Lena Bloch
Sep 26, 2024

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Steven Salaita said it very well: he pointed out that irrational, fanatical support for Israel and sadism based on supremacism comes from a certain personality and requires a certain personality that humanity must purge. Otherwise they will eat us all. Not just Palestine or Lebanon.

'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.'

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Lena Bloch
Lena Bloch

Written by Lena Bloch

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

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