Deep dive and must-read. Challenges the idea of Jewish violence as product of Jewish trauma, traces the lineage of Jewish trauma discourse, and rejects the idea of Zionism as “trauma response today."
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Shabana Mir
"Zionism was not simply adopted by a terrified rank-and-file American Jewry, nor is it a trauma response today; it was, and is, a political project—with particularly violent aims."
Read Jon Danforth-Appell's new essay, "Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?" jewishcurrents.org/does-the-jew...
