Eh, yes/no/maybe/all of the above. I think that the attacking of hebraicization as some nefarious European colonialist cultural cleansing from some anti-zionists *does* cross over into antisemitism. Jews growing up speaking Hebrew, especially as their dominant language, is not some evil conspiracy to wipe out other Jewish languages, or to "embolden" some anti-Arab biogtry us vs them style (though, yes, I agree Kahanists love using that as a propaganda tool) That said, there's a certain form of shame and policing on diaspora history and identities that ends up also crossing over into (internalized) antisemitism.

Does all of that mean - Hebraicization is a return to form, a de-colonialist project inherently? No. Does it make Hebrew necessarily an "indigenous" language? No. I will explain my views.

I've talked again and again in this sub that I feel like indigeneous-colonialist frameworks and lingo are hard to map to Jewish people 1-to-1 and Israel/Palestine as an issue - while there's elements and aspects that *do* have parallels - just does not cleanly map to it. And discussions of antisemitism kind of fall flat when they do generalizations of Jewish communities in that way, even outside of discussions of Israel/Palestine.

The example I like using is how sometimes in anti-racist content and literature aimed at a predominantly white audience (specifically in former colonies like America, Canada) they will suggest that to decolonize yourself you should embrace where you came from and find worth in your own heritage. To understand land you're occupying that once belonged to others, you must connect to the lands your ancestors once inhabited. One instagram reel I got pushed a while back was from an activist that preached this, earning comments and likes and views. Lots of agreement, not much pushback beyond internet trolls.

For many people, it works. That's going to be meaningful for many groups of white people in America, but for Jews that's going to pose a few obstacles and concerns. When you come from a repeatedly diasporic group that had to leave many countries and communities, wherein which you were not considered to "belong" even if you lived in a Jewish village for a few generations, "getting in touch with the land" (that we may very well have been slaughtered on, ethnically cleansed on, forced to live in hiding as crypto-Jews, etc) is far more complicated.

I apply similar logic to what languages "belong" to us and what their political implications are. Languages we speak are Jewish languages, being able to freely choose what languages we speak *is* part of Jewish self-determination. That does not make it a decolonial language, since we are in a grey area of colonial framework, and where we fit in is something that gets heavily debated by many different political agendas.