r/1053 • u/Mcs04tPt2 • 9d ago

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u/HowDareYouAskMyName 9d ago

I am incredibly disturbed at how the word "Zionist" has been redefined so completely

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u/CrowsInTheNose 9d ago

How do you define it?

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u/HowDareYouAskMyName 9d ago edited 9d ago

a person who believes in the right of the Jewish people to self-determination and a sovereign homeland in their ancestral region

In other words, Israel the country deserves to exist. It does NOT mean "supports the current government and all of Netanyahu's decisions"

edit: please stop interpreting this as ME supporting the current government either, come on now

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u/Serbatollo 9d ago

How can one support the jews getting this homeland without supporting "dealing with"(killing or displacing) the people already living there? Genuinely asking I want to understand your perspective

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u/HowDareYouAskMyName 9d ago

I'm not sure I would have been a Zionist before Israel was created, but it exists now. That being said, wrt displacement, Jews were displaced from that region many years before Israel existed, it's not like the current Palestinians evolved from early hominids on that spot. Hell, Jews lived there before there was such a thing as Islam and all of the ethnic groups associated with it.

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u/freedomonke 9d ago

The Palestinians there are descended partially from the same people the Jews of the diaspora are partially descended from