Here is a brilliant angry rant by David Mandelzys, a Canadian Jew, against his parents for the Zionist message he was forcefed at his last seder. Some highlights:
Why, here in Canada, where we are a minority amongst a Christian
majority, do we advocate for and support a ‘Jewish State’ in the Middle
East, where the non-Jewish minority are treated as second class
citizens?…
We see a sick hierarchically organized Jewish community that is not
only serving as a smokescreen to allow the ongoing genocide of a
people; we also see the twisted irony that you, our parents who claim
we need Israel as a safeguard from anti-Semitism, are actually putting
us and the rest of World Jewry in danger…
the Israeli leadership and its North American lobby are so in bed with
the neo-cons that our community will be suffering consequences for
years….
From the disenchanted, once isolated Jews, a new community is rising…The kids
are coming home! All those ‘self-hating’ Jews who isolated themselves
from the community not because of a dislike for our culture, heritage,
or religion, but because they were told to leave after speaking their
mind on the oppression of the Palestinian people, are finding each
other, organizing, and coming back. [Emphasis mine]
Mandelzys ends a lot more hopeful than he begins. Good, so do I. The soul-searchers will be on stage at Yivo, and we're gonna be giving talks at AIPAC before long. I'm serious. There's going to be a healing. May take years though. Something's happening right now and you dont know what it is…. Thanks to Janet McMahon at WRMEA for hipping me to this.
