"dehumanizers control Israel’s government, which has a vested interest in being able to abuse Palestinians with impunity"
To a certain extent I do not agree entirely with this statement.
I myself would put it this way" dehumanizers in the current Israeli government have a vested interest in being able to defend at all costs those who ab…
"dehumanizers control Israel’s government, which has a vested interest in being able to abuse Palestinians with impunity"
To a certain extent I do not agree entirely with this statement.
I myself would put it this way" dehumanizers in the current Israeli government have a vested interest in being able to defend at all costs those who abuse or even kill Palestinian civilians'
As a child of Holocaust survivors and as a German speaker I can almost understand the knee jerk reaction of the German body politick to anything that smacks of anti-Semitism. However, as a Jew I reserve the right to criticize Israel as much as I damn please when I see that country going off the rails. So very much in the spirit of the same dynamic as Black Folk. A Black man or woman is free to use the N word but there is a Taboo and a price to pay lest a non person of color chooses to use the same expression.
In my mind it MUST be ultimately be Jews who continue to confront the increasingly horrific excesses of Eretz Yisrael toward the Palestinian people who also want peace.
I agree that Germans should be very careful about antisemitism. But when that care turns into abetting oppression, I don't think its a moral response to the legacy of the Holocaust
I totally agree with that premise and hope my comments were understood as such. There is such a fine line between atoning for the murderous actions of their ancestors..and yet understanding that some Israeli Jews could actually be acting on similar tendencies.
Clearly you're not a Hebrew speaker or a particularly knowledgeable Jew, or else you would know that "Eretz Yisrael" means "The Land of Israel," which isn't capable of doing anything to the Palestinian people or anyone else.
"dehumanizers control Israel’s government, which has a vested interest in being able to abuse Palestinians with impunity"
To a certain extent I do not agree entirely with this statement.
I myself would put it this way" dehumanizers in the current Israeli government have a vested interest in being able to defend at all costs those who abuse or even kill Palestinian civilians'
As a child of Holocaust survivors and as a German speaker I can almost understand the knee jerk reaction of the German body politick to anything that smacks of anti-Semitism. However, as a Jew I reserve the right to criticize Israel as much as I damn please when I see that country going off the rails. So very much in the spirit of the same dynamic as Black Folk. A Black man or woman is free to use the N word but there is a Taboo and a price to pay lest a non person of color chooses to use the same expression.
In my mind it MUST be ultimately be Jews who continue to confront the increasingly horrific excesses of Eretz Yisrael toward the Palestinian people who also want peace.
I agree that Germans should be very careful about antisemitism. But when that care turns into abetting oppression, I don't think its a moral response to the legacy of the Holocaust
I totally agree with that premise and hope my comments were understood as such. There is such a fine line between atoning for the murderous actions of their ancestors..and yet understanding that some Israeli Jews could actually be acting on similar tendencies.
Clearly you're not a Hebrew speaker or a particularly knowledgeable Jew, or else you would know that "Eretz Yisrael" means "The Land of Israel," which isn't capable of doing anything to the Palestinian people or anyone else.