Slavoj Zizek: To End Israel-Gaza War, Jews And Palestinians Should Unite Against WhiteyChris MenahanInformationLiberation Dec. 13, 2023 |
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Zizek wrote Tuesday in Haaretz, "Jews and Palestinians Are Both Victims of Western racism": Today, "Palestine" is a strong symbol. It's a concrete universality that combines opposite meanings: a symbol of all of Europe's colonial sins (the Jews settled in Palestine), and also the place from which antisemitism emerges.Translation: I'm going to sit on the sidelines during this historic conflict and work out a way to blame whitey for everything bad that's happening (and has happened) on all sides. Who knew that Israel's explicitly religious "war of extermination" to "wipe out Amalek" was actually white Europeans' war to advance "colonialism" and "racism?!"
We're truly blessed to have such deep philosophers as Zizek working to make sense of our complex world! [Header image by Mariana Costa via Flickr commons, CC BY 2.0 DEED] Follow InformationLiberation on Twitter, Facebook, Gab, Minds and Telegram. |