Protestors disrupted fashion designer Donna Karan's IOF fundraiser
in New York City
I didn’t finish my yoga class today because I’m still recovering from COVID. I hope this inspires you to listen to your body when it tells you I don’t want to do this. Today I’m sharing my feelings about protestors disrupting an IOF fundraiser in Manhattan. Onto the news…
News that made me tell you why I think I'm very rich
Protesters in New York City disrupted a fundraiser for the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) hosted by Donna Karan, the fashion designer and zionist. IOF is the right name for what they call the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) because being a colonizer is not defense. I’m not surprised that someone who started a fashion brand would financially support colonizers because the mainstream fashion industry depends on colonialism. Why would you destroy something that you depend on to amass your riches? That would be like me trying to burn down my friend’s weed plants. No, I do not make money from my friend’s weed plants, but she’s gifted me a jar of weed from these plants. I consider having friends who give me free weed amassing riches. Given that definition of wealth, I’m very rich!
I mentioned the fashion industry depending on colonialism because I have been reading The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion and every page I turn made me want to burn all my clothes. Which wouldn’t be helpful at all. Destroying capitalism is the only solution. So if you ever needed something to encourage you more to burn down capitalism or never wear clothes again, that’s the book. Now, let’s get back to Donna Karan being a genocide supporter.
What I’m really confused about is why does anyone, especially a rich American, need to raise funds for the IOF when the IOF already gets our tax dollars. Maybe Donna Karan is one of those wealthy people who avoids taxes. Now she feels guilty about not giving more of her money to the imperialist cause. So she planned a party for all her rich friends who also don’t pay taxes to give that money directly to an imperialist cause they support.
A rich person feeling guilty about not paying taxes to support imperialism and genocide is a theory that I can debunk myself. I was just thinking to myself why would anyone raise money to support genocide. So I thought maybe it’s because Donna feels guilty about evading taxes that would pay for genocide. Then I remembered, wealthy people don’t have the ability to feel guilty about hoarding money because hoarding money is their whole personality. Then I also remembered I previously said a rich person would support genocide because their wealth depends on genocide and imperialism in this very post.
Rich people and genocide supporters confuse me so much that I’ll be writing why they do things that they do. Then the next minute I will ask myself why would anyone do that? It’s like my body just refuses to understand and believe that people can be so cruel because I love people so much. Seriously sometimes when I’m riding in the subway I look around and think to myself. Wow, humans are so beautiful!
Since rich people don’t feel guilty about doing terrible things because terrible things are what generates their wealth, I’m very happy that the protestors were outside the fundraiser making everyone raising funds for settler colonialism feel very uncomfortable. If you insist on wearing a cute outfit to raise money for genocide, you should not have fun at said party. No one deserves to have fun in a cute outfit when they are raising funds for genocide.
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I have a hunch that Karan's fundraiser isn't so much about actually raising funds as it is about framing Israel as a victim in need of defense. As a Jew, I have a sense of this from our western-Jew cultural heritage: Israel wasn't really created for Jews. I mean, it was, but UK/US imperialism would not have done it just for us. Those powers used the horrors of the Holocaust as an excuse to create a permanent outpost in the Middle East. And I think think we (western Jews) bought into the propaganda used to do that. Spin forward 80 years, and here we are, where many of us know what a sham that was, but many still buy into it, and are happy to let our government keep using us as an excuse for Israel and its continuing occupation and genocide (hence the continued insistence on pushing the narrative that anti-zionism and antisemitism are synonymous). Throwing a fundraiser for genocide is probably a very effective part of maintaining the myth. I don't know if Karan is Jewish or not, but it doesn't really matter. Modern Zionism isn't actually about Judaism; it's about imperialism and colonial occupation (and genocide). Thus the scam: Poor wittle Israel needs our help protecting itself from those big bad meanies!