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                        1. 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…
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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.pdf
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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."
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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."
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                  The books is laid out in much detail in this interview on The Fire These Times podcast. thefirethesetimes.com/2024/02/16/israel-and-american-jewish-dissent-w-geoffrey-levin/ This suggests a much more ambivalent community, especially before the 1967 war, and discusses efforts to suppress American Jewish dissent on Israel/Palestine.
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                These dissents within the organized American Jewish community were of course paralleled by secular exiles from that community, most notably Noam Chomsky. But the dissent was far wider than I was aware of.
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              3. Pankaj Mishra's essay "The Shoah After Gaza" is in large part a telling of the dissents occasioned among Shoah survivors over Israel long before 2023. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
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            And this has been the most suprising and impactful given that the voices involved are people I was familiar with… Notably, two analysts of the Shoah/Nazi genocide I've relied upon, Saul Friedlander and Zygmunt Bauman are prominent in this story alongside Primo Levi.
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          "Saul Friedlander, the foremost historian of the Shoah, who left Israel partly because he couldn’t bear to see the Shoah being used ‘as a pretext for harsh anti-Palestinian measures’…"
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        "Zygmunt Bauman, the Polish-born Jewish philosopher and refugee from Nazism who spent three years in Israel in the 1970s before fleeing its mood of bellicose righteousness, despaired of what he saw as the ‘privatisation’ of the Shoah by Israel and its supporters. …
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      "It has come to be remembered, he wrote in 1988, ‘as a private experience of the Jews, as a matter between the Jews and their haters’, even as the conditions that made it possible were appearing again around the world."
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    Bauman's work pointed far beyond this, to a modern capacity for ultraviolence and new holocausts. He reframed the danger as a problem of states and bureaucracy.
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