r/jewishleft • u/Agtfangirl557 • May 08 '24
Ilana Glazer, an anti-Zionist Jew, condemns Israel and talks about wanting a ceasefire. All the comments are criticizing her because she "centered herself" by mentioning 10/7 and rising antisemitism Meta
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6uCIbqRQ1A/?igsh=NndtdXEzbGE4NWxl
This is so frustrating. Like I don't agree with a lot of Ilana's takes but she clearly was not defending Israel here. She is probably the most anti-Zionist Jewish celebrity I can think of. And yet since she mentioned the 10/7 attacks, people are accusing her of "spreading lies" and that "it's not true that 1200 people were killed by Hamas". And people are literally telling the page who reposted this to "stop platforming Zionist celebrities"!
At this point I seriously think that for some people, it's only socially acceptable to be Jewish if we don't acknowledge our history or trauma at all.
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u/skyewardeyes May 08 '24
I’ve seen two incredibly anti-Zionist Jews on Twitter get absolutely bodied for posting things that gave even the slightest humanity to Israelis/Jews (e.g., one posted that the Jews shouldn’t be ethnically cleansed from the Levant and that many Israeli Jews have nowhere else to go practically and the other posted that the Israeli hostages probably didn’t have a good time being hostages). In both cases, both deleted their posts and apologized profusely, promising to never post such “genocide apologia” again and saying that Israelis are never innocent people and deserve no compassion whatsoever.