You have been supportive of the Jewish people from the start, and haven't wavered. If anything your resolve has firmed and grown stronger. Hakarot ha'tov!
I was one of those Jewish SJWs who had several rude awakenings in the days following Oct 7. What I'm noticing is that many other progressives who (re)discovered Zionism haven't unpacked their political beliefs as thoroughly as I felt compelled to. Now, with the return of Trump, there's a falling back into the old scripts of "systemic oppression," fight the patriarchy, oppressed as inherently virtuous, and so on - even though these are the same things that have been turned against Jews.
I'm trying to take a longer view and see how some things play out. Ultimately, people like you and I don't have much control over what happens in Washington or Jerusalem or Gaza, so we might want to hold some of our ideas loosely when it comes to such a dynamic and unpredictable mess.
Great essay, April. Especially the part about pause and paws. Everyone from the top down should take pause and find paws…
You have been supportive of the Jewish people from the start, and haven't wavered. If anything your resolve has firmed and grown stronger. Hakarot ha'tov!
I was one of those Jewish SJWs who had several rude awakenings in the days following Oct 7. What I'm noticing is that many other progressives who (re)discovered Zionism haven't unpacked their political beliefs as thoroughly as I felt compelled to. Now, with the return of Trump, there's a falling back into the old scripts of "systemic oppression," fight the patriarchy, oppressed as inherently virtuous, and so on - even though these are the same things that have been turned against Jews.
I'm trying to take a longer view and see how some things play out. Ultimately, people like you and I don't have much control over what happens in Washington or Jerusalem or Gaza, so we might want to hold some of our ideas loosely when it comes to such a dynamic and unpredictable mess.