a rewrite of the well known song....
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I’m dreaming of a diverse Christmas
Just like the ones Jesus would love to know
Where the people are blissing and children are listening
To hear the adults lovingly glow.
I’m dreaming of a diverse Christmas
With every Christmas card and verse
May your days be equitable and just
And may all your Christmases be diverse
I’m dreaming of a diverse Christmas
Just like the ones Jesus would love to see
Where all the peoples of Earth listen
To hear each others songs happily.
I'm dreaming of a diverse Christmas
just like the ones Jesus would love to see
all the LBGTQA people loved by
Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Pagan and secular communities….
I'm dreaming of a diverse Christmas.
Billions of people are dreaming of a diverse Christmas, Hannukah, Laylat al-Raghaib, Yuletide, Bodhi Day, Kwanzaa
In spite of childhood abuse and trauma...
In spite of the trauma and abuse I was subjected to by Catholic clerics and lay people throughout my childhood, I have, through long reflection, decades wading through the floods of distress that trauma imposed upon me as a child and as an adult with cPTSD, learned that for most people Faith is about their local community...
I have learned to accept ordinary people's faith, the faith into which they were born, as separate in large degree from the Political Power of Institutional Religious Wealth. How people behave towards one another matters.
Those ordinary people who gather in Churches, Synagogues, Temples do so largely because they are a living community, a gathering of people whose lives are intertwined and connected in mutual aid and living relationships.
This was and remains to this day, the great gift of Palestine, a gift that Europe has long desecrated. Irish people understand this great gift and for the most part give it too.
Jews, Christians, Muslims and others lived side by side, their days numbered by their different cycles of religious celebration, marked by marriages, shared economies, shared cultural arts, shared lands, shared water.
Zionism
The phrase "Jewish self-hatred" (Jüdischer Selbsthass) was coined and popularized by German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing in his 1930 book Der Jüdische Selbsthass, building on earlier ideas from journalist Anton Kuh, to describe intellectual Jews criticizing their own people, though the concept's origins trace to early 20th-century discussions about Jewish identity, inferiority complexes, and societal persecution.
Zionism, which then took up that horrific take on the Jewish peoples struggle against those who deployed the bigotry of anti-semitism as a political, social and culturally curated weaponisation of non-Jewish peoples, the Christian and secular European Rullng Oligarchies, is inherently a hatred of being Jewish in that it is a hatred of the fact of historical European Anti-Semitism ("I hate that I am Jewish and oppressed because of my Jewishness") and the lived experience of Jewish communities, generation after generation, the exhaustion of relentless bigotry, wishing to then hide behind an Iron Wall.
For Zionism the Iron Wall was to be built on other people's lands, in Palestine.
Jabotinksy in 1923 wrote an essay titled 'The Iron Wall', in which he made it very clear that the Zionists needed to violently expell those peoples, because they would not willingly leave their lands, their farms, villages, towns and cities to make way for the Zionists. He also stated that Zionists would never be able to make any form of agreement that integrated the Arab Palestinians into the Zionist State.
Zionists rejected Mutual Aid
Zionists were not seeking solidarity amongst the peoples of Europe to challenge the mutual oppressions of Racism, Misogyny, Anti-Semitism, Sectarianism and Xenophobia and and thus dismantle the European Hierarchy of Wealth-as-Power which oppresses us all.
And in that, Zionism left itself open to becoming the Weapon of the European Wealth-as-Power Cult, and as such has no validity in Judaism or any other Faith.
And it is not for Jewish peoples alone to confront all of this, it is for all of us to do so, collectively, energetically until the oppression of our respective ruling class wealth-as-power cults are dismantled and their oppression is no more.
Free Palestine! Free Europe!
Free the people from the oppressions of Wealth-as-Power.
Saorise don Fhalestín!
I would urge all European citizens to confront the fact of anti-Semitism as a European Problem to be confronted and challenged and dismantled by Europeans, so that being Jewish or any other Faith has no bearing on how a person is related to and treated, institutionally, culturally or personally..
A separate homeland for every group assaulted by bigotry is not a solution.
We share the air, the water, the sunlight, the moonlight and gut bacteria...
The solution to curated systemic bigotry is to hold these who curate it accountable and to ensure all our education systems educate our youth in all of this.
I'm dreaming of a diverse Christmas.
Billions of people are dreaming of a diverse Christmas, Hannukah, Laylat al-Raghaib, Yuletide..
Corneilius
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