Well argued, makes sense to me. I had sort of figured some of it had to do with the genocidal imperialist powers tying it into the false narrative of them beating Nazi Germany, in order to make themselves out as world heroes, but that doesn’t explain what group the narrative focuses on, or the two-faced contradictory nature of them simultaneously collaborating with Nazis and making themselves out as heroes who defeated the Nazis. The area of focus ties neatly into them propping up their genocidal project in Palestine and by limiting it to a narrative of a crime against Jewish people, it also makes it harder for people to intuit it as a problem of marginalization more generally; instead of the takeaway being that genocide is horrible and can happen to any number of peoples, the brushing aside of other victims carries an implication that there’s something unique about Jewish people that would make them such a heavily weighted target of genocide over anyone else (which on reflection, seems a marginalizing narrative even as it acts as if it’s about their safety). And this in spite of the barrage of genocidal actions that colonialism has been doing to various peoples across the world for hundreds of years prior. But if that were the focus of instruction, people in the imperial core would have rejected the narratives on Palestine long ago and perhaps their own governments too. As usual, history begins when they want it to.

Rather than being in strict solidarity with other victims of genocidal action that came before or during, theirs is presented as somehow exceptional and this leaves room to justify a sort of metaphysical(?) position of victimization, something that transcends immediate material comprehension, and so can excuse the demand for an ethnostate, a petri dish for Zionism to form atop the broader social understanding of what Jewish is and take control of it. And we see now the end result, people who believe a tiny “aircraft carrier in the middle east” for a genocidal imperialist power like the US is actually the one pulling the strings of that power, which is nothing short of magical thinking but may be to some extent the other side of the coin of a narrative pushing the idea of exceptional victimization.

Jewish people have suffered greatly and continue to suffer from the narrative of not-fitting inflicted upon them, but so have many other peoples at the hands of imperialist and colonial powers, Palestinians among them, and as the ones who see through it would say, “Not in our name.” Solidarity over exceptionalism and may we see the end of colonialism in our lifetimes.

Every single fucking time.

Communists: We’re giving people basic rights and food and shelter, but we might make some mistakes along the way and we try to acknowledge them where we can.

Anti-Communists: Communists are evil. proceeds to do every fucking horrific thing they can possibly think of and get away with, and blame it on anyone else if it comes to light at all

Communists: Are you fucking kidding me? This is our opposition?

Anti-Communists: Stop being so evil, communists!