Israel or Democracy

You Can Only Choose One

Convicted terrorist, prolific racist, and Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir gave a speech at Chabad Lubovitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, New York on April 25th where he was met with protest outside the building. An Orthodox Jewish mob responded to the protest with violence, smashing the phone of one pro-Palestine Jewish man and chasing a lone woman down the road while chanting “Death to Arabs”, throwing a trash can at her and beating her, all while the NYPD looked on. It was subsequently revealed that the woman they attacked was Jewish Israeli. You may not have heard about this, since the media has decided to utterly ignore it (which we know for a fact would not be the case if the victim was a Zionist). 18 months of appeals to the cause of “Jewish safety” as justification for mass suppression of pro-Palestine thought nationwide go up in smoke as the victims of these attacks are themselves Jewish. The problem is that they are the wrong kind of Jew, the kind that believes that Palestinians deserve to live.

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While Zionists roundly applauded this group of men violently attacking a lone woman, it must be noted that these are many of the same people who have been weaponizing their feelings of unsafety for the last 18 months against any objections to genocide. Eyal Yakoby, a student at the University of Pennsylvania who spoke to Congress about how “unsafe” his campus was for Jews, was seen celebrating this attack on Twitter. It has never been more clear that what Zionists want is supremacy in the United States, not protection or equality. Antisemitism is their weapon of choice, but antisemitism was never their concern. It is merely a tool to achieve their goal of enacting state oppression and mob violence against anyone who has the temerity to criticize their ethnosupremacist colonial project.

As people are disappeared off the streets left and right, are fired and doxxed, are beaten bloody, are arrested and detained and deported, for the crime of speaking out against genocide, while most of the media either ignores or misrepresents them and politicians have nary a word to say in defense of them, it is clear that the only people who live in a remotely free society are those who love Israel. If you think that no one deserves to be bombed to death in their tents, to be starved, to be thrown in torture dungeons and raped, to witness their children being picked off one by one, to live under occupation and apartheid, you are now an enemy of the state. Every single solitary ideal that Democrats and Republicans alike pretend to hold dear has an Israel carveout. It is de facto (and in some ways de jure) the law that the constitution does not cover you if you are a critic of the Zionist entity. It does not matter if you are a Jew, it does not even matter if you are an Israeli, the only thing that matters is that you must love Israel or suffer the consequences.

We are currently witnessing a top down restructuring of society in Israel’s image. We are watching as our government and media decides who deserves the full protection of the law and who does not, this time not based on race or religion or gender as in the past, but on ideology alone. Our government is tightening the noose around us and making it clear that if you so much as post “Free Palestine” on your social media, you are inviting ICE agents into your home, opening yourself to assault that will go unpunished, begging for your visa to be cancelled and your expulsion from school. The ideals that our leaders have used as justification to invade countries and slaughter their people, the ideals of freedom of speech and freedom of expression, are now being thrown away at home so that the government can not only tell you what to do, but how to think and feel. It does not matter that the majority of this country has unfavorable views of Israel, if you want to have protection under the law you better sign that loyalty pledge.

What utter absurdity that you can say “fuck America” and be unmolested but the second you say “fuck Israel” you have to look over your shoulder. What absurdity that our ruling class cares less that the entire country is being dismantled than they do that college kids are objecting to a genocide. While Democrats prattle on about democracy and the rule of law, they have been in lockstep with Republicans bringing the full force of the state down upon anyone who doesn’t love Israel as they do. The truth is we could never count on the fervent supporters of a fascist ethnostate abroad to defend us from fascism at home. You can’t be a sometimes fascist. That’s not how it works.

So much of the refusal to challenge what Trump is doing to dismantle due process and the rule of law in this country is due to the fact that the Zionist “opposition party” largely supports it and put much of the machinery in place to enact it. Chuck Schumer can’t find it within himself to challenge the man that put the US Embassy in Jerusalem, because he agrees with it. He’ll get right on that resisting fascism stuff as soon as he finishes hawking his new antiZionism is antisemitism book and telling everyone he was put in Congress by God to defend Israel. Nancy Pelosi will surely mount a fierce anti-Trump resistance whenever she’s finished telling everyone the capital could crumble tomorrow and what would remain is our support for the Zionist entity. Michigan A.G. Dana Nessel will defend the constitution as soon as she’s done raiding the homes of pro-Palestine college students. The New York times will expose this regime as soon as they’ve finished laundering this genocide.

The policy in the United States, across party lines, is thus: if it happens to someone who hates Israel, we will look the other way. If we do speak out in your defense, will will make sure to tell everyone what a piece of shit you are first. This country is Israel first, and it will stay that way until the very end, even if we have to jail half of you to make it so.

This is the best you can hope for from a US Politician if you don’t love Israel

The only way to resist this is for us to have a zero tolerance policy with anyone - politician, journalist, family member - who supports the Zionist project. We must see them in the exact way we see supporters of Nazi Germany. They are corrosive to the very idea of living in a society. They are incapable of being allies and incapable of solidarity. They must be treated as lepers and shunned by all of us. There must be a cost to being a champion of death.

The Israel question is the moral question of our time and the tip of the spear of fascism coming home. While AOC and Bernie are bringing thousands to rallies to fight oligarchy, they aren’t showing up in Louisiana to defend clear victims of this rancid ideology. They aren’t confronting Zionism head on. They’ve mostly sidestepped the issue, and at times even reinforced the Zionist position. They cannot be the inheritors of a movement that resists fascism when they are soft on the kind of fascism that we are seeing weaponized against our very own. Only those who resist Israel full-throatedly and without reservation can be trusted to inherit this movement and mount a challenge to this omnicidal world order.

I can’t tell you why this country is following Israel into a death spiral. It cannot be neatly explained through AIPAC donations alone. So much of it seems to be pure ideology. What I can tell you is that these “sometimes fascists” won’t save you. They loaded the gun and they’re relieved that someone is finally firing it. Thinking you can find common cause with them or expecting them to take meaningful action to save us is folly. You are either on the side of humanity 100% of the time or you aren’t at all. There is no in between. The only credible fight for a better world is one that is comprised of people who will not let political expediency or fear of reprisal deter them from defending all human life everywhere. On this issue we must never compromise.

It is Israel or democracy, Israel or humanity, Israel or the world.

You must choose.

It’s either that or sign your loyalty pledge and get it over with.

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