{"id":1182,"date":"2021-03-03T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2021-03-03T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:11:52","slug":"come-for-one-of-us-come-for-us-all-anticolonialist-jews-to-g-w-goldnadel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Come for one of us, come for us all!: Anticolonialist Jews to G.W. Goldnadel"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has come to our attention that the French-Israeli lawyer, G.W. Goldnadel, has threatened to take the decolonial activist Houria Bouteldja to court for having written \u2018it is not possible to be innocently Israeli\u2019 in a text condemning antisemitism and discussing how it is produced and spread. Some interpreted this as fallacious and others incorrectly deemed it to be essentialising. From the vantage point of the anticolonial literary and political tradition, the application of this expression to Israelis has nothing to do with any ethnic or religious essence but is produced by collective social and power relations. As anticolonialist Jews of different nationalities, including Israeli, we agree with Bouteldja\u2019s words which speak for us as it did for several generations of anticolonialists before us. It is because one cannot be innocently Israeli that Avraham Burg requested that the record of his Jewish nationality be effaced from the national registry of the State of Israel after the passage of the Nation-State Law.[1]<\/a> It is because one cannot be innocently Israeli that brave Israeli citizens struggle against the colonial politics of the state and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. It is because no one can innocently accept the reality of colonialism that sixty young Israelis have just refused to serve in the occupying army.[2]<\/a> It is because it is impossible to be innocently Israeli that the human rights organisation, B\u2019Tselem, recently denounced Israel\u2019s \u2018regime of Jewish supremacy\u2019 and Apartheid.[3]<\/a> As the Tunisian Jewish writer Albert Memmi wrote, \u2018the colonial reality is not a pure idea: it is an ensemble of real-life conditions. Refusing to see this means either physically surrendering to these conditions or fighting to transform them.\u2019 The responsibility of Israelis in Palestine in the face of this colonial reality is obvious to the anticolonial activists there who bear witness to the fact that neither it nor the murderous identities it produces can be overlooked. Committed to freedom, this responsibility paves the way to the dignity that each human being aspires to. In a world drifting ever further into more authoritarian and inequitable rule, the fight for dignity comes at an increasingly higher cost. The rancid atmosphere that has been created powerfully penetrates a growing number of political schools and media organisations. The campaigns of intimidation and defamation such as those targeting Houria Bouteldja should be alarming to anyone worried about the retreat of democracy. The tactics of censuring an activist they wish to silence and of isolating and discrediting her, both within and beyond the public sphere, reminds us of those of our antisemitic oppressors. These are the methods of those brown-shirted forces of tragic years past. The onslaughts they wage in the media leave no one out, including members of the French Union of Jews for Peace, who they call \u2018shameful Jews\u2019 and who they try to have excluded from public debate. We French, Israeli, Belgian, US-American, British, Australian, and North African Jews, walking in the footsteps of the warriors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, of the workers\u2019 movement, of the European Resistance fighters, or of the struggle for anticolonial liberation reject these cabals who, in the name of defeating antisemitism, are in fact involved in obscuring its understanding as a form of racism. Instead they generate an antisemitic amalgamation of Jews and Israelis. It is because the decolonial movement takes the fight again antisemitism seriously, without disconnecting it from the anticolonial struggle, that it is denounced today by the biggest reactionaries in the French political sphere. But it is for this very reason that the decolonial movement is a part of our family and vice versa. We therefore demand that, if G.W. Goldnadel wish to pursue any legal proceedings against Houria Bouteldja that he come for us as well.<\/p>\n

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Gil Anidjar<\/strong>, professeur, Columbia University, New York \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Simon Assoun<\/strong>, militant antiraciste, \u00e9ducateur sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 \/ France<\/p>\n

Ariella Azoulay<\/strong>, Professor of Modern Culture & Media and Comparative Literature \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Rudi Barnet<\/strong>, metteur en sc\u00e8ne, cr\u00e9ateur de \u00abUne Saison au Congo\u00bb de Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire en 1967 et du festival \u201c50\u00e8me Droits!\u201d\u00a0\/ Belgique<\/p>\n

Haim Bresheeth<\/strong>, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London \/ Isra\u00e9lien, Royaume-Uni<\/p>\n

Rivkah Brown<\/strong>, Vashti Media, London \/ Royaume-Uni<\/p>\n

James Cohen<\/strong>, professeur d\u2019universit\u00e9, \/France<\/p>\n

Laurent Cohen<\/strong>, Ijan \/ Espagne<\/p>\n

Liliane Cordova Kaczerginski<\/strong>, Ijan \/ Espagne<\/p>\n

Jordy Cummings<\/strong>, lecturer and Trade Unionist,\u00a0 York University \/ Canada<\/p>\n

Sonia Fayman<\/strong>, UJFP \/ France<\/p>\n

Caroline Gay<\/strong>, com\u00e9dienne \/ France<\/p>\n

Henri Goldman \/ <\/strong>Belgique<\/p>\n

Jean-Guy Greilsamer<\/strong>, UJFP, issu d\u2019une famille victime des nazis et de la collaboration \/ France<\/p>\n

Ramon Grosfoguel<\/strong>, professeur d\u2019universit\u00e9 \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Georges Gumpel<\/strong>, Militant anticolonialiste, Partie Civile au proc\u00e8s de Klaus Barbie \/ France<\/p>\n

Gabriel Hagai<\/strong>, Rabbin \/ Isra\u00e9lien, France<\/p>\n

Aaron Jaffe<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Arts, The Juilliard School, New York \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Sara Kershnar<\/strong>. Coordinatrice internationale de IJAN<\/p>\n

David Landy<\/strong>, Trinity College Dublin \/ Irlande<\/p>\n

Ronit Lentin<\/strong>, Trinity College Dublin (retired) \/ Isra\u00e9lienne, Irlande<\/p>\n

Alana Lentin<\/strong>, universitaire \/ Australie<\/p>\n

Zachary Levenson<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Les Levidow<\/strong>, Senior Research Fellow, Open University \/ Royaume-Uni<\/p>\n

Daniel Levyne<\/strong>, UJFP \/ France<\/p>\n

Yosefa Loshitzky<\/strong>, SOAS University of London \/ Isra\u00e9lien, Royaume-Uni<\/p>\n

Jo\u00eblle Marelli<\/strong>, traductrice \/ France<\/p>\n

Anat Matar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jean-Claude Meyer<\/strong>, Juif alsacien et antisioniste, dont le p\u00e8re a \u00e9t\u00e9 fusill\u00e9 par les nazis le 14 juillet 1944 et dont la famille a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9port\u00e9e et tu\u00e9e \u00e0 Auschwitz, UJFP \/ France<\/p>\n

Nicholas Mirzoeff<\/strong>, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Dominique Natanson<\/strong>, animateur du site M\u00e9moire Juive & Education \/ France<\/p>\n

Atalia Omer<\/strong>, Senior Fellow, Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard Divinity School \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Charles Post<\/strong>, City University of New York \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Ben Ratskoff<\/strong>, Editor-in-Chief of PROTOCOLS \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Michael Richmond<\/strong>, Jewish writer, London \/ Royaume-Uni<\/p>\n

Brant Rosen<\/strong>, Rabbin, Tzedek Chicago \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Simona Sharoni\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Silverstein<\/strong>, journalist, Tikun Olam \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Santiago Slabodsky<\/strong>, Jewish Studies Professor \/ Argentina \/ Etats-Unis<\/p>\n

Stephen Suffern<\/strong>, avocat aux barreaux de Paris et de New York\u00a0\/ France<\/p>\n

Marianne Van Leeuw-Koplewicz<\/strong>, \u00e9ditrice\u00a0\/ Belgique<\/p>\n

Michel Warschawski<\/strong>, militant anticolonialiste \/ Isra\u00ebl<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Https:\/\/www.francepalestine.org\/Un-descendant-de-l-aristocratie-sioniste-veut-quitter-le-peuple-juif-Israel-le<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/ujfp.org\/nous-prenons-nos-responsabilitessoixante-jeunes-annoncent-leur-refus-de-servir-dans-larmee-israelienne\/<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.btselem.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/202101_this_is_apartheid_e ng.pdf<\/p>\n

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It has come to our attention that the French-Israeli lawyer, G.W. Goldnadel, has threatened to take the decolonial activist Houria Bouteldja to court for having written \u2018it is not possible to be innocently Israeli\u2019 in a text condemning antisemitism and discussing how it is produced and spread. Some interpreted this as fallacious and others incorrectly … Continue reading Come for one of us, come for us all!: Anticolonialist Jews to G.W. Goldnadel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}