Thread by @sarahschulman3

1. Lately I have been paying more attention to the groups of my fellow Jews who are describing themselves as persecuted because of the global objections (by other Jews and the rest of the world) to the brutal slaughter in Gaza.

2. These people include the 400 who signed a petition against Jonathan Glaser, to a Zionist right-wing journalist who spoke at the 92nd St Y, to an Atlantic writer to a student from 'Bears for Israel" claiming that people are yelling at her because they are anti-semitic.

3. What all these people have in common is a strange childishness- an inability to imagine that they could be part of anything wrong. A total inability to be self-critical.

4. Repeatedly each of these people claim that they are being "yelled out" and the only reason this could be happening is because they are Jewish. The only thing they can imagine is anti-semitism, because they cannot conceptualize themselves as doing anything justifying criticism

5. Well, I feel like saying to each of these people: "The reason you are being criticized, the reason people are yelling at you, the reason you are being protested, is because you are part of a killing machine, murdering tens of thousands of people, and that is the only reason."

6. I am just as Jewish looking and sounding as they are. I have two Jewish names, and a thick Jewish accent and the people who are yelling at them are not yelling at me. So, clearly it is really about politics and values.

7. Yes, I do get messages on social media constantly calling me a Nazi and a "Kapo" but that is because I opposed Jewish supremacy, and they can't stand that.

8. You are not being persecuted. What is happening is that you are supporting a genocide and history will understand this as a genocide, and your selfish, shallow refusal to see yourself realistically, - these crimes will follow you for the rest of your life.

9. You are lying to yourself. It is too bad that magazines and cultural institutions and companies and universities are supporting the distortions in your self-perceptions, but what they are doing is unethical and cruel and absolutely wrong.

10. And history will ask you about what you have said and done today. So, look in the mirror and see the pain you have created and justified and you will see yourself.