Recently in an article you criticised one of my heroes, Gideon Levy. Today you criticised another of my heroes Avi Shlaim. In both cases you were justified. Thanks for your honesty and compassion.
One of the many perverse things about Zionist ideology is that it insists that, for example, an Dutch speaking atheist yuppie from Amsterdam has the same nationality in common with a (despised) Ethiopian or a Hassid, solely on the basis of ancestry.
Its "blood and soil" all over again, except Zionism steals the soil.
I think the rest of the world has hesitated to condemn zionism because of their GUILT at the abhorrent treatment of Jews during the German madness/holocaust.
BUT the zionist 'Israelis' are Ashkenazi Jews and not semitic, they are Poles and Russians and Germans and Ukrainians etc and they should have stayed where they were and demanded reparations there, NOT invade another country and systematically destroy the Palestinian's homes and lands, in a nutshell, doing what was done to them.
What is said? ''the abused become abusers..''
Except the Palestinians had NOTHING to do with the Holocaust.
Yes…Thousands of European Jews did stay where they were, wanting to assimilate, thrive, and be part of the healing. Many more wanted to stay but were persuaded or coerced into emigrating to Palestine. Those two groups of Jews have been written out of Zionist history.
Thank you so much for the many essential truths in this article. For me the most useful one right now is this:
“…the genocidal intent and plan are evident from the start of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century — almost eight decades before Israel was created.”
Just look at how Zionists try to squeeze sympathy for their imagined persecution, and then slander actual Holocaust survivors who protest the genocide. See how they play both ends against the middle with their pretzel logic.
This is the core of the movement and people need to understand that Zionism is the KKK, the Third Reich, and Christopher Columbus all rolled up together.
I think every "major" religion has something in its core which is deeply problematic. In my view (but not just mine), for Christianity, it's the concept of humans being born sinners and needing to be "saved" by God's sacrifice of his Son on Earth. For Buddhism, it's the idea of humans as "meat puppets" who seek "enlightenment" through many lifetimes. Just 2 examples. I credit these problematic concepts to the inherent vulnerability and tension of being human, even in good circumstances. We suffer in various ways, and we know we will die, and we DO die. We seek an elusive meaning to life, and answers to mysteries than remain unanswerable. Do we then give up on religion? I don't know, but I have left Judaism, because the Zionism tangled up in it is unbearable to me. It is an emotional amputation, and the most shattering disappointment of my life
In the “The Next Development in Man,” a book I discovered through the Whole Earth Catalog in my twenties, Lancelot Law Whyte described Jewishness as an intensified version of Europeanness—what we now call “whiteness’? (“the two must collapse together”), and wrote, “When the Jew finally renounces his tradition it will be a sign that a unitary society is already in sight.” Those words absolutely riveted me then and I have never forgotten them.
Of course. You are absolutely right. Whyte was clearly talking about European, Ashkenazi Jews, settler colonialists like so many other Europeans. I've actually tried to write about what you say so well—that many Ashkenazim, culminating in Israel, have gone all-out to claim their share of white chauvinism.
You gave me some things to think about. I've found any nationalism sus because of the exclusion you're identifying in Zionism. What I'm curious about is rejecting Jewish cultural identity.
I'm not Jewish so I won't pretend to have any idea what that is. I feel culture which is about language and affirmations of who a people are by their artifacts, rituals, language is always lovely as long as it's recognizing dignity for everyone inside.
You can't control how people outside treat you but you can decide to treat everyone with consideration and respect if at least your culture has practices about dignity for everyone.
I came to this from my exposure to Native American and African cultures. I'm asking this because I think it's possible for culture to be a positive thing.
If Jewish people decide they are not Jews what does that mean? What parts of your cultural heritage do you hold onto.
I'm just genuinely curious. I've seen ethnocentrism in my own family I don't care for it. I find it bizarre at best.
I just thought this as I wrote this thinking of my own family. I am happy to learn or go into cultural things about us. But when they're used as political justification I have a real problem.
Thank you for your comments and for reading my essays. There is a useful concept from family therapy that helps answer your very good question. Imagine you have a big chest, I always imagine a pirate’s chest, that contains all the inheritance passed down to you from the generations before you.
Every growing and developing human being needs to open this imaginary chest, sit in front of it and start going through what’s inside. The items that help your development and growth to your potential you keep and anything that doesn’t and that is harmful, has to go.
When I looked a the chest containing my Jewish heritage I couldn’t find anything useful in it. Judaism and Jewishness are based on fear of the other. They are insular, and require the individual to dedicate their entire life and abilities to the purpose of the preserving and protecting the group. It is the highest value in this group, which therefore identifies it as having the psychology of a cult. The individual only matters in so far as they play their role for the group and support its survival and continuation.
Jewishness isn’t a positive, growth-promoting identity. It is fear-based. When I started to recover from my childhood trauma, it became obvious to me that living in fear was not an option. It meant that Jewish identity also had to go. I don’t live in fear and do not need to belong to any group to feel protected. I am a human being first and a member of any group I happen to be a member of second. But even at a very basic level, what exactly makes me Jewish if I don’t adhere to any version of Jewish religion or tradition and don’t identify with any of the philosophies or worldviews? My ‘blood’? ‘Race’ is a fictitious, unscientific concept. We invented it to justify the crazy hierarchies we invented out of our primitive brains. And either way, Jewishness is certainly not a race.
In my mid-twenties, still in Israel, I studied Jewish religion at university to try to understand what it was I objected to. Everything I learned only validated what I already sensed was problematic for me. If you are seeking a way of life based on certainty with rules and regulations that govern your every waking moment and to live in fear, Jewishness is for you. But that’s not the life I want to live.
If Jewish religion or identity lose their fear, insularity, suspicion, and obsession with the survival of the group, perhaps something can be found to help it transform into some kind of new Jewishness. Not only do I not see this happening, I don’t actually need to have a label of any kind. Human is a good enough label that describes me perfectly, and for my part I’m always working to become as fully human as I can be. I’m curious about what humans are capable of and always pushing in that direction as a person and in my work as a psychotherapist.
I love diversity and the diversity of life on Earth and within humanity need to be seen for what they are — a source of health, strength and enrichment. They don’t have to be a source of conflict or competition. But we are still a very limited and primitive species — not that well put together. Please look at my podcasts, especially 1-3. You might find them interesting because they are about this very topic.
Thanks I originally didn't want to talk about my ethnicity and heritage sometimes I don't bring it up in public because I've had people essentialize me or tried to define me based on the little they know about us. It's always disappointing. Every time I encounter that I wonder about why they need to put me in or anyone into a box
When I was teaching at a Native American organization I had opportunities to think more about culture and heritage.
I've always been suspicious about narratives that make out everything was fine with cultures even indigenous ones before imperialism and whiteness changed the world for the worse because I've learned about gender problems among other things.
I've come around to thinking if a cultural tradition or practice isn't about giving everyone dignity and agency it needs to go.
When people ask me how I define myself I have many identities and so many experiences and parts to myself it feels limiting to put one label on myself that has to do with who I was born as where I was born and to whom when I had no choice in the matter.
I'm much more interested in what I have made myself when I get asked how do I see myself I tell people as Banji not my gender, my race, even though those are part of me and I have to navigate the world with those things I didn't create, I don't necessarily agree with but are so concrete.
Thanks so much for your answer. When I wrote my first post I felt myself becoming consciously aware of the difference between Judaism and Jewishness that I'd been contemplating for some time
It doesn’t matter what cultures were like before colonialism. Humans were always humans and they were always horrible. There was human sacrifice a few hundreds of years ago, and massacres of women and children 20,000 ago. The point is colonialism was extremely deadly and harmful. What difference does it make to the criminality of colonialism what culture were like before? Do victims have to be perfect? Is a rape justified because the victim isn’t a very nice person? Your thinking is a bit either-or here… We haven’t chance in essence from the appearance of modern humans. Colonialism is still horrible and did terrible damage that left a horrendous legacy. It still does.
I agree with you about colonialism. I grew up with the impacts of colonialism very present I could see them everyday. I an also don't think that just because people did horrible things in the past that it's ok if horrible things are being done now. What I really care about is what is happening now. I care about the what has happened in living memory because there's still people around who experienced things in the 1920s. Actions in the 1850s still impact us and their harms are ongoing.
I'm also not really into debating which was worse. I think my desire to understand this and what I've learned about anti-semitism is what I'm trying understand. There's other things about being of African descent I'm thinking about.
I've always liked the idea of just being judged by what we do and valued for our individual uniqueness and not being put in boxes.
Thanks I think I'll step back after I reread your article.
I'm ignorant about the religious aspect however I've always argued that Zionism, as a settler-colonial project, can never have a peaceful existence, let alone coexistence.
The very essence of Zionism, like it's sinister sibling projects, i.e. occupation of the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., is removing the indigenous population and culture and replacing it with that of the occupying settlers. It's foundation is ethnic cleansing and stealing land.
This principal fact, which you clearly pointed out, is insidiously suppressed by using phrases like "Israel's right to exist" or "right to defend" or "two state solution".
Thank you for this very open essay. The hysteria when the term ‘Jewish supremacy’ is used by anyone other than said supremacists thenselves is something to behold.
We are content to say Islamic extremism and Christian fundamentalism. And rightly so.
I agree no identity- religion, culture- should be above critique. And that being politely inquisitive and critical of someone’s religion is not the same as bigotry or persecution.
I do wonder what the term ‘ethnicity’ means to you. I’ve seen it being used in this context especially when there has been pushback against Jews being a race.
I’m not sure to be honest what ‘ethnicity’ means and I’m not alone. The concept is actually quite contested even among social scientists and anthropologists.
At its most basic, ethnicity refers to a shared sense of group identity based on a combination of things — common ancestry (real or imagined), shared culture, language, history, traditions, sometimes religion. The key word is ‘shared’ — ethnicity is as much about what a group believes about itself as about any objective external criteria.
What makes it tricky is that it's not biological — that's race, which is itself a constructed fictitious category — but it's not purely cultural either. It’s somewhere between the two, and the boundaries are always fuzzy and contested. People can have multiple ethnic identities, or switch identification depending on context. Ethnic identity can be imposed from outside as much as claimed from within.
Some anthropologists argue ethnicity is essentially a modern political construct — that what we call ethnic groups are often communities whose boundaries have been hardened and politicised for particular historical reasons, often by colonialism or nationalism. I don’t think I have an ethnicity, or rather I’d reject anyone’s attempt to assign one to me… I don’t need it.
Thanks. There doesn’t have to be one definition. Whilst race is (should be) based on physical characteristics only, ethnicity as you say seems more vague. However under the Equality Act, the protected characteristics of race include any of- skin colour, nationality, national origin and ethnicity.
Ethnicity being taken to mean the shared attributes you mention but not physical characteristics.
Now Sikhism and Judaism are both a religion and an ethnicity in the UK. Not other religions. It’s ridiculous as the ethnicity of virtually all Sikhs is Punjabi. However most ethnic Punjabis are Pakistani Muslims.
The effect is the elevation of ‘Jewish’ to a protected characteristic. And therefore antisemitism qualifies as a form of racism; Islamophobia does not.
Scientifically race doesn’t exist. The human species has the narrowest genetic diversity in all of nature and all humans share 99.9% of their DNA. All our differences are superficial and are accounted for by the 0.1%. We are all descendent from a relatively small number of breeding pairs who survived some horrible cataclysm about 70,000 years ago that changed the climate rapidly and nearly destroyed our kind completely. I think culture is real but ethnicity is probably as fictitious as race. But either way diversity is healthy and should be a source of enrichment and strength not of division. Humans are so primitive they are obsessed with hierarchy and classification. We may well be a failed species… unless we develop beyond what we are now.
Recently in an article you criticised one of my heroes, Gideon Levy. Today you criticised another of my heroes Avi Shlaim. In both cases you were justified. Thanks for your honesty and compassion.
I’m so sorry. 😳
Constructive criticism inherently aims to encourage self reflection & improvement. Nobody should be above this type of criticism.
Brilliant and insightful in ways I don’t find in many other writers. Bravo again to you for the depths you explore and explain.
One of the many perverse things about Zionist ideology is that it insists that, for example, an Dutch speaking atheist yuppie from Amsterdam has the same nationality in common with a (despised) Ethiopian or a Hassid, solely on the basis of ancestry.
Its "blood and soil" all over again, except Zionism steals the soil.
I think the rest of the world has hesitated to condemn zionism because of their GUILT at the abhorrent treatment of Jews during the German madness/holocaust.
BUT the zionist 'Israelis' are Ashkenazi Jews and not semitic, they are Poles and Russians and Germans and Ukrainians etc and they should have stayed where they were and demanded reparations there, NOT invade another country and systematically destroy the Palestinian's homes and lands, in a nutshell, doing what was done to them.
What is said? ''the abused become abusers..''
Except the Palestinians had NOTHING to do with the Holocaust.
Zionist, genocidal Israhell is a British project ...
Lots of oil, gas, sea-transit-routes, commerce, control, power, etc., etc. ...
All things that let the evil elites of a former world-empire have wet-dreams to this very day.
Bloody Adolf (not him alone of course !!!) ignited the final spark for the colonial settlement and all further following atrocities.
Some people could even consider it a continuation of the crusades ...
Yes…Thousands of European Jews did stay where they were, wanting to assimilate, thrive, and be part of the healing. Many more wanted to stay but were persuaded or coerced into emigrating to Palestine. Those two groups of Jews have been written out of Zionist history.
Thank you Avigail for another brilliant article. You're bringing information to my attention I never knew.
Thank you so much for the many essential truths in this article. For me the most useful one right now is this:
“…the genocidal intent and plan are evident from the start of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century — almost eight decades before Israel was created.”
Just look at how Zionists try to squeeze sympathy for their imagined persecution, and then slander actual Holocaust survivors who protest the genocide. See how they play both ends against the middle with their pretzel logic.
This is the core of the movement and people need to understand that Zionism is the KKK, the Third Reich, and Christopher Columbus all rolled up together.
This article about Christian Zionism is well worth a read:
The Rapture Lobby: Christian Zionism and America’s Holy War in Iran
April 7, 2026
https://globalextremism.org/post/christian-zionism-and-americas-holy-war-in-iran/
Thanks for the link to this incisive description of Christian Zionism in its current manifestation.
I think every "major" religion has something in its core which is deeply problematic. In my view (but not just mine), for Christianity, it's the concept of humans being born sinners and needing to be "saved" by God's sacrifice of his Son on Earth. For Buddhism, it's the idea of humans as "meat puppets" who seek "enlightenment" through many lifetimes. Just 2 examples. I credit these problematic concepts to the inherent vulnerability and tension of being human, even in good circumstances. We suffer in various ways, and we know we will die, and we DO die. We seek an elusive meaning to life, and answers to mysteries than remain unanswerable. Do we then give up on religion? I don't know, but I have left Judaism, because the Zionism tangled up in it is unbearable to me. It is an emotional amputation, and the most shattering disappointment of my life
Thank you Janet and welcome.
In the “The Next Development in Man,” a book I discovered through the Whole Earth Catalog in my twenties, Lancelot Law Whyte described Jewishness as an intensified version of Europeanness—what we now call “whiteness’? (“the two must collapse together”), and wrote, “When the Jew finally renounces his tradition it will be a sign that a unitary society is already in sight.” Those words absolutely riveted me then and I have never forgotten them.
It’s on page 98; you can read it on Internet Archive. He also said “The European … is a particular distortion of the universal form of man.”
Of course. You are absolutely right. Whyte was clearly talking about European, Ashkenazi Jews, settler colonialists like so many other Europeans. I've actually tried to write about what you say so well—that many Ashkenazim, culminating in Israel, have gone all-out to claim their share of white chauvinism.
Whoa!!! Fascinating. Thanks.
Thank you for this piece, translated in French here : https://zanzibar.substack.com/p/le-sionisme-a-toujours-ete-genocidaire
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.
Your publications are pertinent and a pleasure to share with a French public
I’m very grateful!
You're welcome.
You gave me some things to think about. I've found any nationalism sus because of the exclusion you're identifying in Zionism. What I'm curious about is rejecting Jewish cultural identity.
I'm not Jewish so I won't pretend to have any idea what that is. I feel culture which is about language and affirmations of who a people are by their artifacts, rituals, language is always lovely as long as it's recognizing dignity for everyone inside.
You can't control how people outside treat you but you can decide to treat everyone with consideration and respect if at least your culture has practices about dignity for everyone.
I came to this from my exposure to Native American and African cultures. I'm asking this because I think it's possible for culture to be a positive thing.
If Jewish people decide they are not Jews what does that mean? What parts of your cultural heritage do you hold onto.
I'm just genuinely curious. I've seen ethnocentrism in my own family I don't care for it. I find it bizarre at best.
I just thought this as I wrote this thinking of my own family. I am happy to learn or go into cultural things about us. But when they're used as political justification I have a real problem.
Thanks
Thank you for your comments and for reading my essays. There is a useful concept from family therapy that helps answer your very good question. Imagine you have a big chest, I always imagine a pirate’s chest, that contains all the inheritance passed down to you from the generations before you.
Every growing and developing human being needs to open this imaginary chest, sit in front of it and start going through what’s inside. The items that help your development and growth to your potential you keep and anything that doesn’t and that is harmful, has to go.
When I looked a the chest containing my Jewish heritage I couldn’t find anything useful in it. Judaism and Jewishness are based on fear of the other. They are insular, and require the individual to dedicate their entire life and abilities to the purpose of the preserving and protecting the group. It is the highest value in this group, which therefore identifies it as having the psychology of a cult. The individual only matters in so far as they play their role for the group and support its survival and continuation.
Jewishness isn’t a positive, growth-promoting identity. It is fear-based. When I started to recover from my childhood trauma, it became obvious to me that living in fear was not an option. It meant that Jewish identity also had to go. I don’t live in fear and do not need to belong to any group to feel protected. I am a human being first and a member of any group I happen to be a member of second. But even at a very basic level, what exactly makes me Jewish if I don’t adhere to any version of Jewish religion or tradition and don’t identify with any of the philosophies or worldviews? My ‘blood’? ‘Race’ is a fictitious, unscientific concept. We invented it to justify the crazy hierarchies we invented out of our primitive brains. And either way, Jewishness is certainly not a race.
In my mid-twenties, still in Israel, I studied Jewish religion at university to try to understand what it was I objected to. Everything I learned only validated what I already sensed was problematic for me. If you are seeking a way of life based on certainty with rules and regulations that govern your every waking moment and to live in fear, Jewishness is for you. But that’s not the life I want to live.
If Jewish religion or identity lose their fear, insularity, suspicion, and obsession with the survival of the group, perhaps something can be found to help it transform into some kind of new Jewishness. Not only do I not see this happening, I don’t actually need to have a label of any kind. Human is a good enough label that describes me perfectly, and for my part I’m always working to become as fully human as I can be. I’m curious about what humans are capable of and always pushing in that direction as a person and in my work as a psychotherapist.
I love diversity and the diversity of life on Earth and within humanity need to be seen for what they are — a source of health, strength and enrichment. They don’t have to be a source of conflict or competition. But we are still a very limited and primitive species — not that well put together. Please look at my podcasts, especially 1-3. You might find them interesting because they are about this very topic.
Thank you again.
Thanks I originally didn't want to talk about my ethnicity and heritage sometimes I don't bring it up in public because I've had people essentialize me or tried to define me based on the little they know about us. It's always disappointing. Every time I encounter that I wonder about why they need to put me in or anyone into a box
When I was teaching at a Native American organization I had opportunities to think more about culture and heritage.
I've always been suspicious about narratives that make out everything was fine with cultures even indigenous ones before imperialism and whiteness changed the world for the worse because I've learned about gender problems among other things.
I've come around to thinking if a cultural tradition or practice isn't about giving everyone dignity and agency it needs to go.
When people ask me how I define myself I have many identities and so many experiences and parts to myself it feels limiting to put one label on myself that has to do with who I was born as where I was born and to whom when I had no choice in the matter.
I'm much more interested in what I have made myself when I get asked how do I see myself I tell people as Banji not my gender, my race, even though those are part of me and I have to navigate the world with those things I didn't create, I don't necessarily agree with but are so concrete.
Thanks so much for your answer. When I wrote my first post I felt myself becoming consciously aware of the difference between Judaism and Jewishness that I'd been contemplating for some time
It doesn’t matter what cultures were like before colonialism. Humans were always humans and they were always horrible. There was human sacrifice a few hundreds of years ago, and massacres of women and children 20,000 ago. The point is colonialism was extremely deadly and harmful. What difference does it make to the criminality of colonialism what culture were like before? Do victims have to be perfect? Is a rape justified because the victim isn’t a very nice person? Your thinking is a bit either-or here… We haven’t chance in essence from the appearance of modern humans. Colonialism is still horrible and did terrible damage that left a horrendous legacy. It still does.
I agree with you about colonialism. I grew up with the impacts of colonialism very present I could see them everyday. I an also don't think that just because people did horrible things in the past that it's ok if horrible things are being done now. What I really care about is what is happening now. I care about the what has happened in living memory because there's still people around who experienced things in the 1920s. Actions in the 1850s still impact us and their harms are ongoing.
I'm also not really into debating which was worse. I think my desire to understand this and what I've learned about anti-semitism is what I'm trying understand. There's other things about being of African descent I'm thinking about.
I've always liked the idea of just being judged by what we do and valued for our individual uniqueness and not being put in boxes.
Thanks I think I'll step back after I reread your article.
I wish our complicit state and federal political leaders would read this and act accordingly!
Thank you for this deeply thoughtful and honest piece Avigail ♡
Excellent essay; music to my ears!
I'm ignorant about the religious aspect however I've always argued that Zionism, as a settler-colonial project, can never have a peaceful existence, let alone coexistence.
The very essence of Zionism, like it's sinister sibling projects, i.e. occupation of the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., is removing the indigenous population and culture and replacing it with that of the occupying settlers. It's foundation is ethnic cleansing and stealing land.
This principal fact, which you clearly pointed out, is insidiously suppressed by using phrases like "Israel's right to exist" or "right to defend" or "two state solution".
Thank you for clearly articulating this.
Thank you for your writing
Thank you for this very open essay. The hysteria when the term ‘Jewish supremacy’ is used by anyone other than said supremacists thenselves is something to behold.
We are content to say Islamic extremism and Christian fundamentalism. And rightly so.
I agree no identity- religion, culture- should be above critique. And that being politely inquisitive and critical of someone’s religion is not the same as bigotry or persecution.
People need to grow up.
I do wonder what the term ‘ethnicity’ means to you. I’ve seen it being used in this context especially when there has been pushback against Jews being a race.
I’m not sure to be honest what ‘ethnicity’ means and I’m not alone. The concept is actually quite contested even among social scientists and anthropologists.
At its most basic, ethnicity refers to a shared sense of group identity based on a combination of things — common ancestry (real or imagined), shared culture, language, history, traditions, sometimes religion. The key word is ‘shared’ — ethnicity is as much about what a group believes about itself as about any objective external criteria.
What makes it tricky is that it's not biological — that's race, which is itself a constructed fictitious category — but it's not purely cultural either. It’s somewhere between the two, and the boundaries are always fuzzy and contested. People can have multiple ethnic identities, or switch identification depending on context. Ethnic identity can be imposed from outside as much as claimed from within.
Some anthropologists argue ethnicity is essentially a modern political construct — that what we call ethnic groups are often communities whose boundaries have been hardened and politicised for particular historical reasons, often by colonialism or nationalism. I don’t think I have an ethnicity, or rather I’d reject anyone’s attempt to assign one to me… I don’t need it.
Thank you for taking the time to respond and for sharing this!! Much appreciated
Thanks. There doesn’t have to be one definition. Whilst race is (should be) based on physical characteristics only, ethnicity as you say seems more vague. However under the Equality Act, the protected characteristics of race include any of- skin colour, nationality, national origin and ethnicity.
Ethnicity being taken to mean the shared attributes you mention but not physical characteristics.
Now Sikhism and Judaism are both a religion and an ethnicity in the UK. Not other religions. It’s ridiculous as the ethnicity of virtually all Sikhs is Punjabi. However most ethnic Punjabis are Pakistani Muslims.
The effect is the elevation of ‘Jewish’ to a protected characteristic. And therefore antisemitism qualifies as a form of racism; Islamophobia does not.
Selective. And clearly intentional
Scientifically race doesn’t exist. The human species has the narrowest genetic diversity in all of nature and all humans share 99.9% of their DNA. All our differences are superficial and are accounted for by the 0.1%. We are all descendent from a relatively small number of breeding pairs who survived some horrible cataclysm about 70,000 years ago that changed the climate rapidly and nearly destroyed our kind completely. I think culture is real but ethnicity is probably as fictitious as race. But either way diversity is healthy and should be a source of enrichment and strength not of division. Humans are so primitive they are obsessed with hierarchy and classification. We may well be a failed species… unless we develop beyond what we are now.
Please look at the slides of my recent talk in Bath and Bristol for my take on the malaise of specialness that Israel Jewishness have been demanding… You’re absolutely right. (https://www.academia.edu/165250707/Avigail_Abarbanel_The_social_psychology_of_indoctrination_settler_colonialism_and_genocide_Delivered_in_Bristol_and_Bath_March_2026)
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