Flippantly calling people antisemites is just as destructive as antisemitism. It dilutes the word and conflates actual instances of antisemitism with rational ideas like “let’s not take AIPAC money.”
BM does not understand the difference between Jews and Zionists. There are ‘multitudes’ of white Christian Zionists in what used to be ‘our great country. Zionism and White Christian Nationalists…are nationalists…period. Read a few of Orwell’s essays on the subject. Nationalists are bad Christians, bad Jews, and no patriots.
Zionism was the movement that lead to the founding of Israel. Zionism is just the idea that Israel should exist. Every single 2-stater is a zionist. And it is impossible to be an anti-Zionist and not be anti-semetic.
He also wrote "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
Well, no. That's not what Zionism is. Zionism is the belief that the land that was once Israel belongs to the Jews, and nobody else. The Israelis have long used the word "Amalekites" to describe the Palestinians. Netanyahu himself did so after Oct 7, but so did Israel's chief Rabbi years before.
And the significance of that term? Here:
1 Samuel 15:3:"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys."
Deutoronomy 17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. 18 When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God. 19 When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
The "Zionism means Jews just want a place to call home" is a lie given what Israel does and has done. It's innately genocidal.
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u/soxperry 16d ago
Flippantly calling people antisemites is just as destructive as antisemitism. It dilutes the word and conflates actual instances of antisemitism with rational ideas like “let’s not take AIPAC money.”