Shoq on Nostr: burned out of their homes. Entire shtetls lived in fear, waiting for the next attack. ...

burned out of their homes.
Entire shtetls lived in fear, waiting for the next attack.

⏵ Then came the Holocaust. Six million murdered not by mobs, but by modern bureaucracy. Factories of death. Families gassed, cremated, erased.

So yes, when people say “Zionism is about safety,” it’s not theoretical. It’s not paranoid.
It’s the product of millennia of trauma.

You can oppose the occupation of Gaza.
You can demand justice for Palestinians (as I do). But denying why Jews sought a homeland is …