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'Zionism Is Terrible For Jews, Too": This Jewish Arab Israeli Must Be Heard w/ Alon Mizrahi
This is a voice you need to hear. Alon Mizrahi is a Mizrahi Israeli - that is, his heritage is Arab, with his mother having moved from Morocco. He tells me why he thinks Israel is white supremacist, why he rejected Zionism, why he thinks Zionism is bad for Jews - and why he thinks Israel is heading for a disastrous future.
This is the article Alon Mizrahi wrote, explaining how deeply rooted Zionism is in Israel. How it constricts critical thinking, how it shapes everything into a fight for survival. How isolationism led to lethal paranoia on a country wide scale.
Maybe it’s time we started talking about how terrible Zionism is for Jews, too
https://easternoak.co/maybe-its-time-we-started-talking-about-how-terrible-zionism-is-for-jews-too/
"Side note: when this is all over, and the psychological mechanisms that sustained Zionism inside Israel are revealed, the world is going to be in genuine awe of Israel’s brainwashing prowess."
"I was taught only Jewish suffering was worthy of recognition simply because a legitimately sad Arab was never introduced to me. And in the cases I was exposed to the suffering of Palestinians, for instance families next to their bulldozed homes, it was always, always juxtaposed and interlaced with their supposed, incorrigible, terrorist actions, thoughts and emotions."
"I was supposed to gloat at their just suffering, just as an Arab kid was to see it as a warning."
"having tied both the discussion about Israel’s actions to the image of Jews, and Israel’s fate to a continued success in dehumanizing Palestinians, the Zionist project has reached a point of guaranteed failures on multiple fronts. First, despite all efforts to the contrary, Israel’s actions will be heavily discussed. Second, the Palestinians will be rehumanized. Third, the image of Jews will be tainted but not in an antisemitic way, but simply because of the atrocities we so stupidly, unnecessarily, committed in our Zionist phase."
Monomania
"Thanks to Zionism, all the immense, multilayered richness of Jewish life and consciousness, has been diminished to a single talking point."
"These Zionist days, Jewish identity revolves around but one issue. If you support everything Israel, and in particular its latest wild military undertaking, you’re a good Jew. If you have polite reservations, especially if you’re rich, you’re a tolerable Jew. And if you oppose anything Israel, especially its latest military onslaught, then you’re a bad, bad Jew, A self-hating Jew."
"Verbally, literally, the Zionist state has overtaken, swallowed and become the Jewish self. Which is never a good thing for a political establishment, or a self."
A closed loop of fear and hate
The Zionist model does not allow for course correction. Spoiled by too much American support, Zionism lives in a fantasy world in which it can do what it wants to anyone, forever, with impunity.
Whereas other groups, upon being confronted by great violence or resistance, were forced to update their vision, Zionism never had to internalize a strategic defeat. Every time it hit a wall, America supplied it with a bigger bulldozer, thus relieving Israel of a duty all life-loving entities must uphold, namely to reconsider its actions based on the environment’s reaction to them.
Unchecked, Zionism’s victim-aggressor mentality has become an exclusive peephole through which to look at everything. Every challenge is hatred that must be overcome forcefully. Every reservation testifies to hidden antisemitism. Every Palestinian child is a potential terrorist. Every peace activist a secret Nazi. Every disaster is proof that we must use more force. Every success is the success of our force.
Because it is so binary, so rigid and so disconnected from authentic emotions, Zionism forces its believers to choose force over peace, fantasy over reality, and an unending quest for total, cathartic vindication, over simply living.
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Palestinians are, and forever will be, the foremost victims of Zionism. But for too long we have neglected to look at the terrible price Jews have been paying for it in terms of their humanity, their morality, their freedom and creativity and, tragicomically, their sense of place and belonging among our brothers and sisters of all races and places, including, yes, Palestine.
Sadly he doesn't see a way out and expects Israel to do even more crazy things before imploding.
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