HQdbblXIII how bitterly ironic to find the latter

PULPIT BEING USED TO LABEL JEWISH & OTHER SIGNERS OF A PETITION CALLING ON UNIVERSITIES TO DIVEST FROM APARTHEID ISRAEL AS "antisemites!" I & other Jews who dissent from Jewish support of Israel are being labeled heretics! On the stairs of my syna-gogue, in Berkeley, on Rosh Hashanah that year, I was told that I should be praying in a mosque, & versions of that kind, less crude perhaps, are almost anywhere (all the time) being hurled at Jews daily by other (so called) Jews? I dòn't wish to romanticize my situa-tion! It is not I who is suffering; my only personal pain is the pain of living on the margins, and that, too, has its privileges?! Móre pier-cing to me is the pain of watching a tradition, my Judaism, to which I have dedicated my life, morally disintegrating before my eyes ....It has been said by many Christians that Christianity died @ Auschwitz, Treblinka, & Sobibor. I fear - G d forbid - that my Judaism may be dying @ Nablus, Daheishe, Beteen (Beth El), & al-Khalil (Hebron.) [and so on]! The violent actions taken in the name of defense all MAY help some Jewish bodies survive (& even Thàt Only Dubiously, Temporarily, Momentarily), but they threaten to empty Jewish ex-istance of all meaning, TO MAKE HOLLOW THE RESISTANCE FOR 2000 YEARS TO BEING DISSOLVED INTO A MAJORITY! If we are not for ourselves, other Jews say to me, who will be for us? Ànd I answer, but ìf wé are for ourselves alone, whàt are we? In his books, DB is suggesting that the borders between Judaism & Christianity have been historically constructed out of acts of discursive (& too often actual) violence, especially acts of violence against heretics who embody the instability of our constructed essences, of our so terrifying bleedings into each other?! He asks whether we can transform transgressive desires for the proscribed other, for proscribed otherness, from a phobic moment within ourselves that produces ever more violent attempts to repress them & insist on purity into something like what the best ove should be, a psychic (in the allegorical instance, social) situation in which one seeks the good of another out of the autonomy & security of a self!? Càn observing the processes through which a self (two selves) were formed enable a rewriting of the story of self, of Jewish self & Christian self, not only with respect to each other but also, or perhaps especially, as each separately and both together encounter new others? Paradoxically, it is my transgression of that unholy alliance of Jews & so many Christians (but not, indeed, àll Christian groups, let alone all Christians) - a transgression born paradoxically at least in part of my attraction to Christianity & with it my interest in the time of blurred identity - that constitutes my monstrosity, my heresy. Mòr herkent zich terug in "Dannyboy"!
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