not ch1c<p>I struggle with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chanukah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chanukah</span></a> on a good year. A minor holiday, politicized from its inception, caught up over there in serving nationalism and here in competitive consumerism (maybe they compete with Christmas in Tel Aviv too; I bet they do), but I am absolutely lighting those candles and saying those prayers and frying those latkes and dragging them through the old apple sauce I found in the back of the fridge every night for the next eight nights because I like fire and latkes rock and fuck if I’m going to let zionist genocidaires and their fearful, hateful, brainwashed politically ignorant dupes in the American Jewish so-called mainstream (though numbers suggest otherwise) and the asshole allies of those assholes—a gazillion fash-friendly Christian Zionist cultists who want us all dead—lay claim uncontested to what’s good in my, our, traditions.</p><p>We are inheritors of a nearly two thousand year old cultural system designed to enact, sustain and reproduce community and autonomy without recourse to the inherent violence of hierarchy or the real violence of the state. Jewish practice demands and exalts critical thinking. It celebrates empathy and responsibility. It invites us to shake a fist at authority. And question god. It’s anarchist af. It asks us to heal the world!</p><p>Racist blood-lusting nationalist apartheid colonialism in the name of Judaism is a freak, an oxymoron, ridiculous if it wasn’t so deadly, an embarrassment, irredeemable, a stain, beneath contempt. Israel is a shonda. </p><p>So yeah. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HappyHanukkah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HappyHanukkah</span></a> everyone! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a>. End Netanyahu’s exterminationist forever wars. No quarter for fascists even if you have pics together from the photo booth at your bat mitzvah. And all the love forever to my <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antizionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antizionist</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anticapitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticapitalist</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiauthoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiauthoritarian</span></a> and of course <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifascist</span></a> Jews out there tonight. </p><p>Light the candles. Eat the greasy potatoes. Make this dark corner of the year a little brighter. And let’s remember: as they stand naked in moral failure before the entire population of the planet, as they are marked indelibly by a shame they’ll never be brave enough to see, Jewish Zionists are doing their Judaism wrong too.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IfNotNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IfNotNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NotInMyName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotInMyName</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeverAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeverAgain</span></a> means <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeverAgainForAnyone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeverAgainForAnyone</span></a> ever. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FightFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FightFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FromTheRiverToTheSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FromTheRiverToTheSea</span></a> means whatever Palestinians want it to mean. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndTheGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndTheGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveGaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BDS</span></a> the fuck out of that pathetic little Sparta and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BDSTheUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BDSTheUSA</span></a> too while you’re at it. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntizionismIsNotAntisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntizionismIsNotAntisemitism</span></a>, of course, and, let’s not ever let anyone get it twisted, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ZionismIsNotJudaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZionismIsNotJudaism</span></a>. 🙂🖤🔥</p><p>..and if you have the patience and they’re able, think about watching <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israelism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israelism</span></a> with your fam to help them start deprogramming from the lifetime of lies and bullshit about Israel and its history that American Jews internalize in the course of (in most cases) just earnestly trying to learn about and practice their culture and religion. Unless you want to just give up on them. I think sometimes that’s healthy choices. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TikkunOlam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikkunOlam</span></a></p>