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Zionism and Israel is sold to Jews and the world like it’s a solution, it’s our salvation, it’s our ‘just in case’ that Jews ‘need’ it. The reality is Israel is nothing more than a larger Pale of Settlement. A bigger Jewish ghetto. Israel prevented Jews returning to Europe after the Shoah, which enabled Europe to not have to provide restitution to survivors. It meant they got rid of more Jews, even from UK & America & Russia - the Allies - permanently. It serves antisemitism.
The less people interact with us, know us, and we don’t interact with others, the more dangerous the world is for us, the more we are seen as strange.
I worked for a Jewish educator who told me they pride themselves on doing the rituals & burdens as these things distinguish us, “set us apart” as if that were a good thing. Our disconnection is made prideful. Vanity.
In my opinion, just being vocal without prejudice, standing up for righteousness without regard for the self, or for merit, is what automatically sets a person apart in the world. We are hated and despised for speaking truth without fear, standing in faith.
It’s not the rituals you do or the sacrifices you make no one gives a fuck about because it makes no real difference in the world. It’s the mercy. It’s the love you give, even to a stranger. It’s the oneness of God you are to recognize.
I hate feeling so separate & apart in the world. All it means are so many are persistent in desiring & maintaining injustice, unapologetically unwilling to do the right thing. It does not make me proud, or feel saved or safe. It makes me feel sad. It makes me feel useless. It makes me sometimes despair. But God lifts me up bc of how mankind set me aside and apart to continue in their evil without accountability.
I am very clear to God, because of how much I’ve been set aside. I am an obvious standout as well as a target.
God has treasured me as we are One.
And I live my life this way because I believe with all my heart that’s what true love is and I choose true love as the most beautiful way. It certainly hasn’t paid in dollar bills, and it’s been brutal, but it has also given me gifts money can’t buy.
Not the least of which is my integrity.
The world rejected & trashed me.
God treasured me.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.