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May 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Here's part of Statement on Israel/Palestine by Scholars of Jewish Studies and Israel Studies: We also acknowledge that the Zionist movement, 'a diverse set of linked ethnonationalist ideologies, also was and is still shaped by settler colonial paradigms... 1/
...that saw land settlement as a virtuous means of solving political, economic, or cultural problems, as well as modern European Enlightenment discourses that assumed a hierarchy of civilizations... 2/
Dec 11, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Christians and some of their progressive intersectional inheritors prefer to see Judaism as a 'faith' (in their own image), denying Judaism of its distinctive status as a nation - it's undoubtedly another transactional move by the President - but it's the right one
and this status existed WAY before the State of Israel - though Israel is the current expression of Israel nationhood
