Aadita Chaudhury

“The Stanford College Republicans are an antisemitic hate group who should be treated as such...they only survive by gaslighting us.” - @elivalley

“@benshapiro has used the position of Orthodox Judaism to cozy up to white supremacy...and erased non-Orthodox Jews. But guess what we are Jews and we are not bad Jews.” -@elivalley

Anti-Zionist Jewish pride has been likened to Nazism and described as self-hatred, whereas Jewish allies to contemporary white supremacy has been held up as the height of Jewishness. - @elivalley

Early Zionists portrayed diaspora Jews using many anti-Semitic tropes that are sometimes indistinguishable from Nazi imagery of the Jew vs the Aryan. -@elivalley

.@elivalley on Zionism - “You want to talk about self-hatred? This is government sponsored self-hatred geared to sustain a particular nationalist imaginary.”

.@elivalley talks about the alliances between the American alt right and Israeli officials’ reluctance in even acknowledging growing anti-Semitism in the US or pointing fingers elsewhere. Another instance of gaslighting as Valley has alluded to.

.@elivalley contends that there are multiple forms of Zionism including cultural and political and their definitions have changed along with positionality and political expediency.

.@elivalley identifies as a non-Zionist in that he doesn’t believe that Jews can only be complete and secure as a people within the state of Israel.

.@elivalley says that the definition of antisemitism in mainstream America is changing in a way that can hurt Jews, especially progressive, non-Zionist Jews, in that people are already defining anti-Christian Zionism as antisemitism. (“Like some people in the NYT op-Ed pages.”)

.@elivalley - Judaism has historically been always foundationally anti-empire but as it exists now, Israel is a tool of US empire