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Nicole
I am continually disappointed by the Zionist opinion pieces Queen’s Journal publishes. No ethnic group inherently has a right to statehood, and Israel certainly does not have the right to commit genocide against over 10,000 Palestinans. It is such a false flag to focus on anti-Semitism right now when Palestinan children are being bombed and killed. As an actual person of colour who faces racism today, focusing on historical definitions of whiteness that excluded Jews is missing the point completely. Obviously anti-Semitism exists and is abhorrent, but it’s not the issue at hand. I am disgusted by the attempt to gain proximity to being racialized by those featured in this article. Trying to pretend that this is an issue of race undermines the point you’re trying to make about religious and ethnic discrimination. You can be Jewish and benefit from white supremacy — these are not exclusive of each other and I wish that there was room in this article for that nuance.
To demonize Hamas for the October 7 attacks without acknowledging that the vast majority of Hamas insurgents are themselves orphans as a result of long-standing murder campaigns by the IDF is incredibly one-sided. And to pretend that the death toll of Israelis even compares to the number of Palestians killed (let alone forced to live starving, corralled into the Gaza strip without water and Internet access) is disingenuous to the point of delusion. Israel is intentionally targeting Palestinan journalists and activists to silence them, directing them to supposed safe zones and then bombing them in their homes. Palestians babies are dying as they are being born because the IDF targets hospitals. Call the IDF what it is: a colonial institution intending to ethnically cleanse Palestinans. “Israel” is nothing less than an apartheid state and it’s time we it it.