Smadar #Lavie: "The refusal of elite #military reservists to attend to their periodic training […] is conceived as another Ashkenazi privilege. In general, being pro-Palestinian in #israel often requires contacts and funds to pay bail rather than rot in prison in case one is arrested during a solidarity visit to West Bank villages."

https://www.972mag.com/smadar-lavie-israeli-protests-mizrahi/ #antiracism #nationalism #Zionism #whiteSupremacy #authority #bureaucracy #activism #debt

The Mizrahi left’s dilemmas in the Israeli protest movement

Prof. Smadar Lavie discusses the possibilities and contradictions of the Ashkenazi-dominated protests against the government, and traces the efforts of a small cohort of Mizrahi activists to make their voices heard.

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Smadar #Lavie: #israel #Mizrahi left "#NGOs are budget dependent. If there are donations, they usually come from progressive Zionist donor organizations of the American-Jewish diaspora, and NGOs need to adapt their activism so that they don’t offend the donors. The image diaspora Jews have of Israel is that all Jews are equal in the homeland of the Jews."

https://www.972mag.com/smadar-lavie-israeli-protests-mizrahi/ #nationalism #whiteSupremacy #Jewishness #Judaism #liberalism #family #motherhood #marriage #theocracy #anthropology

The Mizrahi left’s dilemmas in the Israeli protest movement

Prof. Smadar Lavie discusses the possibilities and contradictions of the Ashkenazi-dominated protests against the government, and traces the efforts of a small cohort of Mizrahi activists to make their voices heard.

+972 Magazine

His family is originally from Massachusetts:
“Here, the geographical division is ethnic-based: we’ve had ghetto communities since the founding of the country. We are the only country in the world where a town can decide who to admit and who not to. They exclude not only Palestinians, but also the poor, or single mothers.”
https://global.ilmanifesto.it/israel-is-a-fragmented-society-that-no-longer-knows-itself/ @israel

#israel #israelPalestine #israelApartheid #JewishState #segregation #JewishSupremacy #militias #brutalization #TelAviv #liberalism #zionism

Israel is a fragmented society that no longer knows itself - Il manifesto global

“Do you know who built Tel Aviv? The Gazawi workers.” Gadi Algazi, an Israeli historian, is sitting at a coffee shop table; behind him, the construction sites for new skyscrapers … Continued

Il manifesto global
אני חייבת לעשות איתכם את השיחה הזו | פוליטיקלי קוראת

אנשי שמאל רבים, עם המלחמה שהחלה בטבח המזעזע בדרום, חווים מהשמאל הפרוגרסיבי בעולם שדוחה את הצער הישראלי, את אותן הרגשות שחוויתי מהשמאל הישראלי.

פוליטיקלי קוראת

"Peace cannot come from inside Israel because the vast majority of Israelis (and Zionists around the world) know a parallel history, one that erases the Nakba, apartheid, and a litany of injustices against Palestinians."

Writes @raph Mimoun: https://www.onesmalldetail.blog/can-peace-come-from-within-israel/

#citizenship #coloniality #israel #israelPalestine #israelApartheid #JewishState #segregation #JewishSupremacy #TelAviv #liberals #zionism #progressists #entitlement #Zionists

Can peace come from within Israel?

When Israel waged war on Gaza in 2021, I wrote that a just peace could not come from inside Israel. Since then, some have called my take arrogant and condescending toward the Israeli left. So I want to explain, because I feel very connected to Israel's anti-occupation left and I

One Small Detail

"Everyone compares Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, and indeed there are many similarities, but no one compares the Democrats in the United States to the center-left in @israel."

"In the United States and in Israel, the liberals evoke sympathy, and are terrifyingly hollow.
"In the United States and in Israel liberals supposedly oppose the war in Gaza, and their opposition is a story of ideological emptiness and moral failure, hypocrisy, and sanctimony."

"Harris lost not only on account of Gaza, but the Democratic administration's conduct on the war certainly didn't help her at the polls."

"Voters do not like trickery and pretense."

Gideon Levy: https://archive.is/Kd9NB#selection-543.0-543.85

Thanks to @mkpetkova @junesim63 @nat

#citizenship #coloniality #israel #israelPalestine #israelApartheid #JewishState #segregation #JewishSupremacy #TelAviv #liberals #zionism #progressists #entitlement #Zionists #GideonLevy #IsraelWars #israeliWars #warOnPalestine #warOnLebanon #foreignPolicy #DemocraticParty #genocideJoe #KamalaHarris #turnout #electionTurnout

"The lies and culture that made Israeli society support genocide"

Watch a conversation with Orly Noy, a political activist, and a translator of Farsi poetry and prose. She is the chair of B’Tselem’s executive board and an activist with the Balad political party.

https://youtu.be/Li0zmOhAhhw

#JewishSupremacy #citizenship #coloniality #israel #israelPalestine #israelApartheid #JewishState #segregation #TelAviv #zionism #entitlement #Zionists #IsraelWars #israeliWars #warOnPalestine #ongoingGenocide #ongoingNakba #genocide #genocideSupport #OrlyNoy

The lies and culture that made Israeli society support genocide | Orly Noy (B'Tselem) | UNAPOLOGETIC

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