{"id":6034,"date":"2024-09-09T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2024-09-10T00:53:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T22:53:41","slug":"at-what-point-permitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2024-09-09\/at-what-point-permitted\/","title":{"rendered":"At what point are we permitted to&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\"><em><strong>Five questions, plus a sixth:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. At what point does it become irresponsible <em>not<\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathancook.substack.com\/p\/oscars-speech-smear-campaign-shows\" rel=\"\">compare<\/a> Israel\u2019s slaughter of the Palestinian people with the genocide westerners know best: the Nazi Holocaust?<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-09-at-14.47.05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-09-at-14.47.05.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-09-at-14.47.05-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>\n<p>2. At what point does shielding Israel from the revulsion its actions naturally inspire not turn into complicity?<\/p>\n<p>3. At what point should western publics be offered proper historical context to make sense of Israel&#8217;s genocide: one that lets them understand how the Zionist movement was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/2018-07-13\/how-israel-helped-to-revive-europes-ugly-ethnic-nationalisms\/\" rel=\"\">ideologically shaped<\/a> by its exposure to ugly, century-old European ethnic nationalisms that culminated in Nazism, and how the Zionists chose to <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathancook.substack.com\/p\/jonathan-freedland-rewrites-history\" rel=\"\">mirror<\/a> those supremacist ideologies rather than reject them?<\/p>\n<p>4. At what point are we allowed to say that Israel cannot continue to exist in its current form, as a racist, <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathancook.substack.com\/p\/with-hamas-gone-gaza-still-wouldnt\" rel=\"\">settler-colonial state<\/a> masquerading as the \u201cstate of the Jews\u201d, and that it must be remade, as apartheid South Africa once was?<\/p>\n<p>5. And at what point are we permitted to prize Palestinian life over the &#8220;sensitivities&#8221; of Zionist supremacists?<\/p>\n<p>6. Is the answer: Never?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At what point are we permitted to prize Palestinian life over the &#8220;sensitivities&#8221; of Zionist supremacists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-6034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-israel-lobby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}