oatmeal#Palestine / Abolishing the Jewish-Arab Divide
[...] In this two-part series, Omri Ben Yehuda reflects on the hegemony of Ashkenazi Jews in Israeli society. Ben Yehuda contends that reckoning with this form of hegemony requires an analysis of the links between marginalized communities in Israel/Palestine, including the Palestinians, Mizrahi, and Ethiopian immigrants. While the conflict in Israel is often portrayed as one between Jews and Arabs, Ben Yehuda contends that it is better understood as a conflict between Ashkenazi [*] Jews and the Global South. Coming to terms with this dynamic requires a Left that is more emboldened in its protest of Israeli occupation and Ashkenazi hegemony in Israel/Palestine.
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/abolishing-the-jewish-arab-divide/
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/palestinian-protest-global-south/
[*] the generic Ashkenazi includes today both Eastern European and German Jews, which historically were separate communities in every respect
Omri (Hannah) Ben Yehuda (he/she) is a scholar of comparative Jewish literatures in EUME, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. She has published two books, 25 scientific articles and essays, and more than 80 essays and op-eds for the general public. Currently, she is working on a co-edited volume with Dotan HaLevi on Gaza as an Israeli heterotopia to be publish in 2022.
@israel
@palestine
#colonialism
#JewishOrientalism
#ArabJews
Abolishing the Jewish-Arab Divide (Part 1) | Contending Modernities
The “Palestinian cause/question” and the “Jewish question” are both expressions of European modernity, whether in the form of their currency of nationalism or genocidal practices, neither of which are acknowledged in Israel.