{"id":4217,"date":"2014-07-24T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2014\/07\/24\/we-are-history\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:23:00","slug":"we-are-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2014\/07\/24\/we-are-history\/","title":{"rendered":"we are history"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza intensifies, it is not anti-Semitic to say: not in my name<\/a>, by Laurie Penny<\/a>, (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

It is not anti-Semitic to suggest that Israel doesn\u2019t get a free pass to kill whoever it likes in order to feel \u201csafe\u201d. It is not anti-Semitic to point out that if what Israel needs to feel \u201csafe\u201d is to pen the Palestinian people in an open prison under military occupation, the state\u2019s definition of safety might warrant some unpacking. And it is not anti-Semitic to say that this so-called war is one in which only one side actually has an army. […]<\/p>\n

Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children around the world marched to express their disgust at Israel\u2019s air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, and among them were swathes of Jews and Israelis. This is one of the few situations in which it makes a difference to stand up and say: not in our name. Not now, not ever again. Being Jewish, or having Jewish roots, doesn\u2019t make you responsible for what is happening in Gaza, but it does mean that your dissent carries that much more weight. Not more weight than the grieving relatives of the families butchered in Shejaiya, but the kind of weight that hangs heavy on the heart, and that comes with the small but palpable risk of upsetting your family.<\/p>\n

So here it is. I think my ancestors who were persecuted, tormented and exiled down the centuries for being Jews would be horrified to see what is being done in their name today.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza intensifies, it is not anti-Semitic to say: not in my name, by Laurie Penny, (emphasis mine): It is not anti-Semitic to suggest that Israel doesn\u2019t get a free pass to kill whoever it likes in order to feel \u201csafe\u201d. It is not anti-Semitic to point out that if what Israel … Continue reading “we are history”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[378,106,271],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}