Part of the problem is that people have tried to understand the issue in the abstract when there are literally millions of Jews who have lived experience w/Left anti-Zionist antisemitism, from SWANA to the Europe and beyond, and who became refugees as a result. Ask them.
Aug 2, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
They’re referring to Jews *forced* into the Pale of Settlement. It wasn’t a settler colony, it was an exile colony. Of course the people who constantly tell Jews to “go back to where you came from” have an interest in obfuscating the violent reality of what we fled.
As a reminder, this is the site explicitly cited by the White Supremacist terrorist who committed the deadliest act of antisemitic violence (Pittsburgh Tree of Life) as a good source for “research” about Jews, Israel, and Zionism.
Jan 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
That I wont do, but will offer what anti-Zionism means in real life: in every society where antizionism has become widespread or adopted as policy, discrimination, persecution, dispossession, show trials, purges, executions, and mass violence against Jews ensued.
This was the case in the USSR which turned me and my family into stateless refugees, just as it was in Ethiopia, and across MENA. Antizionism is responsible for creating several of the largest Jewish refugee populations since WWII.
Jan 19, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
“People on the Zionist right” such as lifelong staunch Leftist/socialist and Tunisian-Jewish post-colonial theorist Albert Memmi who did not mince words when he called this narrative a “myth” and a “fraud.”
Memmi was an incisive analyst of the precariousness of Jewish life in Muslim lands: “If we leave out the crematoria and the murders committed in Russia from Kishinev to Stalin, the sum total of the Jewish victims of the Christian world is probably no greater than the total…
Jun 12, 2018 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
Nearly 1% of America’s population is behind bars, or 720 out of every 100K Americans - a greater rate than every other country on the planet.
By contrast, Russia (you know, the kleptocracy run by Putin) incarcerates around 518 per 100K population.
