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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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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