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I will also add that it is such a false equivalent to pitch the occupation as a Jewish vs Muslim issue. There are Jewish and Christian Arabs who are also fighting for survival in this. The author wants to acknowledge the wrong that happened by normalising it in the history of colonialism - I don't plan on normalising any of our modern settler-colonial states. May it be the USA, Brazil, Israel or China - why should any of us be okay with any form of genocide? ________________________________ From: A forum for critical and radical geographers <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of ashok kumar <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2023 3:44:46 PM To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination It’s stomach-churning to define Zionism as a desire for a Jewish homeland without acknowledging what Zionism means for Palestinians who are killed everyday in the pursuit of that desire. Ask a Palestinian what Zionism means and they’ll tell you it’s 70+ years of brutal dispossession and ethnic cleansing. To the author of the silly book that was circulated on this list, it’s not a “conflict” it’s an occupation. On 22 May 2023, at 15:30, Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Interesting topic. This could be widened out to examine the conflation between Zionism (= a political desire by some Jews to have a nation-state) and Judaism (= a religion and/or ethnic grouping, except you can be of the Jewish religion without being ethnically Jewish, or you can be of Jewish ancestry and not be of the Jewish religion). And of course there are anti-Zionist Jews (I don;t think you could have anti-Semitic Zionists though). And there are two kinds of Zionism, the sort that goes right back to the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 CE, and the sort that orginated in late 19c Europe as a result of general anti Semitism, which latter sort received a massive boost after the WW2 Holocaust, but also has origins in the British Palestine Mandate post 1918, and indeed the with-hindsight bad decision by Ottoman Turkey to side with Germany in 1914, although the Allies must take some blame for this as they rebiuffed Tiurkey which otherwise might have been on the Allied side, leaving the Ottoman empire intact in 1918 (and where would THAT have led to ??). Many previously-oppressed groups have., once the oppression ends and they achieve equality, then gone on to seek an even stronger position, as insurance against the past oppression they suffered, understandably. What is rare is for a previously-oppressed group to actually achieve a nation-state, still less one that was carved out of the territory of earlier enemies, thanks perfidious Britain and your WW1 double promise to Arabs and Jews re Palestine (and how did the Jews and Muslims come to be enemies, when once, in mediaeval Europe, they were allies against Christendom, where Christians saw the two as similar and many Jews felt safer in Islamic lands than in Christian ones, like Spain in the times of Reconquista). In fact many Arab Muslim lands had substantial Jewish populations until the 1960s or even 70s. A tangled set of concepts indeed. https://www.fpri.org/article/2015/01/origins-and-evolution-of-zionism/ Dr Hillary J Shaw Centre for Urban Research on Austerity Faculty of Business and Law De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH http://dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/business-and-law/hilary-shaw/hillary-shaw.aspx www.fooddeserts.org<http://www.fooddeserts.org/> -----Original Message----- From: Dr Camila Bassi <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Mon, 22 May 2023 14:28 Subject: Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination My online book launch (6pm-7:15pm BST 15th June 2023) might be of interest to some. **The Eventbrite booking link is at the bottom.** Thanks, Camila Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination Outcast is an explanation of how Jewish people’s experiences of racism have been cast out of the anti-racist imagination, as the very possibility of recognising anti-Jewish racism has been displaced by the commonplace leftist belief that when Jewish people cry ‘antisemitism!’, their surreptitious intent is to cover up the real racism propagated by Israel against the Palestinians. How this has happened lies both in an academic framework for the study of racism that confines racism to a colonial phenomenon of ‘white over black’ domination, and in the antisemitic idea of ‘the Jewish question’: that something must be done about the harm which Jews pose to humanity. Outcast shows that when both are translated into an understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Zionism and all associated Jews become the representation of racism incarnate demanding the unprecedented wipe out of Israel. As a route forward, this book demonstrates that when the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is analysed through the wider historical context of European antisemitism, colonialism and nationalism, and free from ‘the Jewish question’, the racist and colonial dimensions of Israel are comprehended but not as an exceptional aberration and an outstanding stain on humanity. Escaping the confines of identity politics, including ‘racial’ identity politics, based on the idea that there are intrinsic differences dividing and excluding humanity, Outcast makes the case for a genuinely universal politics of human liberation. “Through a forensic and detailed excavation, Bassi illustrates the subtle and insidious ways antisemitic tropes, presumptions and fallacies continue to creep into a wide range of academic arguments and left-wing political policies. Singular in its willingness to swim against the currents of so many contemporary political tides, this is a substantive academic work that should stimulate academic debate far beyond its immediate subject matter.” (Dr Mitch Rose, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Aberystwyth University) “Outcast makes an original and unusually valuable contribution to the existing literature on contemporary Left antisemitism. This compelling book, drawing as it does on direct experience as well as on key scholarly work, provides a searching analysis which also demonstrates some welcome hope of redemption.” (Lesley Klaff, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism) To book a place at the online book launch, see Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outcast-online-book-lanch-tickets-629847750577?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CRIT-GEOG-FORUM, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CRIT-GEOG-FORUM, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/