What Difference Does It Make if You’re a Jew, if You’re Still a Slave to the System?
On Zionism, Palestine, and the liberation of humanity
Growing up, I used to believe that Zionism liberated me and my people. I finally had a passport, a national anthem, and a land to call my own.
In reality, I still had to wake up, sell my life force to a market matrix, and buy my right to exist. The weight of the landlord, the cost-of-living crisis, the commercialization of health, and the extraction of energy didn’t change just because the state said it was Jewish.
I realized it didn’t matter if I lived in Israel as a Jew if I was still a slave to the same system. I traded my political emancipation for a false sense of security, and didn’t ask myself what that truly cost.
I had used my tribal identity to sanitize and institutionalize a standard corporate-state model. I used my foundational cultural narrative forged in explicit resistance to imperial slavery and helped build a modern political apparatus where extraction, rather than human life, dictated human worth.
Because this state was constructed inside this global matrix, it could never deliver actual liberation to anybody.
When an identity assumes the form of a modern capitalist nation-state, it needs to protect its capital, infrastructure, and monopolies using the traditional tools of empire. To maintain its own stability and access to resources, it needs to structurally produce an outsider. It needs to construct walls, enforce a brutal legal hierarchy, and turn another population into a dispossessed underclass just to keep its own gears turning.
This is why true liberation can never be achieved through tribal, localized, or nationalist fragmentation. Seeking the emancipation of one specific group while leaving them and others trapped within the global grid of economic extraction is an illusion.
The Palestinian struggle exposed this.
The same cage that we are all trapped in is the same cage that runs the occupation.
This is why the liberation of Palestine is the liberation of humanity.
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Why would Jews, educated, informed, sane Jews ever believe that their religion alone, among all others, magically made a people with a right to self determination?
Logic would say if Jews could claim land where some Jews once lived then so could any religion. Muslims could claim India and Spain which they ruled for 600 years, and much of Europe. Christians could claim Istanbul and much of Turkey which they ruled for a thousand years. Of course they cannot and neither can Jews.
It says a lot about the elitist and supremacist nature of Judaism that most Jews, not all, but most, believe they are exceptional and have a right which no other religion can claim.
I mean, if Jews can claim Palestine in violent genocide because some Jews lived there long ago then Palestinian Muslims and Christians have an even greater right to claim their 5000 year old homeland in violent genocide against anyone who is not a Muslim or Christian. Of course Palestinians are too sane and civilized for that but surely it is time for Jews to understand that what they do to others can be done to them and justifiably so.
Although that would require a high level of intellect and capacity for reason.
Very good! 👏
Thank you!!
I've said it before, that I don't mean to take away from your piece by sharing a personal example, but I usually seem to find a similar
narrative in my story most every time. This is another of those times!
(Growing up, I too thought I was liberated living in the States. I certainly derived pride from it aka patriotism. 🤮 I was told that this country was the best, freeest, richest, strongest, most compassionate ....... until I started to see that it wasn't/isn't. I started to come undone, needing to examine (and dismantle) most everything I knew and was.
Continuing attitude adjustment occurring even now. 🤔)
Most of us are in the matrix, just different location. Hopefully more are realizing that it's not a good place to be.