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  1. It’s no secret that Butler, who is Jewish, is critical of Israel and Zionism; they are involved with Jewish Voice for Peace and have written extensively on the topic, including in their book...

  2. Aug 27, 2012 · It makes me into someone who wishes to affirm a Judaism that is not identified with state violence, and that is identified with a broad-based struggle for social justice.

  3. Mar 13, 2024 · In her recent remarks concerning the Hamas attack on Simchat Torah 2023, Butler seemed to frame the horrific acts of violence as potentially justifiable acts of decolonial resistance. Worse...

  4. In her reading of Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence,” Judith Butler points out that Benjamin makes use of an alternative Jewish tradition of understanding the commandment “thou shall not kill.” The commandment is here opposed to guilt and hence can become the basis for a critique of legal violence.

  5. Butlers explication of mythical violence partially explains Benjamin’s perplexing opposition above between ‘the guilt of a more natural life’, over which mythical violence exerts its bloody power, and ‘the living’, on behalf of which divine violence bloodlessly intercedes.

    • Karyn Ball
    • 2016
  6. Oct 28, 2014 · Critical theorist and activist Judith Butler talks about Israel, Palestine, Gaza, BDS, US education, anti-Semitism and inequality.

  7. Apr 29, 2024 · Butler proposed a conversation “about whether this current state is actually protecting the Jews from harm or exposing the Jews to harm.” The woman refused. Butler persisted—a coffee perhaps ...