I have come to have tremendous disdain for my people, the evil we have wrought, and the demons we have become. Our craven hypocrisy, our holocaust handwringing, our selfish dissociation, our bottomless both-sidesing, our catatonic inaction, our feeble sign-waving, our condescending condemnations, our wallowing victim complex, our self-indulgent betrayals, our brazen self-centeredness, our exploitative careerism, our blood and soil racism, our liberal cowardice, our mountains of empty platitudes amongst mountains of Palestinian corpses that we annihilated in cold blood. Israel has likely killed hundreds of thousands of people in two and half years of non-stop bombardment, executions, and engineered starvation in Gaza. The depths of our sadism seemingly knows no bounds.

Of our own volition, Jewish people crowned Zionism a central pillar of modern Judaism and fashioned Israel into our new God. A hyper-militarized golden calf for an increasingly faithless people seeking a seat in the World of the Above (white supremacy, settlerhood, nation-building, power within Euro-Amerikan empire). We seamlessly integrated Israel and Zionism into every facet of Jewish life globally: Zionism has no borders. Israel has not become fascistic vis-à-vis Netanyahu and the Likud party, rather Israel is innately fascistic because of its settler-colonial structure - same applies to Trump and the Amerikan crusading settler-colony, Israel’s blueprint, as Dr. Mohamed Abdou articulates in Islam and Anarchism. Amerika and Israel are both irreformable and irredeemable, built out of the world established in 1492, entities erected by genocidal settlers atop mass Indigenous graves.

Almost half of the global Jewish population (~46%) are Israeli settler-squatters: They overwhelmingly support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza (82%) and the current US-Israel war on Iran (93%). Most of the rest of us live as privileged white settlers in colonies like so-called Amerika (41% of Jews). Those of us living in settler-colonies outside of Israel also neglect our responsibilities as settlers toward Indigenous Land Back and Black self-determination movements where we are; On Turtle Island, Black and Indigenous genocides have persisted for 533 years and counting.

When I state that virtually all Jews and Jewish formations are Zionist, I am including most of the very small number of Jews and Jewish organizations who self-identify as “anti-zionist” or “pro-Palestine.” Scratch the surface and you’ll find quickly that most are liberal Zionists, as Lara Kilani and the team at Good Shepherd Collective frequently note. All Jews who claim “non-zionism” are Zionist in their politics because they always disparage the resistance and conflate colonizer with colonized (ex. “We condemn both violence by Hamas and violence by Israel” or “A co-existent future on the land for both Palestinians and Israelis/Jews”).

Jews in Euro-Amerika send their kids to synagogues, summer camps, and Jewish schools - all Zionist - ultimately teaching them bald-faced lies about Israel (“a land without a people for a people without a land” “we made the desert bloom”), celebrating “Israel’s birthday” (The Nakba) and preparing our Jewish children to one day become Zionist settlers and soldiers themselves or to defend the Jewish state from wherever they are, as part of their Jewish identity and duty.

Clearly, Jewish people only assert our Jewish collectivity when we view ourselves as heroes or victims, or with the comfortable distance of history; not when we need to take responsibility and reckon with our role as fascists in the present cataclysmic moment. Through Zionism, we bear witness to what happens when those romanticized and utopic concepts of Jewish collectivity are abusively warped toward an exceptionalism and Jewish supremacist tribalism for Euro-Amerikan imperial aims.

I also reject the framing of “Israel makes Jews unsafe/increases antisemitism” because: (1) we’re the oppressors in the context of Israel, not the victims; (2) this framing abdicates Jewish responsibility because ‘Israel’ is not an amorphous self-animating thing that merely hovers over us, it is a colony that we as Jews actively build and sustain daily through concerted generational effort; (3) that’s not “antisemitism” it’s a reaction to Jewish-led genocide which all our institutions support; (4) you’re conceding to the propaganda that there is a “rise in antisemitism” when Jews currently do not face systemic oppression for being Jewish and the “antisemitic incidents” data is tracked such that every anti-zionist protest sign is clocked as a separate “antisemitic incident” by the ADL so; (5) enough with the Jewish victimhood, “Jewish safety” and “antisemitism” talk, it’s just a distraction from Jewish-perpetrated genocide of Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims.

If Jews cared about justice and embodied the spirit of our own ancestors who fought fascism, we would see Jews tearing down and burning their congregation’s Israeli flags, ejecting racist genocidal Rabbis from the Bima and synagogues, demanding that temples cut all ties to the death colony, instigating revolution within the faith to cut out the Zionist cancer. We would have been selfless and given our lives to Palestinians and the resistance in the entity, we would have engaged in treason against modern Judaism and committed open sedition against any long forsaken notion of a “collective people,” that ceased to exist over the past 100 years, let alone since the blessed Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th, 2023. If Jews had a speck of morality, we would be seeing a raging split and battle inside Judaism. None of this righteousness exists. And the genocide rages on.

Enough of our platforming and sponsored posts, our self-righteous interviews on being doxxed or fired for Palestine while Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims suffer a much worse fate for speaking truth. Enough of our vapid liberal influencer class, our careerism, our wasteful pointless electoralism, and our self-congratulatory book deals that come at the expense of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims’ flesh, skin and organs being harvested and vaporized with no identification or trail underneath concrete rubble. We as Jews are not special, and frankly “Jewish support” is often damaging in its liberal, orientalist defanging of the Palestinian struggle, regardless of one’s intentions.

As journalist Laith Marouf often remarks, ‘the loudest Jewish voice today is genocide.’ He rightly advocates for Jews to battle against Zionism within our own communities, and to sacrifice beyond polemics, in a material way like Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims have since the inception of Zionism. They have lost generations and entire family lineages as they throw sand in the gears of Zionism’s unending death machine. Laith Marouf notes how there is no meaningful resistance from anti-zionist Jews fighting Jewish Zionism like there was, for instance, amongst anti-fascist Germans fighting Nazism. He asks for our consideration, “Where is the Jewish John Brown?” “Where is the Jewish Oskar Schindler?” and remarks upon how in the over a century of the Zionist project, not one Jewish person has died for the cause of Palestinian liberation. So why should Laith or any other Palestinian be expected to not conflate Judaism and Zionism, when we as Jews don’t care enough to fight and sacrifice for the separation ourselves? They shouldn’t. Palestinians owe us nothing, we owe Palestine an infinite unpayable debt that continues to rack up every single moment of every single day.