I am an anti Zionist, I do not support an expulsion of Jews from what is now Israel and I don’t think the people who do have thought it through at all because even beyond the immorality of it it’s just not feasible Imo the only people I can see a reasonable argument for expelling are more recent people who came to join the settlers in the West Bank who often still maintain a home in the US or another country that they live in part of the year
Hamas doing something bad to Palestinians does not change the fact that Israel is genociding them. You are really claiming millions of women and children are all guilty? That’s some interesting logic that funny enough was used against the Jews at one point. You’re a disgusting human being
Zionism is not simply Jews existing. Zionism is the perpetual oppression of Palestinians. It is a Jewish ethnostate to the detriment of Palestinians not just a state with no impact on anyone else. It doesn’t matter what you think Zionism is actions matter. Israel does genocide right now and if you support the Israeli gov you support genocide. Simple. If you had an ounce of empathy in your body you’d see the parallels in what was done to the Jews being done to others
It was over half but who knows now that so many of those people are dead. I also said women and children lmao which is definitely true. Millions of innocent non combatants among children, women, the elderly, and if you want to include the sick and weak then that’s the entire population now
Supporting the Israeli government is wrong in any case yes. Supporting innocent people wanting to live is not wrong. Again what is actually done is what matters. And what is being done? Israel is only existing while killing and oppressing the Palestinians. That it was Zionism means now. Even the original creation was defined as a colonial project by Theodore Herzl
Supporting Israel’s right to exist isn’t wrong. Condemning Israelis being discriminated against whether that’s murder, rape, kidnapping, etc isn’t wrong. Wanting the hostages released isn’t wrong. Condemning Hamas and Palestinian’s participation in the war isn’t wrong. Acting as if Palestinians have zero participation in this, no hate, no violence, no kidnappings, etc is delusional. Acting as if Hamas isn’t also responsible for Palestinian suffering is delusional.
I never said Hamas didn’t play a role. I said Israel is doing a genocide. And you’re supporting it. You’re acting like a non Jew in Germany who would’ve stood by and fallen for all the propaganda about how Jews were ruining Germany. You’re a fucking disgrace to our culture. There’s a reason Holocaust survivors speak out against Israel.
You are the kapo. Falling for antisemitic propaganda that got us killed in Nazi germany. Supporting the very people who emulate Nazi ideology. Boot licking the antisemites who would have killed you regardless. It’s sad, betraying your own people. Supporting the people who want us dead. You’re the disgrace.
Where’s the condemnation of Palestinians taking Israeli’s hostage? Throwing stones at them as they were taken to the tunnels. Having parades to celebrate Israelis deaths. Condemning Hamas for hoarding aid which leads the civilians to starve. Condemning Hamas for indoctrinating their people to hate and attack Israelis. Our Israeli Jewish hostages are starving and you have nothing to say. Instead you support the people starving them. You’re a disgrace to our community.
I mean, we’re a definitionally a diasporic ethnoreligious group with a pretty clear land-based practice. History has not exactly been kind to Jews in diaspora and the desire to return to Eretz Yisrael isn’t a new one. It predates the official birth of “Zionism” as a political belief.
The especially sad thing is that the moderation here will remove anything that mentions decolonization, yet slurs calling people race traitors are perfectly fine? The sad part is that people here support it, yet cannot see that they’re functionally the same as MAGA, the Nazis, or any other supremacist movement. You’re a fascist
Zionism is supporting Israel’s right to be an explicitly “Jewish state,” and Israel being a “Jewish state” in the long term is not possible without the subjugation of Palestinians. It’s not that being a Zionist means someone directly supports suffering of Palestinians, I know many are horrified by it, but they are supporting something that is built on and continued to rely upon it
Not really… Palestinians never accepted Jews. Attacked Jews both verbally and physically. Former terror groups who state in their charter they’ll never agree to peace or live alongside Jews. One fatal mistake you make is assuming Israelis are white oppressors against Palestinians the oppressed brown people. Stop infantilising arabs. They are largely responsible for colonialism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc in the Middle East and North Africa.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of this. To suggest that the dynamic is just Israelis being white oppressors is a misunderstanding of the dynamic is a misunderstanding, but it is also a misunderstanding to assume it was about the Zionist immigrants’ Judaism, because the early Palestinian nationalist movement when rallying against Zionism made overtures to those Jews as fellow Arabs and asked them to join them
Jews in the holy land pre-Zionism certainly didn’t have some kind of perfect relationship with their Muslim and Christian neighbors but it was good enough that at the start of Zionist immigration, the majority opinion among the local Jewish population was that Ashkenazim immigrating should learn Arabic and try to assimilate, and they wished to reconcile their Arab and new Zionist neighbors This was not just Jewish immigration, there’d been Jewish immigration for many years…
I’d add that particularly in Jerusalem, the Sephardic community was very close with its Muslim Arab neighbors, which is part of why even the Sephardic Zionist newspapers in the Ottoman period expressed a wish for Zionism to exist in collaboration and cooperation with their Muslim Arab neighbors under a shared Ottoman rule They had a much less positive relationship with Christian Arabs, who they viewed as agents of European imperialism who sought to spread antisemitism in the Ottoman Empire