Wake up babe, Zizek's take on Israel/Palestine just dropped
Wake up babe, Zizek's take on Israel/Palestine just dropped
Slavoj Žižek argues that the solution to a conflict dominated by fundamentalists depends on combining two extremes.
It's dogshit
Hamas and Israeli hardliners are two sides of the same coin. The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence. There can be no compromise between Palestinian and Israeli extremists, who must be combatted with a full-throated defense of Palestinian rights that goes hand-in-hand with an unwavering commitment to the fight against anti-Semitism.
Utopian as this may sound, the two struggles are of a piece. We can and should unconditionally support Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorist attacks. But we also must unconditionally sympathize with the truly desperate and hopeless conditions faced by Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories. Those who think there is a “contradiction” in this position are the ones who are effectively blocking a solution.
We can and should unconditionally defend US slave owners' property rights. But we also must unconditionally sympathize with the truly desperate and hopeless conditions faced by enslaved people.
We can and should unconditionally support Nazi Germany's right to rid itself of undesirables. But we also must unconditionally sympathize with the truly desperate and hopeless conditions faced by those placed in concentration camps.
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your just kicking out essentially all the Jews based on some other criteria.
some other criteria.
Yeah choosing to identify with and support a fascist settler colonial project currently committing genocide is just meaningless, "some other criteria".
Really showing how little you care about how evil isntreal is.
Being a fascist isnt good, supporting genocide is not good. Just because you're Jewish doesn't somehow make it ok.
includes almost all the Jews in the region
"almost all Jews in the region" are settler colonial imports living on land that is not theirs, why do you want to ignore this fact?
almost all Jews in the region" are settler colonial imports living on land that is not theirs, why do you want to ignore this fact?
No one is ignoring this fact. I've even cited demographic numbers in this very conversation with you.
Look if you want to say that essentially all the Jews of Israel need to be expelled, including indigenous ones, go for it, but don't act all surprised when you get accused of advocating for ethnic cleansing, cause ya are when you say things with that effect, even if you think it's justified. If Vietnam had eradicated or expelled the Hmong like many of them feared (enough to flee) for allying with the US, that still would have been ethnic cleansing. Happily, the communists saw no reason to engage in that.
Israel can stops it's genocide, enact a right of return, and transition to a single state Palestine and Israeli under a secular framework with protections for minorities without expelling essentially all it's Jews, and to argue otherwise is to buy into Zionist talking points.
You can't even respond to:
"Yeah choosing to identify with and support a fascist settler colonial project currently committing genocide is just meaningless, "some other criteria"."
lol. lmao again. Truly showing how much you have failed to internalize what "genocide" means when its against brown people. Gormless cracker with shit for brains.
Look if you want to say that essentially all the Jews of Israel need to be expelled, including indigenous ones, go for it
I said "all israelis" not "all the jews of israel" you stupid fuck. Identifying with a fascist settler colonial project should indeed have repercussions, jewish or not. You haven't seemed to grasp how fucking evil isntreal is, its just as bad as nazi germany and identifying with it in this day and age should be addressed in the same manner.
Israel can stops it's genocide, enact a right of return, and transition to a single state Palestine and Israeli under a secular framework with protections for minorities without expelling essentially all it's Jews
There is no "and Israeli" and "secular framework", Palestine is a Sunni Muslim country and whether they secularize or not is up to them. A genocidal settler colonial project has no right to continue existing in any form whatsoever. You're basically doing "muh TINA" soft advocacy for the continued existence of a settler colonial project.
to argue otherwise is to buy into Zionist talking points.
"akshually if you think that the settler soyciety shouldn't set the terms and be in control of its own dissolution without its population being forced to give back their homes you're akshually supporting Zionism"
You're a liberal.
If Vietnam had eradicated or expelled the Hmong like many of them feared (enough to flee) for allying with the US, that still would have been ethnic cleansing. Happily, the communists saw no reason to engage in that.
False analogy btw. The genocide that isntreal and the west is doing is more comparable to what the nazis did to eastern europe. And yes, nazi collaborators were fucking shot when the invading force was expelled.
I said "all israelis" not "all the jews of israel" you stupid fuck.
The jews of Israel are a subset of all Israelis how are you still struggling with this basic concept. And you darned sure don't intend to remove the Israeli bedouin population.
You also ran your mouth about Gazan Jews and ignored my follow ups about them when it became clear such a thing doesn't exist in any appreciable numbers, displaying how much you actually know about the subject.
The genocide that isntreal and the west is doing is more comparable to what the nazis did to eastern europe.
If the Don cossocks has been expelled or liquidated in their entirety due to some of them collaborating with the Nazis, that too would be ethnic cleansing, even though Nazis were a fundamentally fascist and genocidal project. The removal of native ethnic Germans from eastern and central Europe following WW2? Ethnic cleansing.
This isn't hard stuff. You don't get to remove entire groups of people for state crimes against humanity without carefully and specifically evaluating complicity in those crimes. Otherwise you're ethnic cleansing.
The jews of Israel are a subset of all Israelis how are you still struggling with this basic concept.
Israelis are settler colonial demons that need to be kicked out, and being jewish doesnt mean you can occupy stolen land and aid in ethnic cleansing without consequence, how are you still struggling with these basic concepts?
when it became clear such a thing doesn't exist in any appreciable numbers
Ok so its "non appreciable numbers" when the oppressed population has Jews lmao you bloodthirsty racist fuck.
Don cossocks has been expelled or liquidated in their entirety due to some of them collaborating with the Nazis,
Here's the thing, all Isntreali citizens are fascist collaborators in genocide like how all Nazis were fascists for identifying with a genocidal state. Isntreal is a fundamentally fascist state, isntreali is not an ethnicity just like how nazi isnt. Saying otherwise is a lie constructed by the liberal mainstream media.
The Don Cumsocks on the other hand are an ethnic group that existed from before the Nazis, so expelling them all would be, in fact, ethnic cleansing, because "Don Cossack" is an ethnicity and does not imply that all of them are fascists.
AS SUCH: Nobody is saying that all Jews should be kicked out of the region because some of them are isntreali, the line is that all self-identifying israelis should be kicked out and/or face some sort of justice because they are all fascist settler colonists, Jewish or not. There is no excuse for genocide.
Get that through your empty white brainpan will you? Dumb fucking cracker. Its almost like you're paid not to understand the words you see on your screen.
And you darned sure don't intend to remove the Israeli bedouin population.
When have I given any indication that I thought that? JFL that is such an absurd thing to say, grasping at 100 straws for a gotcha.
Israelis are settler colonial demons that need to be kicked out
Some of them; as we've gone round and round, then are indigenous jews, bedouin, christains, druze, and circassians who are
- All Israeli citizens, and largely 'identify as Israeli' in addition to their ethnic affiliation.
- Not settler colonial demons that need to be kicked out.
If we can agree on that, (and thus on the ill-advisedness of shouting 'ALL ISRAELI'S MUST GO"), I think we can wrap up here.
Here's the thing, all Isntreali citizens are fascist collaborators in genocide like how all Nazis were fascists for identifying with a genocidal state.
Absolute nonsense. Israeli citizenship is conferred automatically by birth in many cases, and someone acknowledging that reality is not remotely analogous to taking the steps to affirmatively join a genocidal political party. Thousands of Israeli citizens are anti-zionist activists.
Nobody is saying that all Jews should be kicked out of the region because some of them are isntreali,
They're all Israeli. I ask again; what's the population of Gazan Jews or even non-settlement Jews in the West Bank? If you're kicking out all Israeli's you're kicking out all the jews (or, as is what happening in your case, using some absolutely galaxy-brained definition of 'Israeli' that changes on the fly to accommodate your argument.)
If we can agree on that, (and thus on the ill-advisedness of shouting 'ALL ISRAELI'S MUST GO"), I think we can wrap up here.
Ok see this is it, you don't seem to understand what "isntreali" means. The entire so called "country" of isntreal is built on stolen land and mass killings.
It is a genocidal settler colonial project. Anyone who willingly identifies with it is a fucking scumbag, just like how anyone who identifies as a nazi should be punched at the very least. We've only gone "round and round" because the true nature of isntreal's existence is the fucking point you fail to fucking address.
That Isntreal itself is a fascist genocidal project of pure, fucking, evil. Before anything else. It is not a real country, nor a real ethnicity. It doesn't even have a proper unifying culture beyond genocide.
Therefore, this is just like being a bad faith pedant whenever someone says "death to america" or "plz Xi nuke the shit out of america to kill them all" by saying: "but askhaullyalslajsldalyy there are still native indigenous people there who identify as americans so thats muh ethnic cleansing", completely failing to realize that when you refer to a fascist settler colonial state by name you are referring to the settler population first and foremost. Its already baked into the name itself, because the name refers to the project of utter violence.
"b-b-but muh mass media definition!"
Do you fucking trust the mass media for anything? This is fucking hexbear.net, I don't need to be PC about this shit because I can make the assumption that we are all operating off a common skepticism of mainstream narratives and an understanding of what is truly going on. Because the truth is that Israel isnt real beyond a settler colonial project of utter genocide against Palestine.
And IF individuals and political groups from the populations you listed are patriotic isntreali citizens, then they also need to face some sort of justice like how the fucking Nazi collaborators did and still would if the world was a better place.
All in all this is just an issue of you being a braindead cracker who watches too much CNN and accidentally internalized their worldview, specifically about isntreal ackshually being real.
Israeli citizenship is conferred automatically by birth in many cases, and someone acknowledging that reality is not remotely analogous to taking the steps to affirmatively join a genocidal political party. Thousands of Israeli citizens are anti-zionist activists.
"Absolute nonsense. Nazi citizenship is conferred automatically by birth in many cases, and someone acknowledging that reality is not remotely analogous to taking the steps to affirmatively join a genocidal political party." If you know what your "country" did and still don't renounce your citizenship then that doesn't make you less of a monster. I don't care if they virtue signal about not being Zionists, the very fact that they self-identify as "Isntreali" is a fucking crime against humanity. There are populations of Jews living in occupied Palestine (isntreal) who dont even acknowledge isntreal as their motherland and instead identify as Palestinian.
If you're kicking out all Israeli's you're kicking out all the jews
You fail to acknowledge that being jewish is no excuse for identifying with a settler colonial death machine.
the truth is that Israel isnt real
There's the materialism we know and love.
Look if you had just said you'd like for me to join you in a ontological flight of fancy where words lose all common language meaning and become pliable as rubber I could have politely declined and we could have saved all this trouble.
Down here, Israel is a materially-extant and internationally-recognized state that is currently genociding the Palestinian people, and 'Israeli' refers to a citizen of Israel.
I should point out, by way of humorist aside, that I'm actually a neo-pragmatist non-realist, so in a very real sense the 'reality' of any given concept is not a question I'm interested in.
I can tell, I could hear you wanking all the way from america.
Only on Saturday mon frère.
common language meaning
Appeal to common sense btw. Just because most westerners believe propaganda doesn't mean reality is automatically rewritten.
Down here, Israel materially-extant and internationally-recognized nation that is currently genociding the Palestinian people, and 'Israeli' refers to a citizen of Israel.
Yeah down here in your ass where you have so thoroughly shoved your head, you fucking stupid condescending white piece of rotten elephant shit. You cant appeal to materialism and whatever narrative the state department has been shitting out for 80 years to manufacture consent for a genocide at the same time. Its fucking ridiculous.
The material reality on the fucking ground is that Isntreal is a settler colonial project of mass murder and genocide. Its entire existence would crumble if not for foreign direct investment and "lethal aid", how the hell can you call that a materially-extent "nation". Yes it is something, but it is not a nation with a culture beyond settler colonialism and the ethnic cleansing that follows. You're a idiot who constantly fails to acknowledge this because you have a liberal chauvinist worldview.
that is currently genociding the Palestinian people, and 'Israeli' refers to a citizen of Israel.
Isntreal in itself *is the genocide. How can you not fucking understand this?? It has no purpose in this world other than to enact a project of ethnic cleansing and be the west's regional puppet, absolutely fucking none.
Appeal to common sense btw. Just because most westerners believe propaganda doesn't mean reality is automatically rewritten.
Nope, it's alluding to the more formalized notion of plain meaning rule , which I take, in conjunction with the cooperative principle of communication . You're using essentially bespoke definitions of 'Israeli' and getting angry that anyone might read the plain meaning of 'Israeli' instead.
how the hell can you call that a materially extent nation.
The plain meaning of 'state', again. Which is what I should have said originally, but I'll go back and fix that.
Isntreal in itself *is the genocide.
The genocide is the genocide, as in, the set of actions by the Israeli government that result in the expulsion, privation, immiseration and death of the local Palestinian population.
alluding to the more formalized notion of plain meaning rule
So you're in law school then, explains a lot. We aren't discussing Statutes though so I'm sorry but this is meaningless drivel pulled from your educational background to win an argument where you deny the origin of a genocide. You referred to a "commonsense" liberal understanding of the word "isntreal", not its statutory definition in the american legal system you stupid libshit.
The plain meaning of 'state', again.
"There is no academic consensus on the definition of the state."
The genocide is the genocide, as in, the set of actions by the Israeli government that result in the expulsion, privation, immiseration and death of the local Palestinian population.
LMFAOOOOO holy fucking shit you're actually trying to speak legalese in this discussion, bloody hilarious.
I'm not sure whether they taught you this in law school but Isntreal was created by the west to be a settler colonial puppet state to assert power in the region and enact a manifest destiny type genocide against Palestinians. It isn't that it was innocently created and then somehow turned evil, its very nature, an "original sin" if you like, is to be a racist project of mass murder. To place it on Palestinian land without consent of the indigenous population such that it could steal land and expand was indeed a genocidal act. Its existence necessitates stolen land and therefore is fundamentally genocidal.
You're a funny man son, I hope you dont become a corrupt lawyer in the future.