Zionism Can Be Mean

It is the week before Spring Break over here at AU, which means it was the week when a bunch of assignments were due. It has also sort of been Jew week in the land of Christa's class readings and discussions.

In my Islamic Societies and The Modern World and Religion and Peacebuilding classes, we've taken a look at the Israel-Palestine conflict. So before I get into all that, let's just start putting all the anti-Semitic comments out there, just so there's no ambiguity. Jews run the world, Jews have all the money, and they have bi-weekly global meetings on how best to destroy Islam. I think that covers it.

Now is where I say "ha ha" and "jk" in case you couldn't tell I wasn't being serious. Saying that any minority group has a set agenda and is able to control the world is just ridiculous. Unless we're talking about Disney, yeah, those guys are coming for us all.

Misinformation is greatest threat to Jews, secular and religious alike. When I criticize the state of Israel or any pro-Israel lobby here in the US, I rarely, if ever, consider those critical masses to be Jews. I think of them as Zionists, which has no Jewish pre-requisite, it just means people who support the state of Israel as a Jewish home state, and frequently support it at the expense of others. In the US, if we were to do a survey, I think we'd find the majority of Zionists are actually evangelical Christians.

I don't care if you ascribe to the Jewish religion, the Christian religion, or the psychotic bastard religion that imposes a different historical narrative on indigenous populations, a nation state with an exclusivist identity that has constructed itself on top of the local traditions and customs of another society is wrong. But its too late to go back and change what happened at the dawn of the 20th century. We have to figure out how we can make it right after so much time has passed and so much blood has been shed.

Somehow, I think we need to find a way to make a non-exclusivist Israel acceptable to everyone, even if a two state solution is realized. There are many Arabs and Muslims in Israel who will not be happy to be shipped over to Palestine just because they are Arab or Muslim. They consider Israel their home too. I don't know how we can create such a definition of Israel, but it still needs to be done and needs to be done soon.

And that concludes my thoughts from Jew week.