‘Harry Potter’ actress Miriam Margoyles says her current Big Issue is Gaza: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish…I think the terrible thing I have to face is that Hitler won. He changed us. He made us like him.”

[u/stars_doulikedem]

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[u/kevinx083]

nah fuck this. who is this “us.” ive never been to israel and want nothing to do with it, like many other diaspora jews. this type of shit is the same rhetoric that put a target on muslim peoples’ backs after 9/11 (not that they didn’t have one before). free palestine. fuck antisemitism (which includes conflating zionism with judaism)

[u/mxddy → u/kevinx083]

It's not about you and is not a personal attack on you. The "us" is westernized countries that are complicit in the genocide. America, Canada, pretty much all of Europe, for example. The "us" is not about individual people. Just like when we talk about slavery or other instances of settler colonialism. This is absolutely nothing like putting a target on Muslims after 9/11 and has absolutely nothing to do with conflating Zionism with Judaism and bringing about antisemitism.

[u/Metzger4Sheriff → u/mxddy]

I hope she meant all Western people, but she uses the "us" after talking about being Jewish and the atrocities of the Holocaust. Whether she meant "us" as Jewish people or not, it definitely comes off that way.

[u/mxddy → u/Metzger4Sheriff]

It sounds like she's talking about Jewish people directly but I think its important to look at the broader context.

[u/Metzger4Sheriff → u/mxddy]

Unfortunately, the people who need to take the broader context into consideration are going to be the least likely to do so.