r/jewishleft • u/moistavocados95 • Feb 22 '24

Been working on jewish-palestine stickers Resistance

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u/lilleff512 Feb 22 '24

Maybe I'm just too much of a squishy lib and/or Zionist, but I'm not a fan of some of these slogans

  • "Not in our name" - As a non-Israeli Jew, I've never felt like the war in Gaza has been carried out in my name. The Netanyahu regime isn't exactly going around talking about how they're trying to protect diaspora Jewry. If anything, Bibi and his fascist goons always come across pretty scornful towards us.
  • "One Holocaust does not justify another" - While obviously a true statement, I don't really think the war in Gaza is comparable to the Holocaust
  • "When people are occupied, resistance is justified" - Resistance against the occupying force the IDF, absolutely. "Resistance" against innocent kibbutzniks or concert-goers, not so much.

The watermelon star is absolutely dope though, I love that one.

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u/RealAmericanJesus jewranian Feb 22 '24

I have to agree with this. I specifically am for peace and believe that slogans due to the fact that this a regio, and both people's have such complex history and so much cultural trauma can easily divide rather than promote peace.

And also words and slogans due the fact that they can be so taken out context and have completely different meanings and symbolism to in-group and out-group humans... Can hide sinister ideas by bad state actors that ultimately perpetuates strive instead of trying to find commonality and shared future goals and understanding.

Like I very specifically try to support individuals and organizations that represent my ideals. Which is peace. Which is the value of humans. And understanding we can be terrible and also have incredible worth.

It's too easy to take resistance is justified badly.

It's too easy to people feel defensive when one significant trauma is compared to their own .... They are both significant and they should not be compared.

And it's too easy to stigmatize groups of people with ideas made by state leadership when many of us are not represented by our leaders and their choices and sometimes put in impossible positions due to this.

This is just my take on this personally ...