The Atlantic has published many other pieces like this : https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/how-settler-colonialism-colonized-universities/679514/ by https://www.theatlantic.com/author/adam-kirsch/ . I skimmed his book : On Settler Colonialism : Ideology, Violence, and Justice. Found it rather shallow. Far more convincing to me , https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780437/the-world-after-gaza-by-pankaj-mishra/ .
Via https://aish.com/the-anthropologist-deconstructing-antizionism/ . The one assertion in the article below, with an element of truth ; " the Soviet Union took on antizionist ideology as part of its agitation against the United States." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/abs/origins-and-development-of-soviet-antisemitism-an-analysis/99945786B60F74C869F8F1E36BE7280E ," Especially disquieting is the massive anti-Zionist propaganda campaign which incorporates the traditional negative stereotypes of Jews." Such as Yuri Ivanov’s Caution: Zionism!, reviewed here, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/11/16/selling-anti-semitism-in-moscow/ , https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1973/11/29/soviet-anti-semitism/ , https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1974/03/07/soviet-anti-semitism/ . "Adam Louis-Klein was a left-wing Yale philosophy grad, conducting fieldwork among indigenous Amazonians for his PhD in anthropology. Completely cut off from the world, he finally got online, and the horrors of October 7th hit him like a freight train -- and what he saw in his own academic circles shook him even more. Today he runs one of the most effective anti-antizionism organizations in the Jewish world. This is how he got there. Adam was born in London and grew up in Seattle. He had a Bar Mitzvah, visited Israel, and was involved in Jewish life at Yale, but after college he drifted away from Judaism entirely. "I joined a far-left group called Socialist Alternative," he says. "I was very into communism." His undergraduate degree was in philosophy, and he became obsessed with Alain Badiou, a French Maoist philosopher. After Yale, he pursued a Master's in philosophy, then another in anthropology. Along the way, he discovered The Amazonian Cosmos by anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, a dense, metaphysical account of an ancient indigenous cosmology. He was hooked. When Adam began his Ph.D. at McGill University in Montreal, he decided to dedicate his dissertation to the Desano people described in Reichel-Dolmatoff's book. Through American Christian missionaries active in the region, he found his way to a small Desano village deep in the Amazon... Spending time with the Desano gave Adam a new lens on indigeneity itself. The Desano trace their origins to a sacred homeland where they once lived under a single chief. Eventually there was conflict, dispersal, diaspora – and they even displaced another tribe in the process. "There's immigration, war, displacement," Adam says, "but no one's going to call the Desano settler colonists because immigration, displacement, and war are just history." What defines an indigenous people, he came to understand, isn't that they never moved. It's that a sacred territory anchors their identity, history, and culture. That insight would soon become central to everything. Return to Civilization On October 9th, 2023, Adam connected to the internet for the first time in months. "The first thing I saw was the news of the massacre," he says. "And the second thing was how people in my left-wing academic environments were reacting. What I saw was so shocking and so immoral. I saw that this was a hate movement. It was unlike anything I'd ever witnessed in my life." ... His training as an anthropologist gave him an immediate clarity that others lacked. The entire antizionist narrative, he saw, rested on a single claim: that Jews are foreign colonizers in the Land of Israel. "It's not a fringe belief," he says. "It's the foundational element of antizionist ideology." And to someone who had spent months studying indigenous peoples, that claim made no sense. "The settler colonial reading was erasing Jewish indigeneity. Jews have migrated around the world, but Israel is their homeland – the sacred site through which Jews have defined their identity throughout history. Jews are an ethno-religious people, not simply a faith disconnected from peoplehood." <SNIP> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42607): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42607 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120402323/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
