An Open Letter to American Zionist Jews: It's Time To Do The Right Thing.
You are the only people with the incentive and ability to push for de-escalation in Iran, by pressuring Israel to unconditionally surrender and dissolve itself.
I have been trying to find the words or the courage to speak aloud or on camera, but they keep evading me. I am writing this now because this is the way I feel closest to Gd and closest to clarity, and I feel both are necessary to effectively relay what I feel compelled to say from the seat of my ancestral soul.
For the sake of the wellbeing of the planet, for the future of the Jewish people, for the liberation of all beings and the restoration of the world, I call on all American Zionist Jews and Jewish sympathizers of the state of Israel, to demand the unconditional surrender of the Israeli government, the voluntary dissolution of the state of Israel, and an end to the occupation of Palestine.
The modern oppressors of Jews have always primarily been European - and now, American - Christians & their descendants of all denominations, irrespective of ethnicity, nationality, or class. Their historical actions are the reason why many of you have been falsely indoctrinated into believing Zionism is for your benefit and protection, when it is actually for theirs, economically and politically. European and American Anti-Zionists -- especially theologically progressive & former Christians who are politically leftwing in America -- want to disclaim their contributions towards the continued existence of Israel & its occupation, as well as blame their own domestic complacency, violence, and suffering on Israel and its lobbying interests. But the geopolitical reality is that Israel only persisted this long because it served their hegemonic interests, whether they want to admit it or not. We’re primarily in this mess because oftentimes, these same folks enjoy the fruits of white and/or Christian supremacy (or aspire to them), and don’t actually want to give them up, and that shows up in everything they do and say. You know they are hypocrites and what that hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance is capable of.
You can undermine them all, now, by doing what they think you won’t or can’t do. You can deny them the ability to use you as a weapon and a shield of deflection. Withdraw your consent from Zionism, your material and ideological support for the state of Israel, now. Loudly. Then let the rest of the world show us who they really are, for better or for worse. Put the onus back on them to fix the disaster they’ve helped to make. Make them responsible for their own actions and agency, by being responsible for yours.
American Evangelicals and their stooges will not allow Donald Trump to de-escalate. They are on the Third Crusade, and the government they will institute when they inevitably dispose of Donald Trump, will put you in detention camps alongside our immigrant neighbors. That government will engage in systematic mass murder and ethnic cleansing, including of Jews, above and beyond what they have already done to people who exist outside the parameters of their utopia through chattel slavery, colonial genocide, and xenophobia.
Zionist Jews and Jewish sympathizers of the state of Israel: if you do not use your political and moral power in this moment to choose your Jewishness over Zionism, to pressure Israelis politically and expose the naked reality of who and what the American government is, and to demand Israel’s unconditional surrender and dissolution, the Jewish people will not survive. The planet may not even survive. You have the power and agency to choose life in this moment, when the continued existence and actions of the state of Israel have now reached the level of provoking nuclear annihilation and global catastrophe. American Evangelicals have made their intentions for the world crystal clear, and those intentions haven’t changed since the Inquisition, since the Puritans who created Zionism in the 1600s, or the Shoah. You cannot outwit madmen or negotiate in good faith with them, either.
What is more important to you: your children’s lives, your own lives, the survival of the planet? Or refusing to admit that you were wrong and some of our people are complicit in unthinkable horrors?
The Jewish sages have insisted that a key component of our way of being in the world is that we are called put life before the covenant, before our communal practices and principles. We celebrate life, we do not venerate martyrdom or promote it as virtuous. Allowing half the population of the world’s Jews to martyr themselves & innocent people for the greedy, self-interested, reckless behavior of two despicable nation-states, against a backdrop of nuclear annihilation and human rights violations, is untenable and unacceptable. It directly contradicts your own professed beliefs in why Israel should persist or exist in the first place.
Your enemies were *never*, and have never, been Palestinians, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranians, the Lebanese people, or Muslims in general. It was and always has been the bastards who are now dropping bombs on a girl’s school, starving little girls world over to pay for those fucking missiles, and the cowardly governments who are cutting deals to keep the oil and consumer goods flowing through the Strait, with little regard for human lives and our collective ecological security.
Do the right thing.
Do it now, LOUDLY and without delay.
Withdraw your institutional, economic, and personal consent from this disaster.
Pressure your Israeli loved ones to surrender, and trust in our ability to advocate for the just application of international law in creating accountability for Israel and the United States.
Refuse to martyr the living and our ancestors.
Refuse the fulfillment of Christian apocalypse, and further enabling the reign of terror of globalized white supremacy.
Choose to redeem the captives of centuries of domination and injustice from their violent oppressors: Palestinians, Iranians, Israelis, yourselves, and all other marginalized Americans held hostage by delusions and denial.
Pikuach nefesh: choose the life of the soul of the world.
Tikkun olam, choose to repair it, and let the false promises of the state of Israel die.
There is no other way. This is it.