I love how this term Zionist gets thrown around. Zionism is the belief that Jews should have their own homeland. Basically all Jews support this idea so we are all in effect Zionists. The Zionists back in the day were willing to split the mandate of Palestine with the Arabs that had already been given the majority of that mandate to the Hashemite Kingdom. The term Zionist is used on this message board to denote “Jew” and it’s pure bs propaganda that has been used effectively by Islamic terrorist groups and useful idiots that propagate it. What you’re really saying by saying Zionist is that Jews don’t deserve our own country and you’d prefer we act as second class dhimmis like we had for millennia, or suffer pogroms and just accept our fate, no thanks.
And no there should never ever be justification for violence against a group because of the action of their co religionists or fellow race anyhow. By this standard after October 7 people would be justified to shoot up a mosque in retaliation?. And I’m sure that community would be outraged even if the mosque was empty and they would be right to be outraged as they didn’t participate in that terrorist attack. China also currently imprisons Muslims Uighurs in concentration camps but I don’t see anybody attacking Chinese people on the streets. The fact that this message board allows this blatant anti semitism to persist is disappointing to say the least but completely unsurprising. It’s always Jews Jews Jews, sorry I meant “Zionist” Jewish hate is not a novel thing so you’re not being original. Find something else to complain about or get laid maybe? Isn’t that what this board really is meant to be for
The mouldy cult script. Your fiction just doesn’t match the well documented facts.
From the Princeton Prof of History, Zachary Foster in response to Mike Huckabee
You wrote, "Zionism is the belief that Israel has a right to exist in safety and security." The problem with your definition of Zionism is that is supposed Zionism was and is an abstract idea, rather than a movement with leaders, followers, institutions, policies and militias that established the State of Israel in 1948.
That Zionist movement set out to build a Jewish state with a Jewish majority working at Jewish-only cooperatives living in Jewish-only colonies owned by Jewish-only land authorities operating Jewish-only schools in a country of 95% Palestinian Arabs.
What could possibly go wrong? let's dive in. Zionism was the ideology of the movement that said, let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 97%+ non-Jewis
That's why, when Zionists bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't jewish.
https://palestinenexus.com/articles/origins-ethnic-cleansing-1920-1947
That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" -- no Arabs allowed, and even expelled Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish companies and business. Jews only!
https://jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2007.36.2.25
That's why, in 1948, Zionists militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.
https://archive.org/details/birthofpalestini00morr
That's why, from 1949-1956, Israeli forces shot & killed b/w 2,700-5,000 overwhelmingly unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes after the war. Because they were the wrong religion/ethnicity (
https://archive.org/details/israelsborderwar0000morr p.416).
That's why Israel expelled another ~30-40,000 Palestinians from Israel from 1949-1959.
https://palestinenexus.com/articles/israel-ethnic-cleansing-1949-1965
That's why Israel expelled another ~250,000 Palestinians from the West Bank & 40,000 Palestinians from Gaza from June 1967 - December 1967, when it occupied those territories in 1967.
https://jstor.org/stable/pdf/41857956.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3Acea121fad09a556b35ca5ad773efed0b&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 That's why Israel continued to expel Palestinians from the occupied territories from 1968-1993, many hundreds of thousands of them.
https://palestinenexus.com/articles/israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-palestinians-1968-1993
This is why Israel has become such a pariah state over the years, because it's insistence on Jewish rule in a country with so many Palestinians. It's why Zionism has led Israel to become an apartheid state, according to every relevant human rights organization (
@ICAHD
in 2010,
@UNESCWA
in 2017,
@YeshDin
in 2020,
@AdalahCenter
in 2020,
@btselem
in 2021,
@hrw
in 2021,
@fidh_en
in 2021,
@alhaq_org
in 2022,
@Addameer
in 2022,
@AlMezanCenter
in 2022,
@cacalqudsuni
in 2022,
@AdvocacyJlac
in 2022,
@miftahpal
in 2022,
@ICJ_org
in 2022,
@DAWNmenaorg
in 2022,
@amnesty
in 2022), since it cannot grant the ~5-6 million occupied Palestinians Israeli citizenship.
Israel chose apartheid and Jewish supremacy over democracy. Zionism also explains why Israel is now committing genocide (according to
@amnesty
,
@hrw
,
@btselem
,
@MSF
, IAGS,
@alhaq_org
,
@UNHumanRights
,
@UN_HRC
,
@pchrgaza
,
@AlMezanCenter
,
@WarOnWant
,
@PHRIsrael
,
@fidh_en
, PHROC,
@LemkinInstitute
,
@theCCR
,
@ECCHRBerlin
,
@unitedforrights
@JURDIasso
,
@TheElders
,
@Oxfam
), because, what a Zionist dream it would have been had Palestine been a land without any people on it! the ideology incentivized genocide. Mike, I offer courses on the history of Zionism, anti-Zionism, Palestine, the Palestinians & Israel here. Educate yourself:
thejewishindependent.com.au
www.bbc.com
