At Goatmilk, Sasha Rabkin speaks out against the practice of labeling Jews who oppose the actions of Israel as “self haters”:
The most bellicose of the Zionist establishment has spent considerable time and money creating a mythology of self-hatred. This mythology centers on the conviction that any statement against Israel is a statement against Jews. Thus, like a two-headed monster, dissent against Israel becomes dissent against Jews. Stamped with the moniker of self-hatred, Jews who seek to dislodge themselves from our hijacked spiritual identity, find little room to be Jews. Rather, we are offered an identity centered on racism, military might and occupation. We forfeit, according to the keepers of the self-hatred mythology, our right be Jews.
Self-hatred is a particularly hateful attack amongst Jews. The popular history of Jews is a long history of hatred inflicted by others. Hatred is the Jewish historical thread that links previous generations to now. Jewish history is told as a history of hatred. To label dissenting Jews as Self-Hating is to equate them with the most violent and racist enemies of the Jews. This, of course, is precisely the point.
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