
I agree. That we can spread awareness about certain issues. But also I just feel like we’re talking about fantasy books. Sometimes it gets tiring ALWAYS bringing in politics in everything. I for one would like a space where we just talk about books (as the page suggests) not politics
dude this a weak argument. plenty of people have family members in the IDF or that have been in the IDF because of mandatory conscription. that doesn’t immediately make a person who is outside of israel a zionist. birthright isn’t funded by the israeli government, and if someone went 10+ years ago why are we holding it against them? also, some people remain silent for a reason. it doesn’t mean agreeing with the israeli government. it could be because their publisher threatened to drop them.
Most people who go on a “birthright” trip just do so because they want a free vacation, and most people don’t post their political views on social media especially if they have family members it’ll get them into a fight with (which I assume would be the case for someone with relatives in the IDF) Generally people who are going to be donating to Zionist causes aren’t exactly shy about their beliefs, if she was a Zionist she’d probably have openly said things that clearly indicate such…
SJM literally talked about how Israel is a magical place when she went there and how she felt touched. She has offered zero criticism of it. To be honest I talked about how she spoke of Breonna Taylor to let you know SJAss is a fucking asshole. Other than being a Zionist, she hates Black people and Irish people.
You’re not getting the point. Let’s say I became a billionaire author like SJAss. Let’s say my family played a part in a military force that brutalized your family and took away your land and your home. Would you like it if people were supporting me? Would you like it if I talked about how I talked about how “magical” the place is despite it originally being your home being occupied and your loved ones being brutalized?
Consuming Zionist propaganda doesn’t make you automatically a Zionist, it’s not like she’s funding birthright trips she took a paid for vacation most people who take those trips don’t know the purpose of them, that’s the whole point You’ve consumed Zionist propaganda too, does that make you a Zionist? No, of course it doesn’t
I’d be fine if people were supporting you because you had no part in what happened. If you were cheering on that military on social media, that’d be a different story, but she isn’t doing so. Do you want to be judged for your worst family member? Palestinians aren’t calling for this kind of boycott either, and shaming people for not doing so is a distraction from BDS