Thread by @transjewtalian

Why the Jewish left has completely failed to meet the moment (a thread)

1. The reaction to October 7th

On October 7th as the Palestinian Resistance launched Operation Al Aqsa Flood-the high majority of the Jewish left did not see it as a beacon of hope for the Palestinian people quite literally breaking the fences to return onto land stolen from

them 75+ years ago, but instead centered “Jewish grief” and concern about “Israelis”, additionally many of them peddled countless lies about the operation that Zionists perpetuated that have since been disproven. It was beyond clear that any solidarity with the Palestinian

resistance that they claimed to have was policed to the kind of resistance they deemed appropriate and certainly didn’t extend to fighting the Zionist entity by any means necessary.

2. Lack of Solidarity

Which brings me to my next point-the Jewish left in its construction esp

over the past few decades has rlly developed completely separately from the Palestinian liberation movement, as many Palestinian activists have so brilliantly written, these organizations have this perspective that they do not want to prioritise solidarity with Palestinians

by any means necessary at the forefront of their existence, they do not want to prioritise being within the Palestinian solidarity movement moreover in believing that Jewish resistance deserves its own separate structure away from the movement they have completely divided

themselves from existing solidarity efforts.

3. Not actually being anti-zionist

As is beyond clear right now, so many organizations on the so called Jewish left are either not explicitly anti-zionist or on the rare chance they are, their anti zionism is tepid and meaningless

There is no explicit support to the Palestinian resistance, there is no commitment to actual land reform, there is no affirmation that Palestinians have the absolute right to have full autonomy on the settler question, it is an antizionism that still tries to legitimise an unjust

peace built on a colonial genocidal structure. Many of these organizations are also either still actively led by zionists or they have zionists still active within them and they have not and will not root them out, and frankly an organization that is not committed to rooting out

all zionists is a zionist organisation.

4. Decolonial Judaism

If Judaism has any future it must be actively decolonial, and anti-zionist Jews of Colour need to be on the forefront of what that looks like, that means that they also need to be on the forefront and be in a

position to actively lead Jewish antizionist activism, and the fact of the matter is any Jewish org on the left that is actively led by white Jews almost certainly has a serious racism problem that actively alienates Jews of colour, orgs cannot claim to stand in solidarity

with Palestinians if they are fundamentally unwilling to address the culture of racism within them

5. Fighting Jewish institutions

The fact of the matter is that Palestinians have been asking Jewish organizations for years to actually work to fight the institutions

in our communities that have been aiding and perpetuating the zionist settler colonial genocide for over a century, and broadly speaking these organizations have been unwilling to do that. the fact of the matter is every jewish org, charity, synagogue, school, institution that

flies an “israeli” flag, perpetuates zionist propaganda, and especially if they are funding and actively encouraging the zionist project and the active annihilation of the Palestinian people—they all must be protested, they all must be actively challenged at every turn until

they stop or they are abolished, for far too long Jews on the left have been unwilling to protest synagogues even when nearly all fly the flag of the Zionist entity, this needed to stop yesterday, this has been no more evident than today when in toronto there were protests

at a synagogue that was actively having sales to sell Palestinian stolen land and it was reported that no Jewish groups that claim to stand in solidarity with Palestinians actually joined in on the protest.

6. Grifters

This is obviously not unique to the Jewish left but certainly recently there have been extremely unprincipled ppl who are either writing books about their antizionist activism that they’re trying to sell, or raising money for self aggrandising ventures to europe

among other things and the fact of the matter is at a time when Palestinians are struggling to raise money both to rebuild their community as well as to seek refuge out of Gaza, white Jews esp Jews who have a history of collaboration or are predators themselves

should not be trying to raise money/actively profit for their own personal ventures off of so called activism