Re: [Marxism] Zionism - or Jewish chauvinism?

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:58:57 -0400, M. Junaid Alam wrote:

  Implicitly against the explanation given by Nestor Gorojovsky in his 
message "Who created Israel?":  

> Remember that *this* is the environment in which many far removed from 
> Palestine are asking Palestinians to make "distinctions" between Jews 
> and Zionists - and are in fact demanding the distinction as a 
> condition of their (meaningless in practical terms) support. 

  This distinction would be the distinction between Jews as a people on 
the one hand, and Zionism as a political movement whose adherants are 
both Jews and non-Jews. Such a distinction MUST be made. 

  There is another dividing line. 

> One in which not only the state that casts itself 
> as the banner flag of all Jewry directly 
> oppresses them, but also one in which most Jewish writers, thinkers, 
> intellectuals, and other noteworthy figures inside and outside Israel 
> oblige this calling. 

   Well, but Jews in New York or Berlin or Moscow or Buenos Aires are 
actually separate from the Jews as the dominating nationality in the 
state of Israel. May I recall that the "nationality" which is marked on 
the Israeli ID card cannot be "Israeli", but only "Jew", or "Muslim", 
"Druse", "Catholic", maybe "Arab". 

   This, the Jewish settler community is the oppressor nationality in 
Palestine, and even if the state of Israel tries to capture all Jews in 
the world, in many cases against their will, the Jews living in Buenos 
Aires, Moscow, Berlin or New York are not part of that, even if they 
give ideological support to the colonial settler state in Palestine. 

   Analogous to the White or more specifically Burish nationality in 
South Africa which had been the oppressor nation there, and not those 
political supporters of them in London, Paris or Washington. 

> The starting point for 99% of the "opposition" to 
> Israel is still embedded in the principle of Jewish chauvinism. 

   When creating a wider unit of oppressors, and their ideological 
heaven, it is not "world Jewry", it is not a case of "Jewish 
chauvinism", but of "White Master Race" chauvinism and racism. This is 
what the colonial settler state in Palestine has resp. had in common 
with Apartheid South Africa, with "Algérie Française", Australia, Canada 
or the United States, to name a few other colonial settler states. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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