{"id":5497,"date":"2014-07-28T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T03:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:21:57","slug":"young-black-woman-zionist-shares-her-truths-about-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/young-black-woman-zionist-shares-her-truths-about-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Black woman Zionist shares her truths about Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>Chlo\u00e9 Simone Valdary is young Black non-Jewish woman Zionist who believes that the current worldwide campaign to create unfounded hatred of Jews and Israel has been artificially engineered by Arab oil magnates, and is funded with their fortunes. Chlo\u00e9 established the group \u201cAllies for Israel\u201d at the University of New Orleans where she studies, to fight “anti-Israel sentiment and anti-Semitism on campus”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Tablet Magazine Chlo\u00e9 explains why an anti-Israeli\/Jewish position is fundamentally wrong, especially for African Americans<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is prominent on many college campuses, preaching a mantra of \u201cFreeing Palestine.\u201d It masquerades as though it were a civil rights group when it is not. Indeed, as an African-American, I am highly insulted that my people\u2019s legacy is being pilfered for such a repugnant agenda. It is thus high time to expose its agenda and lay bare some of the fallacies they peddle.<\/p>\n

\u2022 If you seek to promulgate the legacy of early Islamic colonialists who raped and pillaged the Middle East, subjugated the indigenous peoples living in the region, and foisted upon them a life of persecution and degradation\u2014you do not get to claim the title of \u201cFreedom Fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 If you support a racist doctrine of Arab supremacism and wish (as a corollary of that doctrine) to destroy the Jewish state, you do not get to claim that the prejudices you peddle are forms of legitimate \u201cresistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 If your heroes are clerics who sit in Gaza plotting the genocide of a people; who place their children on rooftops in the hopes they will get blown to bits; who heap praises upon their fellow gang members when they succeed in murdering Jewish school boys and bombing places of activity where Jews congregate\u2014you do not get to claim that you are some Apollonian advocate of human virtue. You are not.<\/p>\n

\u2022 If your activities include grieving over the woefully incompetent performance by Hamas rocketeers and the subsequent millions of Jewish souls who are still alive\u2014whose children were not murdered by their rockets; whose limbs were not torn from them; and whose disembowelment did not come into fruition\u2014you do not get to claim that you stand for justice. You profess to be irreproachable. You are categorically not.<\/p>\n

\u2022 If your idea of a righteous cause entails targeting and intimidating Jewish students on campus, arrogating their history of exile-and-return and fashioning it in your own likeness you do not get to claim that you do so in the name of civil liberty and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

\u2022 You do not get to champion regimes that murder, torture, and persecute their own people, deliberately keep them impoverished, and embezzle billions of dollar from them\u2014and claim you are \u201cpro-Arab.\u201d You are not.<\/p>\n

\u2022 You do not get to champion a system wherein Jews are barred from purchasing land, traveling in certain areas, and living out such an existence merely because they are Jews\u2014and claim that you are promoting equality for all. You do not get to enable that system by pushing a boycott of Jewish owned businesses, shops, and entities\u2014and then claim that you are \u201cagainst apartheid.\u201d That is evil.<\/p>\n

\u2022 You do not get to justify the calculated and deliberate bombings, beatings, and lynchings of Jewish men, women, and children by referring to such heinous occurrences as part of a noble \u201cuprising\u201d of the oppressed\u2014that is racism. It is evil.<\/p>\n

\u2022 You do not get to pretend as though you and Rosa Parks would have been great buddies in the 1960s. Rosa Parks was a real Freedom Fighter. Rosa Parks was a Zionist.<\/p>\n

Coretta Scott King was a Zionist.<\/p>\n

A. Phillip Randolph was a Zionist.<\/p>\n

Bayard Rustin was a Zionist.<\/p>\n

Count Basie was a Zionist.<\/p>\n

Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. was a Zionist.<\/p>\n

Indeed, they and many more men and women signed a letter in 1975 that stated: \u201cWe condemn the anti-Jewish blacklist. We have fought too long and too hard to root out discrimination from our land to sit idly while foreign interests import bigotry to America. Having suffered so greatly from such prejudice, we consider most repugnant the efforts by Arab states to use the economic power of their newly-acquired oil wealth to boycott business firms that deal with Israel or that have Jewish owners, directors, or executives, and to impose anti-Jewish preconditions for investments in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

You see, my people have always been Zionists because my people have always stood for the freedom of the oppressed. So, you most certainly do not get to culturally appropriate my people\u2019s history for your own. You do not have the right to invoke my people\u2019s struggle for your shoddy purposes and you do not get to feign victimhood in our name. You do not have the right to slander my people\u2019s good name and link your cause to that of Dr. King\u2019s. Our two causes are diametrically opposed to each other.<\/p>\n

Your cause is the antithesis of freedom. It has cost hundreds of thousands of lives of both Arabs and Jews. It has separated these peoples, and has fomented animosity between them. It has led to heartache, torment, death and destruction.<\/p>\n

It is of course your prerogative to continue to utilize platitudes for your cause. You are entirely within your rights to chant words like \u201cequality\u201d \u201cjustice\u201d and \u201cfreedom fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can keep using those words for as long as you like. But I do not think you know what they mean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Visit Chloe on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chlo\u00e9 Simone Valdary is young Black non-Jewish woman Zionist who believes that the current worldwide campaign to create unfounded hatred of Jews and Israel has been artificially engineered by Arab oil magnates, and is funded with their fortunes. Chlo\u00e9 established the group \u201cAllies for Israel\u201d at the University of New Orleans where she studies, to … <\/p>\n

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