Fania Oz-Salzberger is an Israeli liberal Zionist on the front lines of the cold/civil war in her country. When we conflate HER Zionism with that of her enemies in the Knesset, we’re being shitheads at best.

Fania Oz-Salzberger is an Israeli liberal Zionist on the front lines of the cold/civil war in her country. When we conflate HER Zionism with that of her enemies in the Knesset, we’re being shitheads at best.

Outsiders (esp us white gentiles) can critique impacts and policies all day long, but but we don’t get to overwrite how the marginalized/targeted/in-group names its own story.

That’s not “no true Scotsman,” that’s basic respect and epistemic humility, no?
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I’m not saying “ignore reality” or wave away failures. I’m saying: when an ideology is bound up with a people’s survival, outsiders can't be the final arbiters of its meaning.

Jews argue fiercely over Zionism. Muslims over “jihad.” Black folks over reclamation of slurs. That’s internal debate.
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No more than *non*-Black or indigenous Americans should dictate what words Black or indigenous Americans use.

No more than *non*-Muslims should define "jihad."

No more than Christian Nationalists should define "Christianity."

No more than straights should regulate LGBTQ spaces.

Thank you for standing in integrity and shining your light. I hope Mamdani seeks to earn your trust instead of pursuing what appears to be his current path.

I *had* a friend who got a postcolonial lit phd. When I implored him to remember we, antifascist gentile white guys shouldn’t be defining Zionism for Jewish people & reminded him Tucker Carlson & Nick Fuentes are also anti-Zionists, he muted me (or blocked me?) from his phone.

I *had* a friend who got a postcolonial lit phd. When I implored him to remember we, antifascist gentile white guys shouldn’t be defining Zionism for Jewish people & reminded him Tucker Carlson & Nick Fuentes are also anti-Zionists, he muted me (or blocked me?) from his phone.

Fairbanks received a Public Policy and Law degree at Arcadia University and has committed to doing a Masters degree in Postcolonial Studies at SOAS University of London

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Fairbanks has a record of unhinged behavior:

▪️Tore down hostage posters with her mother

▪️Claimed to be Jewish while saying the war in Gaza made her cut off her entire ade her cut family (except her mom)

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It's so relevant they went toooo deep and hired a literal Kremlin plant "Red Scare" podcaster woman to act in it.

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