Lauren W. she/they: Two things: 1) Oppression isn't a zero sum game. Palestinians experiencing it doesn't take away from the ways the Jewish people experience. 2) You can be both oppressed and an oppressor at the same time. They aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, it happens all the time.

Just an outsider but it seems superduper fucked up that progressive Jewish folks who support Palestinian liberation are having their Jewish credentials called into question by Zionists (both Jewish and gentile). Seems antisemitic as fuck to me.

I've been more seeing the opposite. Seeing a lot more Jewish progressives having their progressive credentials called into question for supporting Israel.

That's because supporting the oppressed is a progressive value and progressivism doesn't exist outside its value system.

Jews aren't oppressed?

Two things: 1) Oppression isn't a zero sum game. Palestinians experiencing it doesn't take away from the ways the Jewish people experience. 2) You can be both oppressed and an oppressor at the same time. They aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, it happens all the time.

I agree.

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