A-Infos (en) Italy, UCAD'I #184 - What's new - ANTISEMITISM (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The re-explosion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the horrors 
committed, both with the terrorist attack of 7 October and with the 
genocide of the population of Gaza, have reignited the discussion and 
debate on anti-Semitism as the basis of hostility towards the Jewish 
population in world. Playing on the sense of guilt of the West and of 
all humanity for the Shoah, made possible by complicity and quiescence, 
by anti-Semitism rooted in the history of humanity, Israel has conducted 
and continues its policy of extermination towards the population 
indigenous to Palestine, claiming a moral justification that derives 
from the retaliation following the terrorist action perpetrated with 
unprecedented ferocity and in defense of its right to exist.
However, what is happening deserves, especially for us anarchist 
communists, careful reflection that allows for a thoughtful reading of 
history, in order to get rid of a set of misunderstandings that prevent 
us from tackling the problem of the coexistence of two people with 
rationality and the possibility of a solution. people on the same territory.
Let us begin our considerations first of all by clarifying that the 
terms we use derive from the Bible, which for us non-believers is not a 
sacred book, but simply the diary of the history of a people, created 
through the transcription of oral history handed down by tradition. The 
stories concerning Noah and his sons Shem, Ham and Japet who, after the 
universal flood, spread across the known world, repopulating it, 
therefore take on mythical contours. The descendants of Shem Egypt, 
Palestine, Arabia and the territories of the Assyro-Babylonians; the 
descendants of Ham would have populated Africa and those of Japet Europe 
and Asia.
We, strengthened by the anthropological knowledge acquired by science, 
do not share creationism (the biblical narrative) and are inclined to 
think that men and women were born from a biological process that began 
with the evolution of the species and had more focus than mix of genes 
that have crossed paths with each other. Proof of this is the discovery 
of humanoid and then human skeletons in Africa as in China, as in Europe 
as in the Americas, skeletons of ancestors of the human race who, 
through a process of migrations and encounters, merged to form the 
populations that currently populate the planet.
But returning to the biblical story, the populations descended from Shem 
occupied the areas of the Middle East and therefore both the 
Palestinians and the Jews are to be defined as Semites, unless one 
believes that the Jewish tribes would have remained pure and distinct 
through descent. exclusively from Jewish mothers (sic!), and in any case 
they descend from the same father. It follows that when we support the 
reasons of the Palestinian people we are not anti-Semitic, but critical 
of a particular form of Judaism, personified by Zionism, which 
constitutes the nationalist, ethnic and identity reading of the history 
of the Jewish people.
Our opposition to nationalism, in any disguised form, leads us to 
condemn without delay and with determination every pogrom that has had 
or has as its recipients Jewish populations or any other ethnic group 
and pushes us to consider all men and women as brothers and sisters. 
women, without distinction of race, sex, ethnicity, language, religion 
and anything else that may differentiate them by somatic features, skin 
color, gender, ethical, moral and religious beliefs.
We have fully expressed our opinion on Zionism as a political movement 
and the historical events that led to the birth of the State of Israel 
and we refer to that document, avoiding repeating ourselves.[1]
We therefore consider it a right of Jews in the world to cultivate their 
beliefs, their tradition, their customs, eating habits, and anything 
else, in their opinion, distinguishes them and characterizes them 
compared to the rest of the world's population, but we consider the Jews 
are absolutely equal in rights and obligations towards the whole of 
humanity and therefore
we cannot accept that following the events we know well and a war 
transformed into a struggle for extermination on both sides we continue 
to perpetrate a genocide using the systematic and planned starvation of 
an entire population as a weapon in order to bring about its extinction. 
The bombings and the repressive action carried out against the terrorist 
component of Hamas have surpassed any right to defense which cannot lead 
to the annihilation of an entire population. Taking on the pain of 
humanity and the shame of having allowed the Shoah and therefore the 
systematic and scientific planning of the destruction of a people and an 
ethnic group cannot go so far as to allow us to do the same towards 
other peoples, because everyone has an equal right to live in freedom 
and well-being and to believe that, unfortunately, the genocide is not 
exclusive to the Jewish people, as history has shown, just remember that 
of the Armenians and the Kurds.

[1]Union of Anarchist Communists, Anarchist communists, the Jewish and 
Palestinian questions , Political Growth Newsletter, N° 178 - November 
2023 (Special Issue), https://www.ucadi.org/wp-content/uploads/ 
2023/11/178.pdf .

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/04/25/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-antisemitismo/
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