It seems to me that when an incident happens that causes outrage, all too often people will fall straight into two opposing camps with absolutely no room for grey areas or nuance. It also seems to me this is how the culture war is stoked and inflamed to keep it constantly raging on the go. When a culture war is raging, any hope of dialogue is crushed as people take sides and refuse to even consider listening to an opposing viewpoint, let alone engaging with it.
Putting all this contemporary fuss aside and going to the past. There was a jewish anarchist and zionist called Bernard Lazare, he was a zionist because it was the only choice for a jew in a time when you are hated by society –Dreyfus affair.
But as the time passed he noted a degeneration in the zionist movement into just one more nationalistic sect and he dropped out. His ambitions was of turning the zionist and the international struggle for all people into one and the same struggle.
Here in this good oldie anarchist jornal 'Resistance' are more details of this fascinating man in the chapter where a written work and the life of Lazare is reviewed:
Thanks for talking sense as always.
Putting all this contemporary fuss aside and going to the past. There was a jewish anarchist and zionist called Bernard Lazare, he was a zionist because it was the only choice for a jew in a time when you are hated by society –Dreyfus affair.
But as the time passed he noted a degeneration in the zionist movement into just one more nationalistic sect and he dropped out. His ambitions was of turning the zionist and the international struggle for all people into one and the same struggle.
Here in this good oldie anarchist jornal 'Resistance' are more details of this fascinating man in the chapter where a written work and the life of Lazare is reviewed:
https://libcom.org/article/resistance-vol-6-no-9-march-april-1948
Such a journal has more quality than anything coming from our 'culture wars' ravaged soil.