On Columbus Day
An excerpt from my travel notebook, written after a tour guide ranted about the natives (Jews) having to buy their own land from settlers (Turks and Arabs) when it’s supposed to be the white people ripping off the brown:
Well now I feel fucking guilty about the American Indians. I guess I always should. But I don’t feel directly responsible because I don’t identify with the early European Americans. When I rewind myself to the 1830s, I’m not voting for Andrew Jackson - I’m in a shtetl in Hungary. I don’t have to feel responsible for genociding the Indians because I am a minority outsider too.
But in Israel, I am the majority. If I want to use that logic at home, I have to follow its natural extension here. Am I responsible for the Indians because I am now an American, or am I responsible for the Palestinians because I was then a Jew?
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