
Conflict Is Not Abuse

The Jewish Bully, like any bully, cannot be wrong, therefore cannot negotiate, and so defends their lack of self with a claim to moral superiority.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
the anxiety from the action.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
No. I am saying that there are a lot of religious forces that use violence, and the singling out of Hamas as an excuse for the mass killings of Palestinians is a tactic.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
the concept that people do things for reasons, and that these reasons may be rooted in early experiences which are worth identifying so that we don’t blame the present for the past.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
And this, in turn, raised the question of whether or not we want people to be treated or to be punished.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
Then, via a spectacle of protection-through-dominance, they used the tactics of myth-building and accrued might, rooted in themes of European racial Supremacy.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
Being treated as a non-person may be the most crushing kind of oppression that there is. —JOHN BOSWELL (1986 lecture at the University of Wisconsin)
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
actual Trauma and the fetishization of Trauma. It is the identification of traumatized people with bullies, who cannot be opposed or acknowledge mistakes. The Jews have an opportunity to deprogram themselves, as some of us have chosen to do when faced with the Palestinian challenge. We change our self-perception, our myths about ourselves. We chall
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Professor Dorit Naaman, an Israeli living in Canada who teaches at Queens University, published a personal essay titled “I am a Palestinian Jew Or At Least I Will Be” that she posted on Facebook. She wrote: Certainly in my lifetime this place will be called Palestine and I will be a citizen of Jewish-Israeli heritage. By saying I am a Palestinian J
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