For many years now most socialist groups have been quicker to defend anybody's free speech rights than today's very illiberal liberals. For me the best and most credible sources of Zionist criticism are Jews themselves who have never betrayed their humane ideals.
For example , the late Oliver Sacks - a rather non-political Jewish neurologist . In his biography " Uncle Tungsten " Sacks talks about his very negative impression of Zionist fund raisers for Israel in his English neighborhood in the 1940s. The famous scientist ( played by Robin Williams in the movie " Awakenings " ) described them quite simply as " bullies ".
On You Tube you can find scholars Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky passionately defending the rights of oppressed Palestinians.
In 1975 the United Nations declared Zionism to be a form of racism. But in the United States today it seems like anti-Zionism is considered anti-Semitic racism.
To be sure, no real socialist is ever seduced by toxic nationalism.
I love my country too. But I don't love capitalism and I don't love our greedy ruling class. And I won't say THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE to imperialist occupiers.
[ " I never heard [my parents] talk between themselves about Palestine or Zionism, and I suspected they had no strong convictions on the subject, at least until after the war, when the horror of the Holocaust made them feel there should be a “National Home.” I felt they were bullied by the organizers of these meetings, and by the gangsterlike evangelists who would pound at the front door and demand large sums for yeshivas or “schools in Israel.” My parents, clearheaded and independent in most other ways, seemed to become soft and helpless in the face of these demands, perhaps driven by a sense of obligation or anxiety. My own feelings […] were passionately negative: I came to hate Zionism and evangelism and politicking of every sort, which I regarded as noisy and intrusive and bullying. " ---- OLIVER SACKS ]
For example , the late Oliver Sacks - a rather non-political Jewish neurologist . In his biography " Uncle Tungsten " Sacks talks about his very negative impression of Zionist fund raisers for Israel in his English neighborhood in the 1940s. The famous scientist ( played by Robin Williams in the movie " Awakenings " ) described them quite simply as " bullies ".
On You Tube you can find scholars Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky passionately defending the rights of oppressed Palestinians.
In 1975 the United Nations declared Zionism to be a form of racism. But in the United States today it seems like anti-Zionism is considered anti-Semitic racism.
To be sure, no real socialist is ever seduced by toxic nationalism.
I love my country too. But I don't love capitalism and I don't love our greedy ruling class. And I won't say THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE to imperialist occupiers.
[ " I never heard [my parents] talk between themselves about Palestine or Zionism, and I suspected they had no strong convictions on the subject, at least until after the war, when the horror of the Holocaust made them feel there should be a “National Home.” I felt they were bullied by the organizers of these meetings, and by the gangsterlike evangelists who would pound at the front door and demand large sums for yeshivas or “schools in Israel.” My parents, clearheaded and independent in most other ways, seemed to become soft and helpless in the face of these demands, perhaps driven by a sense of obligation or anxiety. My own feelings […] were passionately negative: I came to hate Zionism and evangelism and politicking of every sort, which I regarded as noisy and intrusive and bullying. " ---- OLIVER SACKS ]
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