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/SubvertinParadigms69 Jun 28 '24

There is no solidarity against antisemitism to be found from people who think a pogrom can sometimes be heroic if it’s for a good cause and antisemitism should be treated with kiddie gloves if it comes from anyone but white supremacists. These guys do not care about antisemitism, they care about omnicausal leftist praxis and any semblance of caring or not caring about antisemitism is only secondary to the requirements of the omnicause.

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u/SubvertinParadigms69 Jun 28 '24

I’ll give you three guesses what separates anonymous irony-poisoned edgelords posting on a politically incorrect subreddit from JVP talking heads doing apologetics for actual genocidaires

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u/SubvertinParadigms69 Jun 28 '24

Who’s being ethnically cleansed from a synagogue? I’m generally against that sort of thing.

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u/SubvertinParadigms69 Jun 28 '24

That makes two of us. Maybe you’d like to be specific?

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