Monday, January 8, 7:00 PM EDT
ARE JEWS INDIGENOUS? (Online workshop, Queer Mikveh Project)
Queer Mikveh Project presents a decolonial, antinationalist, Indigenous, Jewish perspective in this online workshop. The right wing has weaponized Indigeneity to justify the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza right now and the Occupation of the last 75 years by saying that the Jewish people are Indigenous to the Holy Land.
Rosa Blumenfeld (@reclaiming_indigeneity) is an Indigenous woman from the Muisca people in Boyaca, Colombia, and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Some questions that Rosa will be addressing: What are nation states for? What is the difference between a historical connection and a current identity? Where do antisemitism and Indigeneity intersect? What are our responsibilities to stand up to this myth as Queer Jews? What about Mizrahi and Palestinian Jews?
ASL interpreted. Please share widely, all respectful participants are welcome regardless of affiliation. This workshop will not be recorded but we will offer it again.