Now it looks like a peaceful civil war is beginning. Naomi Klein is calling for an “exodus from Zionism”. This piece of hers sounds like a call to action.
And Norman Finkelstein is teaching political science again at the college level. A couple days ago there was a picture of him speaking to students on the lawn at Columbia. Young people want to hear him.
With Klein and Finkelstein, the exodus from Zionism already has two strong, articulate leaders.
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Excerpt
As waters rise and forests burn and nothing is certain, we pray at the altar of solidarity and mutual aid, no matter the cost.
We don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name. Freedom from an ideology that has no plan for peace other than deals with murderous theocratic petrostates next door, while selling the technologies of robo-assassinations to the world.
We seek to liberate Judaism from an ethnostate that wants Jews to be perennially afraid, that wants our children to be afraid, that wants us to believe the world is against us so that we go running to its fortress and beneath its iron dome, or at least keep the weapons and donations flowing.
That is the false idol.
And it’s not just Netanyahu, it’s the world he made and that made him – it’s Zionism.
What are we? We, in these streets for months and months, are the exodus. The exodus from Zionism.
And to the Chuck Schumers of this world, we do not say: “Let our people go.”
We say: “We have already gone. And your kids? They’re with us now.”
But still too scared to name the ‘head of the snake’….and as such, he just sits there and laughs at the coward world as the net tightens.