Judaism Quotes by Judith Butler

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as…

— Judith Butler

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would…

— Judith Butler

When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the…

— Judith Butler

A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people…

— Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in…

— Judith Butler

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a…

— Judith Butler

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel,…

— Judith Butler

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large…

— Judith Butler

The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act…

— Judith Butler

Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who…

— Judith Butler

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays…

— Judith Butler

Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they…

— Judith Butler

It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did…

— Judith Butler

I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always…

— Judith Butler