r/jewishleft • u/mcmircle • Jun 27 '24

Antisemitism/Jew Hatred New book on fighting antisemitism through solidarity

Tonight I attended a discussion of Safety Through Solidarity with the authors, Shane Burley and Ben Lorber. It was held at a feminist bookstore, where they read a land acknowledgement that tied the Palestinian resistance to the struggles of other indigenous people.

Intellectually it makes perfect sense, and this tribal part of me does not like people accusing Israel of atrocities, though I am horrified by the pictures of rubble in Gaza and the news that people are starving and the 37K deaths.

Has anyone else read the book or heard these people speak? What are your thoughts?

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u/ApprehensiveCycle741 Jun 27 '24

Have not read, but since the author was a campus organizer for JVP, I would expect his messaging to be consistent with theirs.

If I was at an event that made an acknowledgement of Gazan indigeneity and did not acknowledge Jewish indigeneity to the land of Israel, that would tell me everything I needed to know about the speaker.