Conservative Dissonance
I WROTE THIS IN JUNE 2020 DURING BLM PROTESTS. I NEVER IMAGINED HOW RELEVANT IT WOULD BE ON A MACRO SCALE.
06.26.20
Let me get this straight. You back/support a country and ‘people’ who are committing genocidal atrocities against native civilians on a daily basis, flaunting it on live TV and Social media, and then crying about the bias they’ve faced for millennia(Jews/Hebrews are certainly one of the most oppressed and discriminated against peoples in history) (considering the history of America – indigenous genocide and African slavery – I’m absolutely not surprised) – – but you won’t/can’t/refuse to support or get behind our NEIGHBORS, Who are terrorized by a corrupt govt and cartel regime killing civilians within AND ACROSS our borders, when in fact our govt is complicit in the formation, and ongoing existence of that criminal entity bc of its own shadow drug dealings and the ‘[FAILED] War on Drugs’.
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The atrocious logic necessary to rationalize and delude this away is baffling.
Judaism is a beautiful, embracing, simple religious culture that exists and flourishes right here in NYC. Friends, neighbors, loved ones, colleagues – so many of my circle are adherents of this monotheistic monolith.
Zionism on the other hand, is a deranged vengeance pact of nauseating, degrading rhetoric and unabashed, unmitigated violence perpetuated by a maniacal group of narcissistic megalomaniacs who think it’s ok to eradicate another culture based on the concept of ‘the sins of the [fore]fathers’?!? Am I the only person who finds this ironic? (SPOILER ALERT: No I’m not).
But somehow it’s become entrenched in the MSM and minds of many that Anti-Zionism(AZ) is Anti-Semitism. This could not be further from the truth. AZ is Pro-Semitism, Pro-Palestinian, Pro-Life, Pro-Peace. It is the embodiment of the idea that all humans have a right to live without fear and oppression. Make no mistake. What happens in Gaza and the WB is not self defense. It is offensively minded, proactive genocide of Palestinian Muslims. It is the wiping out of an indigenous peoples. It’s interesting that Israeli journalism has slowly inoculated the term ‘Settlers’ – in lieu of Colonizers – into the Western lexicon regarding their ever constant encroachment of Israeli colonizers into Palestinian occupied land and regions. It is somehow fitting, that a people whom still try to elicit sympathy and remorse by invoking the genocide of the Holocaust, in the same breath espouse the sovereignty they possess to dispossess another culture of the place and land on which they ALREADY existed for thousands of years.
But I digress. Take this for what it’s worth – because there are volumes I could write about it – but conservatives in this country, the ‘Christians for Israel’ crowd, have me stumped. It’s ok to support murderers. But it’s problematic to support the refugees running from murder!?!
