Last week NJ Senator Cory Booker used the Pittsburgh massacre, the most violent outbreak of anti-Semitism in US history, to justify taking a stance against Palestinian rights. He said that he would sponsor the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, a Senate bill that criminalizes some forms of support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS)– as if the demand for Palestinian rights is an expression of hatred for Jews.
Booker has not yet signed on to the bill, and meantime Jewish Voice for Peace has mounted a campaign against his doing so.
Do not support the Gag Bill
Senator Cory Booker announced this morning that he will support the Gag Bill (aka, the Israel anti-Boycott Act) because of the rise in anti-Semitism. Call and Tweet Senator Booker’s office to tell them loud and clear: Supporting Palestinian rights is not anti-Semitic….The ACLU says the bill violates the First Amendment (even as amended). Senators shouldn’t be working with Trump to silence advocates of justice for Palestinians. Push back against white supremacists, not human rights supporters. Call his office now, (202) 224-3224, and click below to Tweet directly at Senator Booker.
Whether it’s the Holocaust, the Paris Hypercacher shootings or the recent murders in Pittsburgh, no Jewish grief is too painful for Zionists to abuse it for their supremacist, colonialist and (war) criminal purposes.
Zionists are truly hateful and immoral people.
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If you ended at “abuse it….” I would say it’s a valid statement. But also, every anti-zionist group plus other assorted unaffiliated groups used the Pittsburgh shootings to validate their assorted points. at least until the 12 murders in the California square dance bar.
although I agree that Jews in the US are as safe as other groups of minorities that are subject of hate (eg: jihadi murderers= americans, Dylan roof nazis= blacks and Jews, the Dallas police killer=cops bad cops= black folks, Islamic terror = all americans, but usually, when it’s well known haters it usually Congress down to the same old: blacks and Jews, Jews and blacks. The stats are lately being muddied by lone crazed gunman on non ideological murder sprees.
. I don’t agree with the reasoning that israel makes american jews less safe or more safe. israel is now an established fact and nations who’s leadership promotes specific violence against individual or groups of jews must take that into consideration just like everything else that leaders or tyrants take into account (or don’t take into account) when engaging with the world in general. MW premise that Jews would be in a safe paradise were Jews deprived of sovereignty in israel is, to me, simply bogus.
“Why are you conflating multicultural USA circa 2018 with blood and soil Germany circa 1932 when the demographics and other relevant factors are radically different? This is Zionist ideology, not empirical reality.”
ok, let’s get sth straight about “blood and soil” vs muliculturalism, and some major differences between Europe and the US , esp with regard to the conception of “race”
First, the US was clearly founded in opposition to all notions of blood and soil, as a “nation of laws, not men”. Theoretically at least, any immigrant had as much right to live and thrive in an expanding country as any other immigrant or the indigenous population. Blood and soil types who defended their superior rights to their ancestral lands and opposed immigration were branded as “savages” in the Declaration of Independence, which is now a bit of an embarassment – not only because of a long history of racism and genocide of the ‘red Indians’, but also because it brands the new anti-immigration white supremacist blood and soil types screaming for a wall as ‘savages’ in violation of quintessential Americanism.
In Europe, white people are the indigenous people and as blood and soil as the original Native Americans. Europeans never thought of themselves as white but as Italians, Spaniards, Poles, French, German etc. Hence, a Spaniard considers him/herself white until lectured upon entering the US that the cross meeds to be made on the “Hispanic” box. A german or Italian will get away with identifying as “white” even though either may be of darker complexion as the blond and blue-eyed Spaniard, as the case may be.
The first problem is this: If you support indigenous land claims in the US, and lament the replacement of indigenous peoples, cultures, languages by non-indigenous immgrants from wherever else, you must logically also be in favor of blood and soil politics in Europe. Unless, that is, you think ‘red Indians’ have more rights than ‘white Europeans’. Both terms, incidently, are. generally perceived as”loaded’, also juxtaposing victims of racism against their destroyers, i.e. white supremacists.
White supremacy, however, makes no sense in the European context because they are/were all white. Racism as theories of superiority are intense and linked to tribal/national achievements such as size of population/territory, cultural and economic development etc. Hence, white supremacy in American history has always been affected by intrawhite racism. Benjamin Franklin famously considered Swedes and Germans as “swarthy” non-whites and declared the “red Indians” as racially superior to them and more equal to the master race of white anglo-saxons. Irish immigrants in the 19th c were called “inside-out blacks”, reflecting homegrown anglo-saxon attitudes against the Celts/Irish, and so on. Wasps only gradually admitted non-Wasps, be they white or not, to equal rights in US history, and it is idiotic to call white suprematists in the US Nazis or Neo-Nazis and tell them to “ go home”
They are home, and always have been, long before the real Nazis adopted Jim Crow laws and came up with the Nuremberg race laws, replacing “black” with “Jew”
I should add one more point: Just as the new blood and soil right in Europe loves Israel, so do some Native Americans. You would think they would all identify with the blood and soil Palestinians instead but no: it is the Jews who have SUCCESSFULLY reclaimed their homeland even after 2000 years, and revived their culture and language. Why identify with losers? here is one example
https://kehilanews.com/2017/02/23/native-american-couple-visits-israel-as-ambassadors-of-indigenous-peoples/
And there is, of course, the old theory of the Native American tribes being the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, which has been around from post-Columbian missionaries until today, moving from biblical to ethnographic to genetic models of evidence . This may explain the relative absence of anti-semitism in US history (compared to Europe, where Jews were generally identified as migrants and foreigners): Jews provided a link to the land as immigrants joining their long lost relatives: convert/assimilate both, and a messianic age of peace was sure to follow. At the same time, it adds acwhole new dimension to what David Stannard calls the biggest genocide of all times in his book “American Holocaust”. Could this, psychologically, explain the extraordinary position of Israel in US society, religion and politics? Can’t undo what happened to the Native Americans without “painful concessions” such as land and resources. So much easier to make it up to the Jews and restore their land at the expense of non-Americans.
Justice and Atonement?
Cory Booker is a fool if he thinks his pseudo contrived possibly zionistac stances make my Jewish grandma and I want to vote for him. His reflexive opportunism simply means he can’t be trusted on any issue, much less this issue. Gross. I don’t think he understands what he is doing either, etc. Grandma says no and says this is like saying If your stupid look over here…………………we’d like protection from Israel, not him to protect israel, We’re Jewish and don’t want to be forced to be idiots just cause were supposed to be. Doesn’t he have anything else to do for us, like pave my sidewalk? Is this cause he’s from New Jersey? Is he? Maybe that’s why, people there are……………………………………problematic. I know. I went to 11/10/85, the Half Step-Rider Playin thing.