As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps… What became really hard for me is that if one wanted to criticise Israeli state violence…one is told that one is either self-hating as a Jew or engaging [in] anti-Semitism… In my view, any effort to retain the idea of emancipation when you don’t have a state that extends equal rights of citizenship to Jews and non-Jews alike is, for me, bankrupt. It’s bankrupt.
Judith Butler