There are few people I despise more than those who conflate being anti-zionist with being anti-semitic.
Anyone who does this is a write off to me. Worthy of no respect; moral or intellectual. I only hope they are being paid well to be both evil and intellectually dishonest.
“We are going to emigrate to Palestine until we are the majority, then use force to steal Palestinian homes” is not defensible in any terms except “the strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must.”
And no one who is Jewish should want to live in such a world.
Some Jews are Zionists, but not all Jews are Zionists. This is fairly basic.
One can be against the Zionist project and not be against the Jewish people. It is evil of Israel to wrap themselves in Jewishness, and push their crimes onto people who had nothing to do with them.
Some Jews are Zionists, but not all Jews are Zionists. This is fairly basic. One can be against the Zionist project and not be against the Jewish people. It is evil of Israel to wrap themselves in Jewishness, and push their crimes onto people who had nothing to do with them.
In the long run, the crimes of Israel, because Israelis wrap them in “Jewishness” do more damage to Jews than perhaps even to Palestinians.
Being Jewish and being Israeli and being Zionist are three different things.
Conflating them is wrong.
There isn’t much of a real opposition left in Israel; of people who genuinely oppose stealing other people’s homes. But they exist. That’s why being Israeli /= being Zionist.
Being Zionist means believing you have a right to take other people’s homes. Being Israeli is citizenship
This is similar to the fact that both Russia and the US have done a lot of evil shit, but that doesn’t mean all Russians or Americans are evil, just the ones who support doing evil shit.
Likewise, there were Germans who opposed the Nazis. They were not evil. They were good.
You don’t get to choose if you’re German, or Jewish, or American, or Russian. You do get to choose whether you’re a Nazi, a Zionist, a Neocon or a Stalinist.
You get to decide whether you support doing evil or oppose it.
Apartheid is evil. Are you for it, or against it?
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