Ariella Aisha Azoulay
First, the historical part. The Zionists have tried to permanently erase this call by anti-Zionist Jews from our memory. These Jewish elders were part of the world of Judaism and Islam and did not want to leave it. They warned of the dangers posed by Zionism to Jews around the world between North Africa and the Middle East, including Palestine.
It must be remembered that until the end of World War II, Zionism was a marginal and unimportant movement among the Jewish people around the world. Therefore, until that time, our elders did not even have to oppose Zionism. They can also simply ignore it. It was only after World War II, when the remaining Jews in Europe (most of whom were not Zionists before the war) had little place to go, that Western imperial powers seized the opportunity to support the Zionist project. . For them, it was a viable alternative to keeping Jews in Europe or emigrating to the United States, and they used the international institutions they created to accelerate that realization.
In doing so, they spread the lie that their actions were a Jewish liberation project, when in reality this project perpetuated the eradication of diverse Jewish communities far beyond Europe. And even worse, the liberation of the Jews was used as permission and reason to destroy Palestine. This would not have been possible without an increasing number of Jews becoming mercenaries in Europe. Jews who immigrated to Palestine while fleeing or survived genocide in Europe, Jews in Palestine before the arrival of the Zionists, and Jews who were seduced by Palestine. Those who come to Palestine, or those who have had no choice but to leave the Muslim and Jewish world since Israel was founded with the express purpose of being an anti-Islamic, anti-Arab state – all European and was encouraged by European Zionists as follows: Arabs and Muslims are the enemy.
We must remember that Muslims and Arabs were never the enemies of Jews, and furthermore, many Jews in the Muslim-majority world were themselves Arabs. It won't. It was only with the founding of Israel that these two categories, Jews and Arabs, became mutually exclusive.
This destruction of the Judeo-Muslim world after World War II made possible the invention of Judeo-Christian traditions, but Jews no longer lived outside the Christian Western world. From that moment on, it became a reality. The survival of the Jewish regime in Israel required more settlers, so Muslims and Jews from the Jewish world were forced to leave to become part of this nation-state. Isolated and deprived of their rich and diverse history, they could be socialized into this role assigned to them by Europe: as mercenaries for this settler-colonial regime to restore Western power in the Middle East. There is.
Understanding this historical context does not alleviate the responsibility of Zionist perpetrators for the crimes committed against Palestinians over the decades. Rather, it is primarily concerned with Europe's role in the destruction and extermination of the Jewish community, but not only Europe, and Europe's role in handing over Palestine to the Zionists, who are said to represent the survivors of this genocide, who formed the Western post. Remind them of their roles. Even for fellow European actors in the Middle East.
Paradoxically, the only place in the world today where Jews and Arabs (mostly Muslims) share the same land is between a river and the sea. But since 1948, this place has been defined by genocidal violence. The urgent question now is how to stop the genocide and how to stop the introduction of further weapons into the region.
in Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt describes the conflicting emotions that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust felt during the years they spent in displacement camps in Europe. On the other hand, she said, they could never imagine living with their abusers again. On the other hand, she said, what they wanted most was to return to their places. It is not surprising that after this genocide in Gaza, Palestinians may be unable to imagine sharing the world with their perpetrators, the Israelis. But is that proof that this world of Arabs and Zionist Jews together should also be destroyed in order to rebuild Palestine from the ashes? It is in the political imagination of Western empires that tragedies on a scale comparable to World War II and the Holocaust could be ended with brutal solutions such as partition, population displacement, national independence, and the destruction of the world. It was possible only under
We have a global obligation to claim what I call of The right not to become a perpetrator And practice it in every possible way. Longshoremen refusing arms shipments to Israel; students going on hunger strikes to pressure universities to divest; and the right of ancestors to sever ties with their communities and families and to act and speak out as anti-Zionists. Jews, protesters occupying state buildings, and at the risk of being arrested at train stations, they all agree to this, even if they do not express it clearly in these terms. Motivated by rights. They understand the role that their governments, and more broadly the systems in which they are governed, play in perpetuating this genocide, and as their common slogan goes, they believe it is in their name. I also understand what is being done.