This made my day: the 10 Jews who chained themselves across the driveway of the Israeli consulate in L.A. as 50 others demonstrated. This is huge. We're with you brothers and sisters, here on the east coast--like a tree that stands beside the waaa--aa-ter, we will not be moved!
Here's the clan that organized it, International anti-Zionists. Here's pragprogress at dailykos inspired by the event--I love to hear other people's awakenings, the more rudimentary the better-- to define anti-Zionism: "myself, I see Zionism as a form of nationalism and I believe that the future has to be about the abolition of all forms of nationalism in favor of a global consciousness that says that all forms of injustice and human suffering are equally abhorrent regardless of where they occur and to whom they are directed." Note to wife: these are all antiZionists. Not posts.
One was 72 years old. Another, Lisa Adler, is a veteran of New York's historic org, JATO, Jews Against the Occupation (these are the folks who made me Jewish again!). She invokes the Nakba: "While the end of the siege on Gaza is our most immediate priority, this is only the latest chapter in Palestinians' 60 plus year experience of occupation and ethnic cleansing. Peace and justice in the region will only come when Palestinians have freedom and control their own destiny."
Can you make the headings in your blog posts in bold, or separate blog posts with a line or something? It's very hard to find out distinct postings simply because of colors/fonts used, and lack of any clean organization.
Phil's link doesn't seem to work. Here's a link to more info:
Jews Shut Down Israeli Consulate for 3 Hours
And then there's those gentlemen …
Thanks ptw – incredible.
the post nazis didnt want to offend the nazis, much like the post zionist dont want to offend the zionist.
there is too many family connections within the zionist community, therefore some of those who dont want to offend would prefer to use the sissified version of post zionist rather than the more moreally correct anti zionist.
unless of course those post zionist would be accepting of the post nazi movement in germany.
It's nice that Jews are protesting the horrible actions of the government in Tel Aviv that claims to be acting on their behalf, aying that the problem with Zionism is that it's "a form of nationalism" is just stupid. There's nothing wrong with nationalism per se; your country has its interests, my country has its interests, and of course each of us is more concerned with advancing our own causes than each other's. Anyone who wants a "global consciousness" is ultimately looking for a state of total entropy in which all nations are equal — which if you live in a rich country is basically asking to have most of your own wealth taken away from you to benefit all the poorer nations. Nationalism only becomes problematic when it leads to the abuse of the most basic rights of other nations, which it doesn't have to do, just as the individual desire for wealth doesn't necessarily leads to theft.
Craig, I agree, and I think Phil did too, when he wrote "… the more rudimentary the better".
A nationalism that is racially based is of course more problematic, as is one that is doing harm to others.
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"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."
—Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorisms
Like American die-hard sports team fans.