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Zionism's/Israel's internal inequality, racism, creation of refugees, and unrestrained violence have created moral crises for generations of Jewish scholars. Until I encountered these recent works, I was unaware of important links in the chain…Permalink On twitter.com
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1. In Doppelganger, Naomi Klein's @NaomiAKlein history of Zionism places it as alternative to Eastern European left efforts to claim a place locally. The relevant chapters are posted online (w/ publisher's permission) here: naomiklein.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Israel-Palestine-and-the-Doppelganger-Effect.pdfPermalink On twitter.com
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@NaomiAKlein At the core of the Jewish Labor Bund approach was "doi’kayt, or “hereness”—the idea that Jews belonged where they lived, in what was known as “the pale of settlement,” and should fight for greater rights and increased justice as Jews and as workers."Permalink On twitter.com
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@NaomiAKlein "The Bund held fast to the belief that Jews would be free when everyone was free, and not by building what amounted to a militarized ghetto on Palestinian land. 'Your liberation can only be a by-product of the universal freeing of oppressed people,' wrote Victor Alter in 1937."Permalink On twitter.com
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2. Historian Jeffrey Levin uncovers how liberal Americans radically questioned Israel in dialogue with the Israeli left during the 1940s to 1970s in Our Palestine Question. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267853/our-palestine-question/On twitter.com
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Thread continues… x.com/CarwilBJ/status/1764504643487309949Permalink On twitter.com
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