L.S. Sharrow, Author

Jewish. Socialist. Zionist. Expose racist antizionism. ✡️

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

Why are antizionists throwing around the word "genocide" against a community that suffered one? The Israeli community?

[Kylie Ora Lobell @kylieoralobell]

I was a non-Jew who got brainwashed by her college professor to be anti-Israel. I knew nothing about Israel, couldn't even locate it on a map. He told the class, "Jewish lawyers made documents the poor Palestinians couldn't understand and then stole their land."

I graduated from college just as the flotilla incident happened. Since I trusted the media, automatically, I was against Israel again then too.

When I started converting to Judaism a short while later, I learned the truth about Israel--and saw firsthand when I visited for the first time in 2014.

There was no apartheid.

There was no genocide.

This was not a settler-colonialist project.

I did my research and I learned history, and then I saw the truth in front of my eyes. That's why I became pro-Israel.

Today, someone asked me, "How can we make people outside of the Jewish bubble learn the truth?"

Here was my advice: "Be unapologetically Jewish, and don't call people morons, idiots, or Kapos for not agreeing with you. Smart people will recognize what is really going on and hear you out. Perhaps they will even change their mind and advocate for us. State the facts, stand strong, and don't be the victim."

I have an interesting perspective since I've been in both worlds--and that's what worked for me.

Shabbat Shalom, friends.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

The flood of genocide accusations directed at Israel in aftermath of October 7 functioned not as moral judgment but as mechanism of concealment: displacing recognition of the genocide that had just occurred by saturating global information space w/accusations against its victims.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

https://t.co/t6RsChb15B

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

This

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

The Montreal shooter's list of "Class A targets for liquidation" includes "influential Zionists."

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

This

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

@ThePosieParker 💯🎯💯 Except it's antizionism not antisemitism. They blame the Jews for being white gen
ocidal colonizers, polluting the Middle East, rather than brown skinned invaders polluting Europe.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

I'm not a Jew-hater. I'm a Jew-hater.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

Keep calling me a Zionist. Nothing makes me prouder.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

Antizionist hatred.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

This.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

And all what @adam_louis52328 says leads to violence, mass murder and genocide.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

Mahmoud Mamdani, father of the current mayor of New York, insists that international law is biased and politically motivated when used to condemn an Islamist genocide in Sudan, but that same skeptical lens is nowhere to be found when it comes to Israel. In the case of the Jewish state, suddenly these same international bodies are treated as neutral, infallible arbiters. Accusations of genocide against Israel, no matter how distorted or ideologically charged, are taken at face value. The claim of politicized lawfare vanishes, replaced by a dogmatic faith in global institutions that, only moments earlier, were dismissed as tools of Western domination.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

This.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

This.

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

Paris, Bruxelles, London, Toulouse, etc. There are no borders to the killing fields targeting Jews.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

I'm pleased to share an essay I wrote for @TheAtlantic.

As a left-wing Jew who supports universal human rights, I argue that opposition to antizionism flows from those values. For more than a century, antizionism has justified the erasure of Jewish life, the expulsion of Jews, and violence and discrimination against those marked as "Zionists."

The Democratic Party—and all people of conscience—should condemn it.

https://t.co/wMYIjJarGT

[Kevin Deutsch @kdeutschjourno]

Antizionist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday used racialized conspiracy libels to demonize Jews, delivering a speech that portrayed AIPAC, pro-Israel donors, and Americans who support the U.S.-Israel alliance as “monsters” moving “millions in dark money” to “preserve their power” and “turn us against one another.”

Read the article here: https://t.co/UHDyisyOcc

[L.S. Sharrow, Author @LRedredwine]

I'm a Jew-hater, not a Jew-hater.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

Another notable loss in the courts against antizionist discrimination to add to the Stand with Us vs. MIT case. Though it’s worth remembering the UC Berkeley victory, Jewish communities are accumulating a patchy record of precedents.

Lawyers can parse the errors and biases in each case, but the courts are moving in this direction because antizionism hasn’t been stigmatized culturally.

Let’s say it straight: unless Jewish communities make it their central task, tomorrow, to educate the public about antizionism, loudly and outwardly say its name, and demand that it be recognized as bigotry, then we will continue to lose.

There’s no other option than a movement against antizionism.

https://t.co/BETxkviqx5