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Anti-Zionist Psychosis

JL;DR SUMMARY Dr. Rae's essay explores the concept of 'anti-Zionist psychosis,' critiquing the use of psychological terminology by anti-Zionists to undermine Zionist ideology. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismPalestinian Israeli ConflictPalestinian StatehoodAnti ZionismPsychologyPolitical DiscoursePsychosisRhetoricFreudian Analysis

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Washington, Washington DC, United States
"This was the response of Dr. Lara Sheehi who, after being fired from the George Washington Universitys department of psychology for discrimination against Israeli and Jewish students, now teaches in Qatar."
Israel
"For example, I could say, Clearly, Gazans and their supporters are suffering from castration complexes a psychoanalytic term indicating that males subconsciously fear removal of their genitals because they have an Oedipal complex (the subconscious desire to kill their fathers and marry their mothers)."
United States
"The settler colonial repetition-compulsion is organized around a constellation of actions that aim to turn the settler into native while invading the psychic province of being. One such action is political intimidation and repression of academics and activists in the settler colony of the U.S. and across Europe in what, since October 7, 2023, has been called a new McCarthyism."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Long story short: Attack the Jews and lose, ad nauseam. That, my friends, is psychotic repetition-compulsion. Attack the Jews and lose, ad nauseam. That is psychotic repetition-compulsion."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
" Hiding behind schools, hospitals, and mosques is psychotic. Believing that you will live forever in paradise for murdering Israeli children is psychotic."
Qatar
"This was the response of Dr. Lara Sheehi who, after being fired from the George Washington Universitys department of psychology for discrimination against Israeli and Jewish students, now teaches in Qatar."

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