As a Jew I wholeheartedly believe that, folks who are pretending nothing is wrong and Palestinians aren’t being murdered every day would have absolutely ignored the Holocaust and let my folks get killed without blinking an eye.
Americans have a lot of heroic fantasies about what they would have done during the Holocaust or chattel slavery, and the answer for a lot of them is absolutely nothing. They would have complained about the people actually doing things for being too disruptive. We Jews did the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and they would have called this terrorism. They would have also complained about MLK and Malcolm X, the former of which took the economies of entire cities hostage. Modern day disruptions don’t hold a candle to historical disruptions.
In a two of more decades, people are going to use excuses like “I didn’t know!” or pretend they were supportive all along, making tear jerking films about the Palestinian plight. We need to not let them do this.
I’m also not asking people to be action heroes or anything, since it takes a very specific kind of person to do that sort of direct resistance. I’m asking for people to actually acknowledge and discuss the fact that there is a genocide going on, and to not pretend things are fine. (This applies to all social justice struggles. Acknowledgement helps normal conversations about it, and de-normalize the ignoring of it like we do for many social problems.)
Also there are many ways to support efforts for justice! The people doing direct action require people to support with costs, food, care supplies, etc. For everyone in a visible position, there are a lot of folks cooking as well.
[Slightly belated] Yom haShoah reblog. Never Again means Never Again for anyone, and I am especially going to be harsh on other Jews on the above points going into the future for as long as I can still speak and constantly remind people of this failure and never let it go or be forgotten.