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ChaiaEran
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Yes! It's possible! But it's not automatic.

(This is the second version of this post. See the note at the bottom for why.)

This post is by no means comprehensive, and its primary focus is directed at white western leftists. Most Palestinians are, in fact, very careful to avoid antisemitism in the first place, but even if they weren't, it's not my place to try and tell them how to order their liberation movement.

So why make this post? Because everywhere you have people genuinely and rightly advocating for Palestinian liberation, you'll also have neo-Nazis trying to spread antisemitic rhetoric under the guise of anti-Zionism, and the first rule of social media is that unless you know for a fact who it is who's speaking, there's no way to tell the difference between an online leftist, and a neo-Nazi sockpuppet pretending to be an online leftist. Inoculating your movement against antisemitism will help protect you from accidentally becoming a Nazi bar.


  1. Don't invoke classic antisemitic tropes like dual loyalty, or tell Jewish Israelis to "go back where they came from". This one should be obvious, but a lot of people like to pretend like Jews aren't really loyal to any given country, or that all Israelis are dual citizens of other places. Most Jewish Israelis do not have a second passport, are not eligible for a second passport, and cannot return to wherever they or their grandparents came to Palestine from. Litvak Israelis can't return to Lithuania, their communities were destroyed by the Nazis and then paved over and replaced by the Soviets. Iraqi Israelis can't return to Iraq, they were expelled. American Israelis only make up about 5% of the Israeli population. Jews have always been viewed as "living on other people's land", the difference in Palestine is that Jews are the oppressor, rather than the oppressed.
  2. Don't whitewash the Jewish population in Israel. This one is specifically in response to the people who try to cast all Jews as "wealthy Brooklynites" or "white Europeans." Most Jewish Israelis are in fact Mizrahim who were expelled from other countries in the SWANA region, who wrongly blamed their local Jewish populations for the Nakba. There is an internal racial dynamic within Israel where Ashkenazim hold hegemony, and that is worth critiquing in concert with Israeli oppression of Palestinians, but just saying "Jews are white Europeans" is antisemitic and flatly wrongheaded. Jews are an ethnoreligious group whose members come from all racial backgrounds.
  3. Be specific and precise in where your principled anti-Zionism is coming from. To say that "the State of Israel is an openly settler-colonialist venture that has displaced millions of Palestinians and continues to engage in ethnic cleansing and genocide" is specific and precise, and speaks to the moral urgency which anti-Zionism carries. To say that "the Zionists are committing blood sacrifice"... do you understand the difference between those two statements? And why the second one might sound like when you say "Zionists", what you really mean is "Jews"?
  4. Avoid double standards. If you do, in fact, genuinely believe that all white people should leave the Americas and return to Europe, then by all means, push for all Jews to leave Palestine. But if you don't hold that same belief for white people, who have no non-colonial history in the Americas, then it's hypocritical to demand that all Jews leave Palestine, a place with an extensive Jewish history prior to Zionist colonization. And on that note...
  5. Don't deny Jewish history in Palestine. There's been a continuous Jewish presence in Palestine ever since the Romans destroyed Judea - and not just the descendants of Jews who stuck around after that. Jews have been making aliyah to Palestine, and specifically the four holy cities (Hebron, Safed, Tiberias, and Jerusalem), for pretty much the entire history of the Jewish Diaspora. Every time Jews got expelled from somewhere, some Jews migrated to Palestine. There was even an attempt, in the middle of the war between the Byzantines and Sasanians in the 7th century, to regain political autonomy in Palestine and reconstitute Judea under the Sasanians (it, uh, obviously didn't succeed.) This is all historical fact, but none of it justifies the existence of a genocidal apartheid state in the modern day. Denying the history doesn't help anyone, it just makes you antisemitic.
  6. Stop reblogging the Neturei Karta. The Neturei Karta are a fringe group of Litvish Haredim who split off from other Haredim in Jerusalem. They're very publicly anti-Zionist while also being visibly ultra-Orthodox, so they get a lot of attention, but they're also Holocaust revisionists who attended and spoke at a 2006 Holocaust denial conference whose other speakers included David Duke of the KKK and several outright Holocaust deniers, and their leader defended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a president of Iran who claimed Jews made up the Holocaust, from claims of antisemitism. If you want anti-Zionist Jews, there are plenty of us. Don't give the fucking Neturei Karta any oxygen.
  7. Finally: Zionism is not a euphemism. Zionism is not "when Jews do a thing I don't like," and a Zionist is not "a Jew I disagree with/don't like". Zionism is a nationalism, and like all nationalisms, it hasn't delivered on the liberation it was created to provide, and it's horribly oppressed others in the process. Zionism will never go away in full until the material conditions that drive Jewish nationalism - that is, global antisemitism - are addressed, and yet the Palestinian right to liberation is not and must not be contingent on the end of antisemitism. It's not the Palestinians' fault that Zionists thought colonizing them would solve antisemitism, and they have the right to resist their colonization and genocide by any means necessary. This is the fundamental problem at the core of the issue: Zionists believe Jewish safety will only come from a Jewish ethnostate with a Jewish majority, and since everywhere on Earth is populated by someone, it may as well be in Palestine, given the Jewish historical roots there. And they're wrong. They're doing horrific, evil, genocidal things in the name of Jewish safety, and they're wrong to do so. But we can condemn Zionism from an informed perspective, rather than from an ignorant one, and in so doing avoid antisemitism and strengthen our anti-Zionist work. The last thing we want to do is spread Nazi rhetoric in the name of Palestinian liberation.

(N.B. If you saw the earlier version of this post and wondered why it changed, the first one had racist garbage in it that I'd insufficiently distanced myself from to look at critically, and what I thought was presenting a racist worldview for critical scrutiny was in fact just perpetuating apologia for that worldview. Just as avoiding antisemitism isn't automatic, neither is avoiding anti-Palestinian racism, and I needed to actually do that work.)


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