Lena Bloch
1 min readSep 26, 2024

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"One doesn’t need prior knowledge of Palestine or a degree in political science to conclude that Zionism has no business among the living. All it requires is an understanding that what the people of Gaza are being made to suffer is completely inhuman, or should be, anyway, if humanity is worth a damn.

We see what the Zionist entity does in Gaza, the extensive rubble, the mutilation, the dead children, accompanied by incessant glee and mockery. We know too that in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust nobody suggested that its victims should coexist with its perpetrators. (Indeed, the idea of Jews and Nazis sharing a country was rightly considered outlandish, one reason why the Holocaust was, and continues to be, such an effective justification for the theft of Palestine.) Everybody without cynical intentions understood that Nazism needed to be expunged, not accommodated. We feel the same way about Zionism. So we protect ourselves from the annoyances of bourgeois pragmatism—the half-baked Orientalism, the high-handed pontification, the snitching and scabbing, the appeals to civility, the ideological discipline—each act landing squarely on death’s side of the binary.

If you are across from us somewhere beyond that dark red trench, among the white-hot artillery, then you needn’t sermonize about the proper way to suffer a genocide. Instead, take a moment, or a lifetime, and consider what kind of person Zionism requires you to be." - Steven Salaita, https://stevesalaita.com/your-crisis-of-faith-is-not-my-concern-theres-a-genocide-going-on/

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Lena Bloch
Lena Bloch

Written by Lena Bloch

Background in psychology of learning, literature, philosophy, math.

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