Thread by @jacremes

As an American Jew, I reject Israel for many reasons: I reject the current violence, perpetrated by Israeli Jewish citizens and the state, against Palestinians; I reject the current politics of Israel which seems to encourage and embolden Jewish fascism, which is repugnant to me

I reject my government (that is, the United States government) supporting ideologically and materially the violence and dispossession Israel--state and citizens--visits on Palestinians. As a diaspora Jew I reject the ideology that insists I do not belong where I am.

I reject a state that claims to speak and act for me, but to which I have no historical, familial, or political connection. I reject the theft of people's land and opportunities, especially when the thieves claim they act on my behalf.

But I also reject the State of Israel and zionism because I believe in diaspora. The heart of my Judaism is wandering, outsiderness, having been a slave and an exile and a refugee. Not only am I in the diaspora, I am a diasporist.

I claim the hagaddah's wise child as my lineage, who questions the law: I celebrate the Judaism of Jacob wrestling with the angel, of Moses asking, “Who am I that I should go?” My Judaism is anarchist and I reject the idea of an armed Jewish state.

Jewish safety will only ever come through solidarity with others, not through settler colonialism or policing or other forms of violence. It will come through building here--wherever "here" is for you--just, pluralist, egalitarian, safe societies.