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Beginning of year thoughts

Site logo image Sabina Stan posted: " 🍉 Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. By Anti-Zionism I mean criticizing Israel's politics, and even the right for the state to exist in the current form. I don't mean that the state shouldn't exist at all. That's not feasible at so many levels right now." The joy of creating

Beginning of year thoughts

Sabina Stan

Jan 1

🍉 Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.

By Anti-Zionism I mean criticizing Israel's politics, and even the right for the state to exist in the current form. I don't mean that the state shouldn't exist at all. That's not feasible at so many levels right now. However, it's current form as an ethnic state is wrong because it's based on discrimination. I do agree Jews have the right for self - determination and should feel safe EVERYWHERE on this planet, not just in Israel. Nonetheless, excluding other people from living there on the bases of their religion or ethnicity is 1:1 discrimination and racism.

Being the victim of an aggression does not give one the right to become an agressor.

In Romania, anti-Semitism is illegal since 2018, which is good. However, saying Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism makes it illegal to criticize the state of Israel. Do you find it ok to not be able to criticize the politics of yours or another state?

During the last Pro-Palestine protests in Bucharest, people were gathered and taken to the police station because they were chanting "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". You may argue that this saying negates the existance of the state of Israel, however, it is not illegal to not recognize the existance of Palestine, so why should it be illegal to not recognize the form in which another state exists?

What if you got arrested for saying : "Basarabia, pământ românesc"?

If you are not allowed to voice your ideals than communication is not possible.

I know for some people islamophibia is too great for them to be able to empatize with millions of lives destroyed and tens of thousands of deaths, mostly children and women. I too dislike this religion greatly, but I do not fancy Christianity more either.

This leads me to my next thought for the begining of this year: monotheistic religions are based on sayings of schizophrenic men. Now you might think I mention this to laugh at people guiding their lives by what a man talking to a burning bush wrote down, but I actually have two very serious points to make:
🔶 ancient civilizations and societies praised people who now we consider "mentally ill" and were taking care of them as their purpose in the community was a spiritual and not a practical one.
🔶 written word has decided which societies are civilized and which are not. Nonetheless, the oral wisdom of those "savage", in some case, exterminated communities was more valid for a life lived in harmony with oneself and the environment (which is to say a happy and healthy life) than most of our "civilized" philosophies and laws.

"Mental illness" is considered to inflict suffering on the person, but the condition itself isn't the cause of suffering, it is the way (these) people are treated by/ in society. Some of these illnesses are caused by repressing emotions, living in an environment and at a pace not suited for us, and some of these "illnesses" are not illnesses at all, but a different conformation of the brain (as proven by brain scans) which causes one to see the world differently from what "the enlightened" men of the 17h and 18th century deemed "normal". These different people always existed, but the stressful and alienated living from what is organic to us that the cities brought about, made the different behaviours stand out and become "disturbing".

There isn't an influx of people with autism/ ADHD or queer people. We were always here, but now we have the power and information to self-asses who we are and express ourselves accordingly. However, there is an influx of autoimmune diseases. I bet everyone know someone with one. And if you don't, it's probably 'cause they don't feel comfortable sharing this information.

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