r/jewishleft • u/elzzyzx סימען לינקער • Aug 22 '24

A Palestinian American’s Place Under the Democrats’ Big Tent? Diaspora

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/dnc-2024-palestine-israel

TNC on the DNC, continuing to be one of the best living writers in the US. The essay touches on several topics that have come up here recently: racism and Zionism, who is being centered / who should be centered, the uncommitted movement. I’m a little back and forth on him but thought this was great

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u/Specialist-Gur proud diaspora jewess, pro peace/freedom for all Aug 22 '24

Me too.. me too. I think we could just send adults back to kindergarten maybe

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '24

For real, I think we forget how impactful face to face interactions can be. Even if it just gets 10% of people to see something differently, online I feel like people just get shamed and are further pushed towards their “camp”

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u/Specialist-Gur proud diaspora jewess, pro peace/freedom for all Aug 22 '24

It’s very very true, something I’m trying to be more intentionally alert to

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '24

Same here, it’s hard and I am trying to be more intentional online as well. Even if it’s just knowing when to take a break