I feel like criticizing Jews who are antizionist for using their identity to oppose “iϟϟntreal”'s genocide in Palestine is stupid and counterproductive.   I’ve seen people where I am criticize white people for leading protests and being on the front line like “why isn’t this led by a woman of color?  Why isn’t this led by the most marginalized groups?  What’s with this white saviorism?”  And my counter to that response is that we literally want the white people to be our shields because they often have more resources and are at lower risk than we are if we’re leading.  As long as they listen to us instead of telling us what to do, I’m delighted to have them be the tip of the spear.  If they get arrested, they’re not worried about ICE going after their immigrant parents – but I have to worry about that.

Jews who are antizionists offer themselves up as allies, accomplices, support, shields against hasbara, and they do offer something that non-jews cannot which is the weaponization of that identity for the right cause.  It’s absurd to accuse them of perpetuating jewish exceptionalism.  That exceptionalism has already been imposed from outside, and they are weaponizing that exceptionalism in support of Palestine!  Is a white person who goes and throws rocks at cops for murdering a black man perpetuating white supremacy?!

Also lol @ BadEmpanada saying that it’s ethnosupremacist to have solidarity with someone of a different ethnic group but the same religion in another country.  Has this guy never spoken with a Muslim before?  Has he never heard of the Ummah?  Because at least how I was raised I got that internationalist solidaristic education.  I immediately bristled at that.  By his reasoning my solidarity with Palestine when I was a religious child was ethnosupremacist.  Fuck this guy.

More broadly though, because I don’t care too much about interrogating any one thing Bad Empanada says:  He comes off as a clout chaser who cares primarily about seeming to be the most radical person in the room.  Is he a rad-lib?  Is he an ultra?  I don’t know.  I saw something from him about Ukraine some time ago where he was basically criticizing anyone who points out Nato’s role in provoking and prolonging that war.  He’s been weird about trans people.  I don’t think he’s very smart.  I don’t think he’s very principled.  I kind of wish we’d just ban his content the way /r/shitliberalssay had a Vaush bot that brought up a list of terrible and gross things Vaush said anytime he was mentioned (that bot is the only reason I even have passing knowledge of who he is!) but I think he needs to drop some more cancellable evidence first.  Sometimes he says cool and correct things (for example I did enjoy listening to him shit-talk his fellow “breadtube” denizen KKKontraPointϟϟ when she pinkwashed genocide), but he does not have to be the source for those and I think he himself is an asshole with bad analytical skills who is more of a hindrance than an asset to the broad coalition of political ideologies known as “the Left”.  From what I have read of others, his videos have tended to be better while his Twitter presence has tended to be worse, but I get the impression whatever rot is going on from his Twitter presence is leaking into his videos more and more too.