Published: 21 October 2024
Last updated: 21 October 2024
Dear anti-Zionist,
Yes you, living peacefully and freely here in Australia on stolen land.
You seem to really enjoy the freedoms afforded to you in this colonial country, while Indigenous people experience lower rates of health and education, and higher rates of incarceration and untimely death.
Dear anti-Zionist, your hypocrisy is palpable.
Your infographics and comment sections tell us to “Go back to Europe”. Does that mean you’ll be buying a one-way ticket to your ancestral homeland or is your white guilt adequately offset with an acknowledgement of country in your email signature?
Dear anti-Zionist, you say violence is “resistance”. After the genocide and displacement of European Jews in WWII, should my surviving grandparents have embarked on a barbaric uprising in the name of “freedom fighting”?
Dear anti-Zionist, you talk about the “right to return”. On my next trip back to Poland, should I be asking for the keys to my grandfather’s childhood home in Radom?
Against all odds, after their family trees were cut down by chainsaws of hate, after they’d been displaced and everything had been stripped from them, my grandparents came here as refugees. They sought peace. They rose above their devastation and loss. They rebuilt their communities and families.
Initially it was your silence that hurt. But the silence soon turned to noise.
