The Role of U.S. Churches in the BDS Movement
The role of U.S. churches in the BDS movement
What were his points?
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The Role of U.S. Churches in the BDS Movement
The role of U.S. churches in the BDS movement
What were his points?
Oh jeese, more Israeli terrorist propaganda crap.
Oh jeese, more Israeli terrorist propaganda crap.
Oh jeese. Your delicate islamo-sensibilities are offended.
Oh jeese, more Israeli terrorist propaganda crap.
Oh jeese, more Israeli terrorist propaganda crap.
Oh jeese. Your delicate islamo-sensibilities are offended.
I don't get offended by Israel shoveling shit. That is their defining characteristic.
They, like many, conflate anti-Zionism with criticism of Israel.
They are just desperate to shut down talk about Palestinian rights.
Do the Jewish people have the right to self-determination? No, no they do not.
Do the Jewish people have the right to self-determination in the form of self-government (a State). No, no they do not.
Do the Jewish people have the right to sovereign self-determination defined by international boundaries? They do not.
Do the Jewish people have the right to peace and security? No, they do not.
Now, what happens if we acknowledge that both peoples have rights and that the rights of both peoples must be protected? How would we frame that conversation? How would we ensure that the rights of both peoples are able to be exercised?
The Jewish people and the Arab Palestinian peoples both have rights to self-determination.
The Jewish people and the Arab Palestinian peoples both have rights to a State.
The Jewish people and the Arab Palestinian peoples both have rights to a territory.
The Jewish people and the Arab Palestinian peoples both have rights to peace and security.
Do you see how that fundamentally changes the conversation?
Who should have a State? Well, both of them obviously.
Who should have a sovereign territory? Well, both of them.
Who should have peace and security? Both of them.
See, the granting of rights to one peoples does not actually remove them from another. Who should be permitted to access the Holy Places? Both of them obviously. Is that possible? Of course it is. Who should have territory? Well, both of them. Is that possible? Of course it is. Just draw a line. People are already living where they are living. (You could always use a little parenting trick -- have one child make the cut and the other child choose the piece they want.) Who should have peace and security? Both. No more resisting. This is not hard.
The problem is that Team Palestine constantly frames the conflict in such a way that the Jewish people's rights must be restricted, removed, retracted or refused. And that, my friends, is why anti-Zionism is antisemitism.