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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unwavering commitment to the fight against anti-Semitism.
when you definitely have a good understanding of zionism
When did antisemitism start exclusively referring to only ethnically Jewish people? Aren't Palestinians and Israeli Arabs also semitic? or did I miss the memo
I'm completely not sure, but it's long been that way. From what I remember, the unscientific "semitic race" was invented to distinguish white people from Jewish people in Europe.
But as far as Zionism goes, it is explicitly antisemitic in reference to ethnically Jewish people. Zionism is a project founded on the back of antisemitism and cannot exist without antisemitism, just as a shadow cannot exist without light. Here's an article that goes a bit into it: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/12/24/zionism-anti-semitism-and-colonialism