in reply to HappyFrog

It's worth pointing out that the reasons they support Israel as an ethnostate are largely two-fold

  1. They believe that a restored Jewish state in Palestine is a sign of Jesus's return, meaning they'll get raptured soon.
  2. They want Jewish people out of "their" country.

Zionism has a long history of antisemitism despite the apparent contradiction.

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in reply to hungryphrog

Zionism is a political movement whichs objects have changed over the course of its 150 years existence. Most early Zionists, even the vile ones who embraced ethnic cleansing as crucial to obtain "their" state had their goals fulfilled in 1948. Ever since then the movement kept radicalizing to keep justifying more ethnic cleansing, land stealing, genocide and assorted crimes that come with being an expansionist imperial ideology.
in reply to Saleh

Most early Zionists, even the vile ones who embraced ethnic cleansing as crucial to obtain "their" state had their goals fulfilled in 1948.


Yeah... no. Ben Gurion is on record saying "we should accept partition as an intermediary step towards Jewish conquest of all of Palestine" multiple times. Zionism has always been like this; Zionists have simply deluded themselves and everyone else into thinking early Zionism wasn't exactly the same stuff as modern Zionism, just with better PR and more democracy for the master race. The reason Zionists didn't conquer and ethnically cleanse all of Palestine is Arab intervention to stop exactly that from happening.

in reply to Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]

The first 20 seconds of this documentary are a good example of "what makes you cheer".

Yaay! War! Guns! Tanks!


youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0y…

in reply to unexposedhazard

I only came around to see it a few days ago. How do these people not realize the insanity of it all? Going to an university event and fake crying on stage how you would feel threatened on campus by a motion for the university to stop investing in weapons manufacturers because your handlers told you to do it. Events where you kept being told to go to the army is the greatest way you could serve your people...

No matter what is going on in the world. My security in a place simply does not depend on that place having investments in my favorite weapons manufacturers. If that was the case for any human anywhere in the world that human would never be able to leave his home. Which in the case of American Zionists would be a good thing. Stay at home in Michigan, Ohio or wherever you life and don't go stealing other peoples homes halfway across the globe. Or go wherever you want in the world as long as you buy or rent from the legitimate owner.

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in reply to kittenzrulz123

In my final years on the right, I've read a Hungarian blog post titled "Unpopular opinion: the answer to the Jewish question is Israel", and it not only begun with the worst "I'm not antisemitic, some great people were Jewish, but" (except multiple paragraphs), but also talked about how Jewish people are unfit to "live alongside with non-Jews", and that the solution to all of it to let Israel have all of Palestine and maybe some other smaller Arabic countries as their population can just live in other countries like Saudi-Arabia (the same blog also regularly whined about the Treaty of Trianon, so...), and then the "peaceful deportations" can begin.
in reply to kittenzrulz123

Of course antisemitism doesn't always have to be antizionist. But I'd maintain that antizionism is always antisemitic. When other countries commit horrific and disgusting acts, they are criticised, but their existence is in no way or form questioned like the existence of Israel is. So no, it's not "antizionism = antisemitism", but it is "antizionism ∈ antisemitism"
in reply to polysexualstick

Thats because for the most part counties that committed horrific acts (ex: Germany, UK, China, France, etc) are well established countries or (ex: US, Canada, Australia) have had colonial rule for so long they've become established. Meanwhile if you compare Israel to other settler colonial counties like Rhodesia you'll find that they collapsed the second apartheid rule ended.
in reply to polysexualstick

What world are you living in? People regularly wish for the collapse of USA due to it's unhinged level of capitalism ruining workers' lives. People regularly wish for the fall of Russia because of Putin's dictatorship and invasion of Ukraine. People regularly wish for the fall of China, either because they believe that Chinese gov't commits atrocities or simply because they are simps of capitalism and wish for anything even remotely communist to fail.
in reply to Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]

I've been neutral on the entire thing from the beginning. BOTH sides have had a long, well-known, widely acknowledged policy of total genocide of the other side, down to every last man, woman, and child. If the Muslims thought they could get away with it, they'd level Israel and kill every single citizen in a weekend.

On the other hand, the Israelis feel exactly the same way toward the Muslims, and are proving it with their enthusiastic, unrelenting genocide of the Palestinians.

BOTH sides are disgusting and reprehensible, and I don't support either. I'm not anti-semitic, I'm anti-genocide.

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WillStealYourUsername

The comment you agreed with also stated all muslims are equally guilty of genocide, not just hamas. As others have stated things are complicated and comparing the actions of a colonial occupation to the actions of desperate people being actively killed off and that have no allies but extremists is dishonest or ignorant.
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small44

You don't seems to comprehend basic concepts like deductive inference. I read your comments in the moodlog. You say that you are neutral but you can't be beutral towards genocide and colonization. This is like someone living during nat turner saying both slave owners and slaves did terrible stuffs to each other so everybody should be neutral about slavery.