Lester Golden
2 min readJan 22, 2025

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Just another German who thinks he, and not Jews, decide Jewish identity. After nearly 4000 years of Jewish history, do you really expect any of us to listen to goyim like you.

I'm a proud Zionist, prosciutto and lobster-loving Jewish atheist whose identity is both ancient and modern, born into a tribe of tribes and a modern nation in the age of empire demolition that created over 100 new nation states. My grandfather was present at the demolition/creation in the Jewish Legion in Palestine in 1918. The wave of pogroms he lived through in Kishinev in 1903 and Ukraine and rescued my grandmother from in December 1920 are proof enough that Jews need a state and have as much of a right to sovereignty as any other nation. What my grandparents lived through is proof enough that Jews need a state more than Catalans, Kurds, Basques, Corsicans, Sardi, Siciliani, Sami, Galegos, etc.

But the only one you think has no right to exist is Israel. https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/youre-anti-semitic-if-you-banish-israel-from-the-nation-sovereignty-clubs-983f9e28ccd5

The IHRA definition of anti-semitism calls this double standards.

Jewish sovereignty and statehood is non-negotiable and forever. Get over it.

Here's your fate, described in this aphorism that explains every Jewish holiday:

"They tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat."

You'll be added to a list that includes pharaohnic Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Seleucid Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Omayyads, Abbasids,Fatimids, Crusaders, Mamelukes, Ottomans, the British empire, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/anti-zionist-your-societys-fate-is-4a519752c67a

To be added: Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah, the Ayatollahs' Iran, Putin's Russia.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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