My whole life I was taught to be vigilant for instances where people spread accusations against a minority group to justify widespread violence against that minority group. I was taught about how these accusations, known as 'blood libel,' were used against Jewish people in europe
I also attended this screening and, as Giles says, the footage was distressing. It also confirmed my belief it should be passed to news organisations who can verify & report it independently as opposed to it being packaged by IDF and shown to influencers who can tweet afterwards.
drastic increases in reported 'fear' felt by Jews in the imperial core is largely a result of the hegemonic Islamophobic anti/philosemitic zionist narratives constantly being pushed into our faces as opposed to a reliable indication of true increased threats to Jewish safety.
I have commented lightly on the absurd propaganda about Jewish Zionist students feeling unsafe on US college campuses but want to make clear: pro-Palestine students and faculty are being punished regularly for their speech. Nobody else.
For 🇺🇸 Jewish ppl like me who grew up going to synagogue, we were exposed to constant Zionist propaganda from a young age, even in “progressive” synagogues
Ex: I was taught that Israel is “A land without a people for a people without a land” — truly genocidal colonial erasure
that’s weird cause my four year old just said “why are narcissistic people in the west always conceiving themselves as the subjects of history even when it pertains to material realities being changed on the other side of the world?”