I would say that I’m a feminist theorist before I’m a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. Judith Butler Read Quote
Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. Judith Butler Read Quote
When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews ‘anti-Semitic,’ they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel. Judith Butler Read Quote
Honestly, what can really be said about ‘the Jewish people’ as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments? Judith Butler Read Quote
The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches. Judith Butler Read Quote
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me. Judith Butler Read Quote
I don’t think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war. Judith Butler Read Quote
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. Judith Butler Read Quote
Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor. Judith Butler Read Quote
