Being an anti-Zionist, atheist, communist Jew, I am still self-identified as a Jew, for to do anything else would be anti-Semitic. My people came from different parts of the Eastern European diaspora, which means somewhere back there, if that history is true, they were converted by some czar or prince. But they suffered from pogroms, and my great grandad Cottin sold Marxist literature to the Russian soldiers in the 19th century. We were from Belarus, which has been l threatened by US NATO destruction for some time, since it is independent and has some socialist laws and institutions. That said, I want to say that I have often, when I remembered, lit Channukah candles with my family on a menorah my grandparents brought from Belarus. I dont know the words, except for Rock of Ages, of the prayer over the candles. Now I am sharing this tradition with my granddaughter whose background is African, Eastern European Jewish and Guatemalan. My parents were Reds, so they didnt give us any religious instruction, except for lighting the menorah. But my dad said it was about fighting oppression, so that was good enough for me. He also took me on turns on any picket line we ever passed, and told me people on strike were fighting oppression. So, if you are sending out anti-Channukah memes, you are being ant- Semitic, and pissing me off. Each culture has the right to celebrate its holidays and traditions. If Zionists do it, does that mean anti-Zionists may not? So then Zionists are correct to say anti-Israel Jews are not Jews? I do not let my enemy define me, and. I do not let my comrades insult me. My dear Comrade Marge Mahoney sent out a lovely song for Channukah, and shes as anti-Zionist as that great Irish musician and composer, and major organizer of anti-Israel actions in Ireland, Raymond Deane, who knows the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:12:00 +0000
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