by Joseph Glatzer for Mondoweiss
I'm writing my Senior Research Paper (at Cal State Northridge) on the Palestinian Right of Return, and my professor suggested I examine the precedents of compensation and repatriation set by the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.
I started investigating the Claims Conference stuff, and I decided to delve deeper into the actual stories. The more I read the more I was horrified.
Horrified that humanity could watch this and do nothing. Horrified by the parallels between Nazi treatment of Jews and Israeli treatment of Palestinians.
And furious at the exploitation of these innocent victims to justify dehumanizing and oppressing other people.
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"The tables turned.
ReplyDeleteJews are now the ones segregating "the other" into ghettoes, imprisoning them inside huge concrete walls.
Jews are now the ones who capture land through aggressive war.
Jews are now the ones who lavish praise on the ghetto elite (Palestinian Authority and their Security Forces).
Jews are now the ones racially classifying “the other” by law.
Jews are now the ones banning intermarriage to maintain the “purity” of their “race”.
Jews are now the ones forcing "the other" to carry identifying symbols.
Jews are now the ones inciting pogroms on "the other".
Jews are now the ones enacting specific laws governing social activities with "the other".
Jews are now the ones expropriating "the other's" land and property.
Jews are now the ones banning books from "the other's" schools.
Jews are now the ones trying to destroy another peoples' way of life.
This is the tragedy of Zionism."
I kind of have a problem with this type of rhetoric, and when I thought about it, I realized that it looks as Jewish people as one unitary mass, which, incidently, is one of the attributes of Zionism, as a Jewish person, I find creepy-and that's before we factor in the Palestinians. And if you accept this premise, you are accepting one of the main premises of Zionism,
ReplyDeleteAlso, for quite some time, I've been suffering from Holocaust fatigue. I say let the victims rest in peace. I know it is tempting to debate the Holocaust when Zionists bring it up, especially when there are so many striking similarities between the way Jews were treated by the Nazia and the way Palestinians are treated by Zionists, but how many history lessons about the Holocaust can one man endure? My position is this: Once a non-racist democratic state is established in the whole country, I would support including a unit on Holocaust history in the school curriculum-as well as one on the Nakba.