Philip K. Dick devotes quite a bit of this article discussing Zionism, which he equates with Nazism and comically refers to Zionists who he knows in real life as his “blood-oriented Jewish friends.”
I feel almost teary-eyed by the intellectual and emotional clarity of the PDK passage. Another thank you too to Yasha and Evgenia for their own writing (and artwork). I really appreciate how much you guys are able to introduce the particular which then evokes big themes. I find I always have a lot to chew on after reading this newsletter.
In MLKs defence, Israel, Zionism, even the holocaust were barely discussed pre six-day war so 67, the Israel Lobby also develops a particularly hostile attitude to the civil rights movement (going by Finkelstein's account in Holocaust Industry). Pre ww2 and even slightly after the Zionism-Nazi analogy was also pretty common especially among working class Jews (so most Jews then) and to be a zionist was to be a 'Jewish-fascist' Quite literally the opposite today when anti-Zionists are kapos. Here's a good paper on the subject: sci-hub.se/10.1353/aq.2020.0019
Wow...what a find. Thanks Evgenia and Yasha 👍
I feel almost teary-eyed by the intellectual and emotional clarity of the PDK passage. Another thank you too to Yasha and Evgenia for their own writing (and artwork). I really appreciate how much you guys are able to introduce the particular which then evokes big themes. I find I always have a lot to chew on after reading this newsletter.
In MLKs defence, Israel, Zionism, even the holocaust were barely discussed pre six-day war so 67, the Israel Lobby also develops a particularly hostile attitude to the civil rights movement (going by Finkelstein's account in Holocaust Industry). Pre ww2 and even slightly after the Zionism-Nazi analogy was also pretty common especially among working class Jews (so most Jews then) and to be a zionist was to be a 'Jewish-fascist' Quite literally the opposite today when anti-Zionists are kapos. Here's a good paper on the subject: sci-hub.se/10.1353/aq.2020.0019