months. I cannot stand for the ignorance, racism, and zionist bullshit that permeates through the minds of many Jews I know. It must however, also be remembered that there are not tons and tons of Jews fighting against the occupation and for social justice. Knowing that it is my people consciously murdering and destroying is one thing. Witnessing my mother and others honestly defend Israel's right to "self-defend," is another. It is an authentic twilight zone. Being anti-israel does not mean you are anti-semitic or a self-hating Jew, contrary to very real ideologies expressed by many white, conservative, zionist jews. The Jews deserve their own state I am reminded by my mother, and I say to her, not in my name, can they destroy people to maintain it. I will be at that rally tomorrow hopefully with a little less emotion then I had tonight. Perhaps with a little more sense, but certainly with the will to fight against the superpower that is committing murder in my name.
My mom is a zionist. I grew up in a zionist household, went to a zionist hebrew school, and was innundated with praise for israel with no other option since I was four. I didnt even give a second thought to the existence of Israel really until a couple of years ago when I learned the word occupation. I never knew it in that context before. The last two years my politics have completely changed, especially in the last couple of months. I cannot stand for the ignorance, racism, and zionist bullshit that permeates through the minds of many Jews I know. It must however, also be remembered that there are not tons and tons of Jews fighting against the occupation and for social justice. Knowing that it is my people consciously murdering and destroying is one thing. Witnessing my mother and others honestly defend Israel's right to "self-defend," is another. It is an authentic twilight zone. Being anti-israel does not mean you are anti-semitic or a self-hating Jew, contrary to very real ideologies expressed by many white, conservative, zionist jews. The Jews deserve their own state I am reminded by my mother, and I say to her, not in my name, can they destroy people to maintain it. I will be at that rally tomorrow hopefully with a little less emotion then I had tonight. Perhaps with a little more sense, but certainly with the will to fight against the superpower that is committing murder in my name.