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Guest Post: Observations on the Jewish Response to the Movement for Black Lives Platform from a Self Loving Antiracist White JewPosted: August 14, 2016 Filed under: American Jewish Community, Anti-Semitism, Genocide, Holocaust, Human Rights, Israel, Jewish Community, Judaism, Palestine, Politics, Religion Leave a comment
A guest post from my friend Martin Friedman:
For the purpose of this piece I will be referring to Blacks who are for the most part gentile and white Jews (Jews who have come to get the racial designation of White in the context of the US regardless of self identification).
This particular piece is really written for Jews who have come to be called White. Jews who are also people of color are writing excellent pieces from their unique perspective. I will not attempt to speak from that perspective.
What a(nother) crucial time for relationships between "Blacks" and "Jews"! What will we choose? Will we, as we have done so many times in the past, choose whiteness and the perceived safety that we feel goes with that in the US or will we choose to align ourselves with those that are most oppressed in a given society? This is a very familiar spot for the Ashkenazi (and occasionally Sephardi) Jew who now gets a racial designation as white in the US.
Let's get this out of the way right now. Jewish, in the United States, isn't a race. It is a culture that includes both spirituality and religion and also includes non religious ways of life. Jewish is also, arguably, an ethnicity based on being a cultural marker that has traveled with us and defined us. In this country Jewish is not a race.
So please, Ashkenazi Jews, just stop saying, "I'm not white. I'm Jewish." Yes we are Jewish and we will also be assigned a race based on how we are commonly perceived by institutions and systems. How we see ourselves or how we self identify does not matter in this race-constructed and race-constitutionalized country. A Jewish person who is also Black, Latino, Asian, Native American or mixed race will be identified first by their race even as they self identify as a Jew.
OK, let's get something else out of the way too. I am a self loving Jew (who is also white). I love my Jewishness. I am unapologetically Jewish. So let's just wipe out the whole, "Oh, he must be a self hating Jew because he isn't mortally offended that the Movement for Black Lives platform used the terminology of genocidal and apartheid policies in relationship to Israel." Or, "Oh, we don't have to listen to Martin because he went to Israel and visited the West Bank and East Jerusalem and has been critical of Israeli policy on his Facebook page". Not true! On my grand and great grandparents! On my great Aunt Leah from whom I got my middle name. I love my Jewishness! I love the connection I feel to my Eastern European Jewish heritage.
I am also in love with an ideal of Jewishness that isn't rooted in whiteness and domination. A Jewish ideal of true Tikkun Olam; of Repairing the world. All the world! Not just a world defined by whiteness or Europeanness. Not a world where we get to control the conversation.
The world is broken. Does our refusing to engage with BLM help repair it? Can we repair it if we don't engage with people who criticize current Israeli policy and US financial and Military support for the government that developed and enforces those policies?
It's time for White Jews to stop choosing whiteness and align ourselves with those most oppressed in the US because that is what true Jewishness is about. And why wouldn't we? The point of the Movement for Black Lives Platform was to speak truth to all power, not to use pleasing language. It is our duty to sit across the table from people who have been most oppressed in our country and hear what they have to say about what they perceive to be genocidal policy that's connected to Institutional, Systemic and Structural Racism in the US.
What are we afraid of? Why are we, of all people, afraid of conversation about oppression? If the policies of the Israeli government really are leading to a fair two or one state solution, why can't we sit at a table and discuss it? Remember, the one piece of the platform we are so hyped up about is about governmental policy both here and in Israel not about hating or oppressing Jews? Remember that Egypt was mentioned at the same time as Israel? I hope we are not forgetting those things because this is just an easy reason to disengage.
We are a people who have such a long history of debate and multiple interpretations of the same text (or in this case policies) so why are we shutting this conversation down? Because of multigenerational historical trauma from the European Holocaust? All the more reason to sit down with people who have multigenerational historical trauma from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and US chattel slavery. Multigenerational trauma from lynchings and Jim Crow. From a Eugenics narrative that was studied here in the US by German Nazis. My people, we share roots in our historical trauma.
We, White Jews, have confused comfort with safety. And the root of that confusion is the root of the problem, power. Power is defined (by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond) as legitimate access to institutions and systems sanctioned by the state. Power that is equivalent to Whiteness. People that have strong access to institutional and systemic power confuse discomfort with safety all the time.
I put forth, vehemently, that the wording of one section of the Movement for Black Lives platform makes us uncomfortable, not unsafe. We must be willing to engage. It's pure privilege to get to pick and choose when and with whom we engage on this subject. It's extreme privilege to just say no, I'm done. Extreme privilege to be able to shut someone down.
This is another in a long line of moments in history where we as white Jews get to chose alignment with whiteness or with People of Color. And what's even crazier this time is that it feels like it's our Jewishness that is at stake. It's even crazier because it feels like this is anti Semitism. Again, being anti-Israeli policy and anti-US government policy is not the same thing as being anti-Semitic.
Historically, we've chosen the perceived safety of whiteness. Our ability to become fully White was due to governmental policy, the GI bill plus redlining which gave us our whiteness while excluding Blacks and Latinos who such a short time earlier had been our partners and friends. But they couldn't access it in the same way as we could due to racism.
Yes, many of us were in the civil rights movement. Yes, many of us marched side by side. But we let ourselves get coopted so soon after. We chose whiteness because it got us out of the ghetto (named because of us by the way!) It was our literal ghetto pass. We need to understand that we left our brothers and sisters behind.
What are the costs of choosing Whiteness over Jewishness? One of the costs of our comfort and our privilege is Black and Brown lives. As long as we align ourselves with whiteness we contribute to the deaths of Black and Brown people at the hands of institutions. Their deaths are part of the the cost of our comfort, safety and privilege.
The other loss is the loss of what it really means to be Jewish. That it means to not stand idly by our neighbor's blood. That it means true Tikkun Olam. We are at such a(nother) crucial time of choice.
Let's choose our Jewishness over Whiteness this time. Let's choose life.
A Prayer for the Global Shabbat Against Home DemolitionsPosted: August 10, 2016 Filed under: CJNV Delegation 2016, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Prayer, Religion Leave a comment
The very sad news came yesterday that Israel had demolished Palestinian homes throughout the West Bank, including five in Umm al-Kheir – the village I visited last month with a delegation from the Center For Jewish Nonviolence. Susiya, another village we visited is also under threat of immanent demolition. Please join me in signing this petition to urge Secretary of State Kerry to "to use the leverage the United States has, as Israel's biggest supporter, to put real pressure on Israel to stop displacing Palestinian families from their homes."
This Friday night August 12, will mark the Global Shabbat Against Home Demolitions – an international show of solidarity with Palestinians who live with daily possibility that their homes will be destroyed and their families uprooted. Click here to see if there is a gathering near you. If not, please consider organizing one.
A Prayer for the Steadfast
This is a prayer for the steadfast,
the ones who stand firm,
the ones who say:
you can destroy my house
but you will never destroy my home.
This is a prayer for the ones
who lose their fields
only to clear new ones,
uprooting weeds, moving stones,
planting zatar seedlings
in the hot summer sun.
This is a prayer for the ones
who sift through the rubble of their homes
and find dolls, blankets, tea canisters,
photos of ancestors gazing at them
through shattered glass.
This is a prayer for the ones
who live in tents
next to twisted steel and broken concrete
knowing they will have to rebuild
before winter comes again.
This is a prayer for the ones
who issue appeals
and stays and petitions
to courts that issue no justice.
This is a prayer for the ones
who put their children to bed at night
in huts of corrugated metal,
praying they will not awaken
to the sounds of bulldozers.
This is a prayer for the ones
who stand amidst the ruins
once the soldiers have gone
and silently vow:
demolish our houses again
if you choose
but we will never leave.
We will rebuild, we will replant,
we will remain.
Our very existence
is resistance.
Breaking Ground at Cinema HebronPosted: July 17, 2016 Filed under: American Jewish Community, CJNV Delegation 2016, Israel, Nonviolence, Palestine, Prayer, Religion Leave a comment
This past Friday, I had the honor to participate in an incredible, unprecedented mass action of civil disobedience in the H2 section of Hebron – in the heart of Israel's unjust and illegal occupation.
I'll start with a little bit of history:
In 1968, a year after Israel conquered the West Bank, a group of radical religious settlers led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, led a group of followers to a hotel in Hebron – with the government's support – to observe a Passover seder. When it was over, they refused to leave; and following a negotiation with the government, they were allowed to create a settlement to the east of Hebron that they named Kiryat Arba Since that time, Jewish settlers gradually moved into Hebron proper. Over the years tension gradually increased in Hebron. Things changed drastically in 1995 after Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in the Ibrahimi mosque. Fearful of reprisals, the IDF imposed increasing curfews and restriction of movement on the Palestinian population.
In 1996, as part of the Oslo agreement, Hebron was divided into two sections: H1 and H2. H1 is locally governed by the Palestinian Authority and is home to approximately 120,000 Palestinians. Tens of thousands of Palestinians live in H2 along with 600 Jewish settlers. Since the Second Intifada, Israel increased their security crackdown on this part of the city, blocking off major streets to Palestinians – most notably the main commercial road, Shuhadah Street. (The army refers to them as "sterile roads").
Virtually every Palestinian shop in H2 has been closed and their doors welded shut by the army. Because the Palestinian residents of Shuhadah St. are not allowed to walk on the road, they must enter and exit through the rear of homes because they cannot leave their own front doors. Because of these measures – and the ongoing harassment and violence at the hands of Jewish settlers – what was once the busting commercial center of Hebron has become a ghost town. 42% of its Palestinian homes are empty and 70% of its Palestinian business have been shut down.
We visited Hebron earlier this week and it was a truly chilling experience. Our group went on a tour led by Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli army veterans who are speaking out about the abuses the IDF are committing in Hebron. I did a BTS tour in 2008 during my first real foray into the reality of contemporary Hebron. Today, the situation there is even more dire if such a thing is possible.
Before we started our tour, we witnessed an incident in which a settler attacked an Israeli photographer and damaged his camera. As it turned out the photographer was the celebrated photojournalist Oren Ziv. who was accompanying a private BTS tour for Irish author Colm Tóibín. The incident was captured on film by a member of our delegation. He gave a copy of the video to Ziv so he could press charges against the settler for damages. (We never found out whether or not he actually succeeded).
As we walked down Shuhadah St., the intimidating presence of the settlers was impossible to ignore. At one point we saw Tóibín and his tour guide on the side of the road. A car with two settlers drove up and the driver proceeded to scream obscenities at them for ten minutes.
Hebron's settlers are truly the most brutal, ideologically extreme and heavily armed of the entire settler movement. They walk and drive the streets with impunity and full protection of the IDF. As is the case throughout the West Bank, Jews are governed by Israeli civil law – and as a result the army cannot and does not intervene when settlers harass Palestinians. However, since Palestinians are subject to military law, they face dual oppression from soldiers and settlers alike.
After our BTS tour we walked to the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron to meet with Issa Amro, founder/director of Youth Against the Settlements. YAS is an increasingly powerful and important Palestinian nonviolent organization; among other things, it sponsors the annual Open Shuhadah Street campaign and regularly organizes/empowers the youth of Hebron.
Issa is truly a visionary leader in the Palestinian popular resistance movement. He has been arrested and detained countless times for his activism but has clearly become well known throughout Hebron as force to be reckoned with. Palestinian activists such as Issa tend to infuriate the Israeli military because their principled commitment to nonviolence cannot be quelled militarily. Although he and his comrades have been arrested and detained numerous times, YAS has come to represent a ray of hope for the Palestinian residents of Hebron.
We met Issa in the YAS center, which has an interesting history all its own. Originally Palestinian-owned, the building was taken over by settlers several years ago. But through a methodical campaign of legal pressure and nonviolent resistance, the settlers were eventually evicted and it was turned into YAS's central headquarters. Last November, the center was raided by the IDF and temporarily declared a "closed military zone" (I'll get back to this term later). Still, Issa and YAS remain steadfast.
On Thursday we prepared to return to Hebron for our nonviolent direct action, which had been almost two years in the planning by YAS and the Israeli anti-occupation collective All That's Left. The Center for Jewish Nonviolence was invited to be part of this action as well so that its message could be strengthened through the solidarity of diaspora Jewry. CJNV has cultivated a strong relationship with both YAS and ATL and other Israeli/Palestinian partners on the ground. It is truly a sign of the times that diaspora Jews are joining this increasingly broad-based solidarity movement.
The goal of the action was to begin the process of turning an old metal factory in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron into a movie theater: Cinema Hebron.YAS chose to build a movie theater so that the isolated, segregated Palestinian residents of H2 could have a place to come together in community – to experience even a little slice of normalcy in this intensely abnormal, unjust environment. It was also designed to be a statement to the settler community that the Palestinian residents of Hebron will continue to resist the theft of their property – and that Jews from around the world are ready to stand in solidarity with them.
The factory is owned by Jawad Abu Aisha, the patriarch of a prominent family in Tel Rumeida. As was the case with the YAS center, Jewish settlers were gradually encroaching toward this particular property – and based on past history, it seemed it was only a matter of time before it was taken it over completely. Tel Rumeida is heavily desired by settlers and has long been one of the tensest areas of Hebron. (This past March, Tel Rumeida made the news after a solider was filmed shooting a wounded Palestinian in the head while he was lying in the street.)
We spent all day Thursday preparing for the action, which was prepared down to the most minute detail. Our plan was to go to the old, cluttered site, begin the process of cleaning it up and announce our intention to turn it into Cinema Hebron to the press. Inevitably the IDF and police would show up and eventually declare it a "closed military zone" – their standard operating procedure when dealing with protests.
Legally speaking, the military needs to get a signed order to declare a closed military zone, but they often dispense with that pretense. Our plan was to keep cleaning up the site until the soldiers returned with their order. In the meantime, we would put up a mock marquee, pass out Cinema Hebron popcorn, give interviews to press, chant and sing, and do our best to clean up the site before they soldiers and police ordered us out.
There were 60 participants all told – 40 from CJNV and another twenty from Youth against the Settlements and All That's Left. Our group split up into three "pods" – Green (those who would work until the soldiers returned but would not take an arrest), Yellow (those who would would be willing to be arrested if it was deemed necessary by our leaders) and Red (those who would stay until they were arrested.)
As an extra precautionary measure, we drove to the site in separate vans to the site. Unfortunately, the military was somehow tipped off that there was some kind of action being planned for Hebron that day – and the van coming with ATF activists from Jerusalem was stopped en route. Our CJNV delegation all made it in safely, however. We gathered in an old metal warehouse until we were given the word that our tools had arrived. Then we put up the marquee and got to work.
The site was heavily overgrown with high weeds and all kinds of scrap metal everywhere. As we started raking, hauling, piling junk we sang a every Jewish song and civil rights chant we knew. In short order settlers started to gather, peering at us through the front gate. The IDF and police arrived soon as well – we worked for about an hour or an hour and a half before they actually entered the site. They began arguing with the Palestinian owners and after some back and forth, they eventually fell back and we continued with our work.
After another hour or so, they returned and announced that the area was closed military zone. At this point, the some members of our delegation left and the rest of us sat down in the middle of the site, continuing to chant and sing. A police officer came up to us and told us that our presence on the site was illegal and if we did not leave in two minutes, we would be arrested (below). When our two minutes were up, they started to physically remove us (see the clip at the top of this post). They shoved us to the back of the site, gathered us together and ordered to take out our passports. They then asked the six Israelis from our delegation to take out their identity cards and led them away. We were sent out in the other direction and told to leave the site.
At that point we gathered together and discussed what to do next. It seemed clear to us that the Israelis were targeted because they were easier to process – and that the authorities likely wanted to avoid the bad publicity of arresting internationals. When we received word from our lawyers that our six friends had been taken to the police station in Kiryat Arba, we decided to walk there together and demand their release.
After walking for only ten minutes or so we were stopped by five soldiers who told us we couldn't continue because the area was (you guessed it) a closed military zone. We refused to leave and said we simply wanted to visit our friends in the police station. Thus began a stand off, during which the lead soldier called his commander four or five times. They clearly had never dealt with a group like ours and were somewhat bewildered that we wouldn't leave when ordered. Finally Issa arrived and argued loudly with the soldiers. I'm not sure how he managed it but we were finally told we could continue along a detoured route.
We eventually made it to Shuhadah St., continued down the road, passed the Ibrahimi Mosque and headed up a hill that led us in the direction of Kiryat Arba. As we walked in, we were joined by soldiers who silently walked alongside us. It quickly became clear to me that they weren't there to impede us but rather to protect us from angry settlers. (I'm fairly sure this was the first time the residents of Kiryat Arba had ever witnessed a group of singing diaspora Jews walking down the street wearing "Occupation in Not Our Judaism" T-shirts ).
We finally arrived at a gated area and faced yet another gauntlet of soldiers. After yet another round of back and forth, we were sent around to the front gate. Then we walked down a residential community to the end of the street where the police station was located. We talked to the guard at the front gate and explained we wanted to see our friends inside. After other policemen gathered we were told that our six friends were indeed inside but that we would not be allowed to see them. At this point, increasing numbers of residents from the neighborhood had come to mock and taunt us. Many of them filmed us with their cell phones. Eventually we sat down on the ground in front of the station gate and began to sing and chant once more.
The leaders of our delegation were in cell phone contact with the lawyers and our friends inside, who told us they could actually hear us singing and calling out their names. They were in the process of being interrogated by the police one by one but were otherwise fine. By this point quite a crowd had started to gather around us. We kept on singing as more police cars arrived. The original officer came back to us and told us that this was an illegal assembly – and that we had two minutes to disperse before they arrested us.
After talking with our lawyers, we decided against taking an arrest. They told us they believed our friends would likely be released in several hours, adding that our arrest would not help their cause and might even hinder it. So after spending an hour at the station we got up, walked together down the street and gathered near the front gate. As Shabbat was getting closer, we sang Shalom Aleichem and Lecha Dodi together with our other songs. Then together, we walked to a YAS home in H1 to meet up with the rest of our crew, eat a late lunch, debrief, share stories and nap after our physically/emotionally exhausting experience. Eventually we boarded our bus and returned to Susiya, in the South Hebron Hills where we would spend our Shabbat.
That evening just after a gorgeous sunset, we made a circle on a rocky hill and I began to lead our Shabbat service. As I prepared to lead Lecha Dodi, the prayer that welcomes the Shabbat bride, I heard someone shout. I looked up and saw two cars pulling up. Our six friends got out, grinning ear to ear as we cheered their arrival. After lots of hugs and laughter, we all continued with our service.
Shabbat had arrived.
(PS: You can read about our Cinema Hebron action here and here and our Shabbat in Susiya here).
Solidarity in Hevron: Occupation is Not Our JudaismPosted: July 8, 2016 Filed under: CJNV Delegation 2016, Current Events, Human Rights, Israel, Judaism, Nonviolence, Palestine, Racism, Religion Leave a comment
I'll soon be traveling Israel/Palestine this weekend with 40 other Jews from around the world as part of a solidarity delegation to Hebron and the South Hebron Hills sponsored by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. CJNV is a relatively new organization that has been doing important work bringing Diaspora Jews to Israel/Palestine to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in nonviolent actions against the occupation. Last year, CJNV traveled to Tent of Nations (a very special place about which I've written many times before) to plant trees to replace the 1,500 fruit bearing trees that had been destroyed by the IDF. More recently the CJNV participated in an action at the World Zionist Congress to protest the complete absence of the occupation from the World Zionist Organization's agenda.
The name of this new campaign is entitled "Occupation is not our Judaism" and will include work in the village of Susiya (which recently experienced home demolitions that left 26 Palestinians homeless) and planting in the nearby village of Umm Al Khair (see photo above). We'll also be standing in solidarity with Palestinian residents of the city of Hebron – I'll be writing more about this aspect of our work in the coming days.
I've visited and written about the injustices wrought upon Hevron in posts from past visits – and since that time the situation has only grown more dire. You may have read about the recent visit to Hevron by authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. After their experience there the clearly shaken Chabon was quoted as saying:
(This is) the most grievous injustice I have ever seen in my life … this is the worst thing I have ever seen, just purely in terms of injustice. If saying that is going to lose me readers, I don't want those readers. They can go away and never come back.
For more on the daily reality faced by Palestinians in Susiya and the South Hevron Hills, check out the clip below:
Finally, like everyone else in our country I'm following recent events in Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas, and am mindful that racist state violence is all too brutally real right here at home as well. As I leave, I'm taking to heart the very wise words that my friend, the historian/writer/activist Barbara Ransby has just posted on her Facebook page:
In these difficult and trying times, as we grieve the horrible murders of our people, suffer the skewed media coverage that attempts to relegate our work to the gutter, and witness the backlash that has already begun, our response must be sober and strategic. Fear is understandable. But a fierce fortitude is what is required. And a principled unity is necessary today more than ever.
Whether it's here or anywhere else in the world, I'm more convinced than ever that my place is to be accountable to those affected by this violence and take our cue from their "fierce fortitude."
I look forward to sharing my experiences with you in the coming days.
On Passover, Israel and Demographic ThreatsPosted: April 28, 2016 Filed under: Civil Rights, Gaza, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Peace, Pesach, Politics, Refugees, Religion, Zionism Leave a comment
Crossposted with Truthout
The weeklong Jewish festival of Passover is coming to a close, but like many Jews around the world I'm still digesting the myriad questions, answers and discussions that ensued as we retold the biblical story of the Exodus at our seder. While it's a story our community returns to over and over again, I'm continually astonished at the ways it provides a frame for understanding struggles for liberation past and present.
This year, I've been contemplating one aspect of the story in particular: when a new pharaoh arises over Egypt "who did not know Joseph." We immediately learn in no uncertain terms that this new ruler was considerably more xenophobic than his predecessor:
And (Pharaoh) said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are much too numerous for us. Let us deal shrewdly with them, so that they may not increase; otherwise in the event of war they may join our enemies in fighting against us." (Exodus 1:8-9)
To use contemporary parlance, Pharaoh clearly views the Israelites as a "demographic threat" to the Egyptians.
The demographic threat meme, of course, has been played out countless times since the age of the pharaohs. It has certainly been a deeply woven thread in the fabric of American culture from our very origins. To cite but one example: Centuries before Donald Trump started railing against Mexican "criminals" and "rapists," Benjamin Franklin wrote a 1751 essay in which he bemoaned the influx of "Palatine Boors" into the colonies who would "shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion."
So yes, as an American, I can't read these words from the Exodus story without connecting it to an ignoble aspect of my own country's legacy — one that is all too real even today.
And as an American Jew, I can't help but connect it to another country that also purports to act in my name.
Indeed, ever since Israel's establishment, Zionist leaders knew well that the future Jewish state would only be "viable" if it could create and maintain a demographic Jewish majority in historic Palestine. In the late 19th century, this must surely have seemed like a tall order, since Jews constituted but 2 to 5 percent of the population. By 1947, following decades of Zionist colonization and Jewish immigration, their number had swelled to 32 percent. Under the UN-sponsored partition plan, the percentage of Jews allotted to the new Jewish state would have been 55 percent.
During the 1948 war — known as the War of Independence by Zionists and the Nakba ("catastrophe") by Palestinians — the issue of demographics was solved through the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and Israel's refusal to allow them to return. However, the demographic stakes were raised once again in 1967, when Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza and began a military occupation that exists to this day.
In 2010, Jews officially become a minority population from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea; around the same time, it was determined that the Jewish majority in Israel proper was slowly diminishing. For some time now, Zionists have been warning that the Palestinians' birth rate poses a "demographic threat" to the future of the Jewish state.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this rhetoric is that it doesn't only come from Israel's far right, but from liberal Zionists, who use the demographic argument to advocate for a two-state solution. Witness, for instance, the words of J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami:
When it comes to Israeli-Palestinian peace, the two-state solution and the inexorable demographic threat to Israel's future as a democratic state that remains the homeland for the Jewish people, our position is the same as that of the Israeli government, the Obama administration and the vast bulk of the American Jewish community.
Leaving aside the issues of whether or not the two-state solution actually is the policyof the Israeli government, let's unpack this statement for a moment. The liberal Zionist argument for a "democratic Jewish state" is predicated on a view of Palestinians as a "demographic threat." As an American, if I referred to any other ethnic group in this country with such a term, I would surely be viewed as a bigot or a racist. But as a Jew, I can refer to Palestinians with this epithet and still remain a member in good standing of the liberal peace camp.
Thus the inherent contradiction of liberal Zionism: democracy and demographic engineering simply do not go hand in hand. At the end of the day, there is nothing liberal about supporting an ethno-national project predicated upon the identity of one group over another. The late Meir Kahane, revered by Israel's ultra right, loved to make liberal Zionists squirm by repeatedly articulating this point: "A western democracy and Zionism are not compatible. You can't have both."
Kahane's solution, of course, was "forced transfer" of the Palestinian population. The current government of Israel is accomplishing this goal through more subtle means:home demolitions, land expropriation and the revocation of Palestinians' residency and citizenship. In truth, Israel has been dealing with its demographic threat under cover of US support for years, all the while claiming the mantle of "the only democracy in the Middle East."
This, along with its massive settlement expansion has brought Israel's demographic problem home to roost. The real decision before them is not between a one-state or two-state solution, but between two one-state solutions: an apartheid Jewish state or one state of all its citizens, regardless of religion or ethnicity.
As I watch this tragic process unfold this Passover, I find myself returning to the universal lesson this festival imparts on the corrupt abuse of state power. Although the Exodus story is considered sacred in Jewish tradition, it would be a mistake to assume that the contemporary state of Israel must be seen as equivalent to the biblical Israelites.
On the contrary, any people who suffer under oppressive government policies are, in a sense, Israelites. And any state — even a Jewish state — that views a people in its midst as a demographic threat can become a Pharaoh.
Yes, Zionism is Settler ColonialismPosted: April 2, 2016 Filed under: BDS, Human Rights, Israel, Judaism, Nakba, Palestine, Politics, Racism, Religion, Zionism Leave a comment
Is Zionism "settler colonialism?" It's an important question that is increasingly invoked in public debates over Israel/Palestine – and BDS in particular.
While I personally do believe Israel to be a settler colonial state, I think it's critical to understand what we mean when we use this term, what it means in the context of Israel/Palestine, and its implications for the wider struggle against systems of oppression in the US and throughout the world.
Let's start with the definition itself. Many people use the term "settler colonialism" and "colonialism" interchangeably, but they are not in fact the same thing. Colonialism is defined by the Collins Dictionary as "the policy and practice of a power in extending control over weaker peoples or areas." Historically speaking, it generally refers to specific European imperial powers during a period that lasted from the 16th to mid-20th centuries.
"Settler colonialism," is a different concept, as Professor of Anthropology Tate A. LeFevre explains:
Though often conflated with colonialism more generally, settler colonialism is a distinct imperial formation. Both colonialism and settler colonialism are premised on exogenous domination, but only settler colonialism seeks to replace the original population of the colonized territory with a new society of settlers (usually from the colonial metropole). This new society needs land, and so settler colonialism depends primarily on access to territory. Britain, for example, implemented the doctrine of "terra nullius" ("land belonging to no one") to claim sovereignty over Australia. The entire continent was thereby declared legally uninhabited, despite millennia of Aboriginal occupation.
In other words, while colonialism typically refers to events, settler-colonialism is viewed as an ongoing process. Professor LeFevre puts it this way: "Settler colonialism is premised on occupation and the elimination of the native population, while colonialism is primarily about conquest."
Given this definition, the claim that Zionism is a form of settler colonialism it is not at all inappropriate and certainly not anti-Semitic (as some of the more vociferous Israel advocates will often claim).
There is, for instance, a striking similarity between the British colonial concept of "terra nullius" and the early Zionist slogan, "a land without a people for a people without a land." This is not say that Zionists viewed the land as literally empty – they most certainly recognized the existence of an Arab population in Palestine. It does mean, however, that they did not always factor its indigenous inhabitants into their equations – and when they did, it was invariably as a problem to be dealt with.
The father of modern Zionism made this clear in his diary when he wrote of Palestinian Arabs:
We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries whilst denying it any employment in our own country.
David Ben-Gurion expressed similar intentions in a 1937 letter to his son Amos (who was critical of his father's intention to support the 1937 Peel Commission partition plan):
My assumption (which is why I am a fervent proponent of a state, even though it is now linked to partition) is that a Jewish state on only part of the land is not the end but the beginning…
The establishment of a state, even if only on a portion of the land, is the maximal reinforcement of our strength at the present time and a powerful boost to our historical endeavors to liberate the entire country.
We shall admit into the state all the Jews we can. We firmly believe that we can admit more than two million Jews. We shall build a multi-faceted Jewish economy– agricultural, industrial, and maritime. We shall organize an advanced defense force—a superior army which I have no doubt will be one of the best armies in the world. At that point I am confident that we would not fail in settling in the remaining parts of the country, through agreement and understanding with our Arab neighbors, or through some other means.
Thanks to Israeli historians such as Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, Tom Segev and Ilan Pappe, we now know that the creation of Israel was accomplished through "some other means." More recently, journalist Avi Shavit recently made reference to this ignoble history in his book, "My Promised Land." The most chilling chapter (which was reprinted in the New Yorker magazine) describes in detail the depopulation of the Palestinian village of Lydda.
Even more chilling are Shavit's musings on the meaning of this tragic event:
Looking straight ahead at Lydda, I wonder if peace is possible. Our side is clear: we had to come into the Lydda Valley and we had to take the Lydda Valley. There is no other home for us, and there was no other way. But the Arabs' side, the Palestinian side, is equally clear: they cannot forget Lydda and they cannot forgive us for Lydda. You can argue that it is not the occupation of 1967 that is at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the tragedy of 1948. It's not only the settlements that are an obstacle to peace but the Palestinians' yearning to return, one way or another, to Lydda and to dozens of other towns and villages that vanished during one cataclysmic year. But the Jewish State cannot let them return.
Many who reject the "Zionism as Settler Colonialism" label often argue that this claim ignores the historic and Biblical connection of the Jewish people to the land – and that Jews are its "true indigenous people" who have been longing for a return and restoration to their ancient homeland for centuries.
Leaving aside the use of a profoundly ahistorical document such as the Bible as justification for the establishment for a modern Jewish nation state, let's look more closely at the Zionist claim of Jewish indigeneity to the land.
It is certainly true following the destruction of the Temple in 73 CE and the spread of the Jewish people throughout the diaspora, Jewish tradition continued to maintain an important attachment to the land of Israel. Eretz Yisrael ("the Land of Israel") is a central subject in many sacred Jewish texts and numerous traditional Jewish prayers express a longing for a return of the Jewish people to the land. It is also true that there have been small Jewish communities in historic Palestine throughout the ages and that pilgrimage to Eretz Yisrael was considered to be a mitzvah ("or sacred commandment".)
However, it is important to note that the Jewish attachment to this land has traditionally been expressed as an inherently religious connection. From its very beginnings, Judaism has spiritualized the concept of the land. Moreover, throughout the centuries, rabbinical authorities strictly prohibited an en masse return to the land in order to establish a Third Jewish Commonwealth. Such an act was viewed as an anathema – a profane forcing of God's hand. The restoration of the Jewish People to the land would only occur with the coming of the Messiah and the onset of the Messianic Era.
It is against this context that we must understand Zionism as a modern political movement, arising in the 19th century as an explicit rejection of Jewish tradition. While Judaism was a diaspora-based religion that taught God could be found anywhere in the world, Zionism preached "shlilat hagalut" ("negation of the diaspora"), advocating for a literal return to the land in order to establish a modern Jewish nation state. Influenced by the European nationalisms of its day, Zionism sought to create a new kind of Judaism and indeed, a new kind of Jew.
This radical revisioning of Jewish life and culture in many ways represents the exact opposite of indigeneity. Indigenous peoples by definition maintain unique cultural and linguistic practices distinctive to their presence in a particular land. Zionism created a completely new Hebraic Jewish culture – one that was deeply influenced by a European Ashkenazic ethos and transplanted into the Middle East. To be clear: this is not to say that Jews have no connection to this land and no right to live there, only that the claim of Jewish indigeneity is ideological, rather than factual – and that this claim has had a devastating impact on the actual indigenous people of this land.
Other critics of the settler colonialist label point out that there is no such thing as a discrete "Zionism;" that this movement was historically made up of many different Zionisms, not all of which shared the same political goals. There were, for instance, cultural Zionists such as Ahad Ha'am who did not share Herzl's desire of a Jewish political state but rather advocated for a gradual colonization of Palestine that would make it the center of a Jewish cultural renaissance. There also Zionists such as Judah Magnes and Hannah Arendt, who believed in the creation of a bi-national Jewish/Arab state in Palestine.
These variants of Zionism represent an important fact of history. But it is also true that they are precisely that: part of the historical past. If Magnes or Arendt were living today, they would surely be considered "anti-Zionist". In the end, the form of Zionism that ultimately triumphed was the political Zionism advocated by those who sought to create a sovereign Jewish state in historic Palestine. And it was this Zionism that aimed to solve the problem of Palestine's indigenous population "through some other means" – that is, by means of settler colonialism.
In one of the most comprehensive treatments I've yet read on this subject, Bennett Muraskin writes:
Zionism is described by its supporters as the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, but it must be recognized that until the 1947 UN Partition Plan, the land it sought to liberate had a minority of Jews, consisting mainly of recent Europeans immigrants living under the protection of an imperial power. When the British turned against the Jewish colony, the Zionists succeeded in liberating themselves, but in the war it fought with the Palestinian Arabs and Arab armies, the Zionists dispossessed the native population.
In this sense, Israel is a colonial settler state.
Muraskin, however, then goes on to list the ways that make Israel different from other settler colonial states. His intention, I assume, is to leave open the possibility that it somehow isn't. This equivocal attitude is obvious from the outset – Muraskin's article is actually entitled "Is Israel a Colonial Settler State? Perhaps but with Lots of Provisos."
In the end, however, I believe these "provisos" only demonstrate that Zionism represents but one form of settler colonialism. One obvious difference is that Israel was created by what began as a small movement, not an existing colonial power such as Great Britain, France or Belgium. However it is also true that Israel could never have been created without the help of great world powers (Britain and later the US) who supported the creation of the Jewish state because it advanced their own imperial agendas. James Baldwin put it very aptly in 1979: he state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of the Western interests."
In the end, this insight explains why the debate over this term is more than just academic or semantical. Israel's oppressive policies against the Palestinians do not exist in a vacuum. They are but part of a larger hegemonic system of white supremacy and institutionalized racism that exists in the US and throughout the world.
As Professor LeFevre writes, "Settler colonialism does not really ever 'end.'" Perhaps the first step in that direction is to call it out for what it really and truly is.
Shabbat Shalom, Donald Trump!Posted: March 18, 2016 Filed under: Fear, Immigration, Judaism, Nonviolence, Peace, Politics, Racism, Religion, Tzedek Chicago Leave a comment
Here is the letter I included in my weekly Friday e-mail to my congregants at Tzedek Chicago:
Dear Haverim,
One week ago, Tzedek Chicago cancelled its regularly scheduled Shabbat service in order to attend the Trump protest that was being held outside the UIC Pavilion. It just felt as if this was just too critical a moment to let pass by, particularly for a congregation committed to social justice and anti-racism. As I wrote to you in last week's email: "Clearly this is not the most conventional way to greet Shabbat. Nevertheless, I do believe – and trust you will agree – that this is where we need to be."
In the end, about twenty Tzedek members attended the event – and I think all who were there would agree with me that I say it was one of the most powerful Shabbat moments we have ever experienced.
When we arrived there was still a very long line of people waiting to get into the arena. We couldn't help but notice that the attendees were exceedingly diverse: there were people wearing Trump swag along with women in hijabs, men and women cheering for Trump alongside African Americans wearing "Black Lives Matter" shirts. While it was clearly a tense and uncomfortable atmosphere, there was was no physical violence we could see among those waiting in line.
When we crossed the street to where the protest was being held, we were swept into a huge sea of people that was quickly being cordoned off by a massive police presence. As the crowd grew, it grew more difficult to keep our contingent together – and eventually we were separated into groups. A variety of different speakers took the microphone and led chants as those attending the rally continued to file into the pavilion.
While the majority of protestors seemed to be of college age, it was clearly an ethnically diverse crowd. It also quickly became evident that this protest was not just about Donald Trump. As Tzedek member Liz Rose subsequently wrote in her post for the blog Mondoweiss:
People came primarily to protest Trump, of course. But they were trying to draw attention to other pertinent issues as well (issues which might only worsen if Trump is elected). The diverse crowd was a convergence of these frustrations. Some protesters carried signs calling for Anita Alvarez to leave Chicago with Trump (Alvarez is the District Attorney who waited a year before bringing murder charges against the officer in the Laquan McDonald case). Many Chicago public school teachers were at the rally, wearing the red t-shirts that marked the 2012 strike (the Chicago Teachers' Union is currently prepared to strike again if an agreement cannot be reached regarding their contract). Black Lives Matter signs and t-shirts were seen throughout the crowds as well, joined by chanting of the now-famous phrase…A scattering of signs showing solidarity with Palestine could be seen throughout the rally.
When word spread through the crowd that Trump had cancelled his event, we were quite simply, dumbstruck. None of us expected this to happen, nor did we ever believe it to be the goal of the protest. At any rate, our shock soon turned to joy and celebration when we realized that together, we had managed to keep the world's most public purveyor of hate speech from speaking in Chicago.
After celebrating the moment, a group of us walked over to a nearby park and made kiddush and motzi together. It was, as I has suspected it would be, a Shabbat like no other.
Many of us had friends who were on the inside of the pavilion who told us later that there was no real violence in the arena either. Contrary to news reports, the attendees waited together fairly quietly until it was officially announced that the rally was being cancelled. At that point, anti-Trump protestors started cheering and celebrating. This precipitated some scuffling, pushing and shoving in some parts of the arena. But as my friends all reported to me, there was nothing they would describe as "violence."
In fact, considering that this protest had no clear leaders or organizers, the level of restraint we witnessed outside was quite remarkable – which is why I was truly dismayed to see our protest portrayed as a violent melee in news reports. That is, alas, the power of our 24 hour media. (I couldn't help but notice that TV reports on the protest repeated the same one or two clips of pushing and shoving over and over.)
I do believe that the media's characterization of these events follows a common narrative – one that repeatedly portrays street as protesters disruptive trouble makers who are only interested in shutting down freedom of speech. (Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement surely know this media narrative all to well.) In fact, as any who have attended such protests in Chicago will attest, the overwhelming majority of these protests are nonviolent actions organized to raise a collective voice against racism and injustice.
I'm also struck by those who claim that these kinds of protests infringe on "freedom of speech." It's a curious use of the term. The First Amendment of the Constitution, in fact, is intended to be a restriction on the government's ability to prohibit the public from exercising their freedom of speech. That certainly does not apply in this case. If Freedom of Speech has any relevance to this particular situation at all, it is that "we the people" had exercised our right to freely assemble and protest. (There are, however, laws that prohibit hate speech – laws that might certainly apply to one such as Trump.)
I can't vouch for what might have happened at rallies in other cities, but I suspect the protesters were nowhere near as violent as the media (and Trump) would have us believe. As a result, some on the left are counseling passivity and quiet is the best course of action in response to a "bigot and bully" such as Trump.
I disagree. Generations from now, we will be asked where we were during Trump's toxic Presidential campaign. I'm proud to say we were among those who stood up and kept him from spreading his hate in our city.


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Not so much a parody of the president, THAT'S MY BUSH tends to poke much more fun at sitcoms, only occasionally making some humorous jabs at our current U.S. leader (for the record, that was never the show's purpose - in fact, had Al Gore won the election, they still would've done the same thing, except with different characters and the title Absolute Al). The best way to envision it is as your normal cheesy sitcom, except being staged in the White House and starring George Bush. He's your standard sitcom character - a lovable buffoon. Then there's his loving wife, Laura, who's quite clearly the smarter of the two. Also included are other common sitcom characters - the back-talking maid, Maggie, the hot secretary, Princess, the quip-making neighbor who always barges in, Larry, and of course, Karl Rove (whom no sitcom is without).
While not nearly as hilarious or entertaining as SOUTH PARK, this live-action lampooning still delivers enough enjoyment to be worth your time. However, how much you enjoy it will probably depend on your ability to laugh not at the actual joke, but at the fact that the joke is a joke in itself. Confusing enough? Here, let me break it down: The show makes fun of sitcoms. The hilariously catchy theme song, the obnoxious laugh track (intact with "whoo"-ing whenever Princess, the hot secretary, walks in), the ridiculously clich� storylines, the cardboard-cutout characters, etc. - all of them feel straight out of a dumb, cheesy sitcom from the 70's or 80's. The difference here is that it's supposed to be dumb and cheesy. That's part of the joke. Of course, even if you get the joke, that doesn't mean you're gonna laugh at it. I sat with my friends watching this show and only about half of them even chuckled. Meanwhile, I was laughing my ass off about once every couple minutes. What can I say? I love self-parody.
Each episode of the show combines a basic sitcom storyline and a political issue, quite obviously leading to confusion, chaos, and hilarity. Here's a breakdown of the episodes...
An Aborted Dinner Date
Political Issue: Abortion.
Sitcom Storyline: Bush plans two meetings at the same time (a date with his wife, and a Pro-Life/Pro-Choice meeting), thinking he can go back and forth during the night leaving both parties none the wiser.
Episode Highlight: Felix, the aborted fetus that survived abortion.
A Poorly Executed Plan
Political Issue: The death penalty.
Sitcom Storyline: Unexpected friends from the past come to stay at the White House, and when George tries to kick them out, they argue that he's changed. In an attempt to prove that he's the same old Bush, he invites them to watch as he presides over a prisoner's execution.
Episode Highlight: A brief twisted flashback of Karl Rove's "fraternity"-days.
Eenie, Meenie, Miney, MURDER!
Political Issue: Gun rights.
Sitcom Storyline: A psychic tells Bush that he will be killed by somebody close to him, so he invites everybody he knows over for dinner in order to investigate them.
Episode Highlights: Charlton Heston, a bear, and a weird Irish guy acting like Ms. Clea (an obvious parody of Ms. Cleo) on a psychic hotline.
Political Issue: Electronic-based warfare.
Sitcom Storyline: Frustrated that he can't get cable, George's neighbor helps him to install an illegal hook up. Unfortunately, some wires cross, shooting a laser at Austria.
Episode Highlight: Princess buys some "smart pills" off the net that inadvertently increases the size of her fun bags.
The First Lady's Persqueeter
Political Issue: Assisted suicide.
Sitcom Storyline: George gets tired of Pum'kin, Laura's old and sick cat. Laura gets confused, and thinks George is grossed out by... um, a different kind of pussy.
Episode Highlight: Bush tries to kill a cat with a douche.
Mom 'E' D.E.A. Arrest
Political Issue: The war on drugs.
Sitcom Storyline: Intending to get tough on drugs, George makes an example of the one millionth drug offender by arresting him on live television. Meanwhile, his mom comes to visit, as well as make Laura's life miserable.
Episode Highlight: Bush on ecstasy.
Trapped in a Small Environment
Political Issue: Oil drilling.
Sitcom Storyline: After constant complications between George, Laura, Karl, Mrs. Rove, Larry, Maggie, Princess, and Kanooknook the Eskimo, they all resolve their differences through being stuck together in random places.
Episode Highlight: Hilarious 10-second resolutions between all of the characters.
Fare Thee Welfare
Political Issue: Welfare.
Sitcom Storyline: George is forced to resign and ends up living in a trashy apartment. Meanwhile, Cheney takes over and George keeps getting fired from an assortment of low-end jobs.
Episode Highlight: Joke intros to "Cheers", "The Jeffersons", "Welcome Back Kotter", and more.
Commentary-Mini's (with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone): These quick audio tracks are just as awesomely entertaining as they are on the SOUTH PARK DVDs. Sure, it'd be great if they were longer, but getting mini-commentaries is better than none. Plus, it allows for you to get all the information you want much quicker. Parker and Stone are loaded with humor and fun facts, so even though they only last about four minutes, each track is hilarious and to-the-point.
Commentary-Mini's (with the cast): These tracks are still entertaining, but they're way too chaotic and unfocused. With all the people speaking, it's hard to keep up. The reason Trey and Matt's brief commentaries work so well is because it's only two people - they know what they need to say and the just say it. Here, the cast is simply reminiscing while they themselves watch the show. They constantly talk over each other, and don't even seem to have much to say.
As for packaging, there's a cardboard exterior that slides out two slim-line keep cases (each of which holds one of the two discs). Simple, but nice and convenient.

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Quentin walks in, shoulders slouched and on the defensive. He had promised his aunt he'd let this woman work on his troubled psyche, but that didn't mean he had to like it.
@Quintessence_: Alexandra stepped out of her office wearing a black pencil skirt, a red satin blouse and matching pumps. "Hello, I'm Dr. Steele. Would you like to come inside?" She raised her eyebrows toward the newcomer and indicated the door to her office.
@The Psyentist: He gave her a glare that indicated that he very much did NOT want to go inside, but started moving to the door anyway. "Quentin Karaii. My aunt called I think."
@Quintessence_: "Ah, yes. Mr. Karaii. Well, I appreciate you coming in to see me. I take it that this wasn't your idea. I'll try to make this painless." She smiled sweetly. "You may have a seat anywhere you'd like." The doctor sat herself in her chair, brushing her back her soft, blonde locks and clearing her throat.
@The Psyentist: Well, at least this wasn't one of the overly-cheery types that grated on Quentin's nerves as if they were trying to make it even more like Swiss Cheese. He took a seat in a couch furthest from the doctor
@Quintessence_: "I won't bite." She smirked. "So, Mr.Karaii, why did you aunt suggest you come to me?" The doctor tilted her head awaiting his reply.
@The Psyentist: Quentin sighed. "Acute Bipolar Disorder, diagnosed several years ago, I've been on...uh..." He rummages in his messenger bag. "These things" He tosses the bottle of pills to the doctor.
@Quintessence_: Alexandra caught the bottle and examined it, taking note of the formulation. "I see. Has the medication helped at all? Any troubling side effects?"
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@Quintessence_: "Really?" She raised her eyebrows and leaned forward with intense interest. "That sounds absolutely fascinating. But as a psychiatrist, I can imagine humanity doesn't seem worthy. However, Mr. Karaii, heroism is less about others, and more about you." The doctor gave a small smile.
@DarkKnightDetective: Alexandra breezed into the room. "Well, hello. I'm Dr. Steele... I'm not interrupting anything, am I?" She raised an eyebrow.
@The Psyentist: Huh...she might not believe him, but she was putting on a pretty good show. "Right! If I don't want to save anyone, I don't have to. Not my problem."
@The Psyentist: His face does not change as he stands up and says." Let's get this over with" and the proceeds by rudely getting into her office and sitting down in the chair.
@Quintessence_: "You're right." She nodded. "You certainly don't have to save people if it doesn't weigh on your conscious. You make your own decisions with your power. Frankly, I've seen many who've done worse with superpowers."
@DarkKnightDetective: "Well, I do hope our meeting won't be too dull." She sat down gingerly across from him. "But that is entirely up to you. May I ask your name, sir?"
@The Psyentist: "Yeah, I don't hurt people." There's a certain light behind his eyes now. He's started to talk about one of his passions, and his foul mood is vanishing. "And I can control it pretty well. I don't shoot eye beams or anything, not usually anyway. Though I can't fly most of the time either, which sucks."
@Quintessence_: "I can imagine flying is convenient. And you are fortunate in that. Many of the metahumans who come through my office can't control their abilities. As you can imagine, that is a very dangerous affair. So, you don't hurt people, but you don't always save them. How do you feel when you do save people, using your powers for a purpose?"
@The Psyentist: " I am Dark Vengance". he answers in a serious voice, as he plans in his head what he will say next.
@DarkKnightDetective: "Well... that is quite thematic. Do you have repartee to go with that nomenclature?"
@The Psyentist: "It's okay. Sometimes it's nice. It's not that easy to find crime though, so I don't get to do much with my powers most of the time. I don't know." He shrugs.
Angel walks in to the waiting room with a look of reluctance on his face, He looks over at the dripping water cooler and over at the chairs. "I'm bored already"
Angel sits down on the comfortable chair and flips through the magazines on the coffee table "Home and living, Home Styles, Your Home and You, Cooking at Home,I should have brought something from home"
Angel rests his head back in the chair and closes his eyes.
@Quintessence_: "Maybe you aren't looking hard enough... evil lurks in the most usual places." Alexandra grinned. "Have you considered joining a team?"
@AmazingAngel: "What would you prefer?" Alexandra leaned on her doorway. "Be careful how you answer. I'm trained in psychotherapy." The doctor smirked. "I'm Dr. Steele. Can I help you?" She stepped forward in her black, patent leather pumps.
@The Psyentist: "mmmhh" he grunts as he grinds his teeth.
@DarkKnightDetective: "That is a terrible sound." She grimaced at the sound of grinding teeth. "What brings you here today, Dark Vengence?" The blonde woman stared at him plainly.
@The Psyentist: "Allies, they believe that I am too cold, and my friends say that I make barriers." he answers with a numb face.
@DarkKnightDetective: Alexandra nodded. "That is a definite downside of alliances. People expect their comrades to be open with them. Why do you suppose they find you cold and detached?"
@The Psyentist: "Because I am, because being too open with people shows weakness and I can't have that."
@The Psyentist: "Trained in psychotherapy huh, so if I request anything with fast cars of yachts I'm overcompensating for a small peep, anything with video games and I'm a violent sociopath and I don't even want to know what you'd think about me requesting a pro wrestling and bodybuilding magazine."
Angel stood to his feet and approached the doctor, "I just want some help with a recurring dream I've been having, no oedipus complexes, no Freudian super ego's and no role playing cops and prisoners like you guys seem to love." Angel smirked and tilted his head, taking off his sunglasses. He sat back down to the chair and picked up a magazine with the title 'Small Cars and Modest Houses Monthly' He crossed his legs and rested the magazine on his lap looking back at the doctor.
@DarkKnightDetective: "Au contrair. Being open shows one has no weaknesses. People who hold back, who hide are the ones who are afraid that someone will find some flaw and exploit it."
@AmazingAngel: Alexandra laughed. "Something like that." She winked. "Well, we can discuss the dream." She raised a finger, her red lips curling into a smile. "I'd like to think I'm in a class of my own. Now, tell me about this dream. But first, do you have a name?" She sat down in the chair at the center of her office.
@The Psyentist: "But I have flaws, that's why I must hide them. Take secret identities as a example, they all know who each other is except for who I am, If any of them is telepathically attacked and their identities are leaked, they don't just put themselves and their families at risk, they also put the others' families at risk."
@DarkKnightDetective: "Of course, but if you're going to play the "what if" game, a telepath could assault you and reveal you identity. Risk is part of life, part of all attachments." Alexandra leaned forward, her hair falling around her face as she looked at him intently. "I've treated humans and metahumans alike. Part of mental health is attachment and vulnerability. Your comrades suggested you be more open because they care about you. They like what little you've shown of yourself. They trust you, they want you to trust them."
@The Psyentist: "A telepath couldn't attack me because I block telepath waves with a that I built into my suit device into my suit, and risk is not a part of life, because risk is fear and I prepare for fear".
@DarkKnightDetective: Alexandra smirked, quite satisfied with this newfound knowledge. Devices could be easily bypassed when their existence was known. "You keep your suit on all the time? Damn shame." She turned her head. "Prepare for fear? Do you know much of the concept? Risk is only fear-arousing when fear is already present. Those who do not have fear can afford to take risks."
@The Psyentist: "Risks are not allowed in my world".
@DarkKnightDetective: "Well... you mean the risks you are aware of." She leaned her head back, her eyes resting on him strangely.
@The Psyentist: "I know all the risks". He smirks in a almost diabolical manner.
@DarkKnightDetective: Alexandra blinked at him disbelievingly. "Really? You think you can stop anything with just what's on your utility belt?"
Still smirking as he points to his brain and says "No, with this".
@DarkKnightDetective: "Metahuman then, I take it?" She raised an eyebrow.
@The Psyentist: His face now serious "Are you a metahuman?"
@DarkKnightDetective: "No, I just treat them." She lied with the skill of a complete sociopath.
@The Psyentist: "What type of metahumans do you treat here exactly? Am I really your first unpowered? He says untruthfully.
@DarkKnightDetective: "Oh, no. I treat humans as well. I have seen humans, mutants, aliens, demons... all sorts." She spoke cooly. Given his apparent reliance on his suit, she assumed his declaration of his 'normal' humanity to be genuine.
@The Psyentist: "Are all of them as tall, handsome, and brooding as I am?". He says in a almost serious manner.
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