cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20133666
By Melanie Goodfellow, Nancy Tartaglione September 7, 2024 12:04pm
““As a Jewish American artist working in a time-based medium, I must note, I’m accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation,” said U.S. director Sarah Friedland as she accepted the Luigi de Laurentiis prize for best first film for Familiar Touch.”
It’s very telling how many Jews internationally are passionately anti-Israel. Kudos to them.
These winners are humanitarian and anti-genocide. If Israel gets a sane, non-racist government, then I think most reasonable people wouldn’t criticize Israel, and certainly would support any actions it needs to defend itself. The reality is that there are people who are both anti-Semitic and want Israel to cease to exist for racist reasons. Most people who are anti-genocide are not such people.
If Israel gets a sane, non-racist government
If Israel was run by a sane, non-racist government we would never have had Israel to begin with. People would have recognized how immoral the whole founding of the country is and stopped right then and there.
Zionism doesn’t encompass all Jews. The anti-Israel Jews aren’t necessarily anti-Israel because of the current war or the historical mistreatment and oppression of Palestinians (which are VERY good reasons to dislike Israel as well). They’re anti-Israel because they recognize that Zionism is nothing more than a nationalistic ideal with little to no basis on their faith. The person in this article says as much herself:
As a Jewish American artist working in a time-based medium, I must note, I’m accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation
It’s not just the war she disagrees with. It’s the existence and justification of Israel as well.
Good for her.
