#antizionism is antisemitism

[straynoahide]

why is the main road in Gaza named after Saladin, a crusader-era conqueror/mass murderer who professed a religion from the hejaz in arabia and himself not born in the levant but in mesopotamia?

is colonial imperialism, theocracy and slavery good when arabs do it? are jews best left to ottoman dhimmitude forever, perhaps?

the current iteration of the palestinian national aspiration in gaza -as all of them since the british mandate- is a genocidal, holocaust continuist arab nationalist and islamist project. and fatah is little better, the society is nazified and children are groomed into armed death cults, instigated by people who sit outside of palestine.

hamas is a terrorist organization that explicitly states it wants a jewish-free society, which also happens to treat women as domestic slaves, lynch queers, and suppress free-thought when it comes to freedom of religion. they get the means to do so from western progressives and international institutions, like UNRWA.

israel is the sole decolonial state of the jewish people, who are indigenous to eretz yisrael, no matter what part of the diaspora their ancestors lived in, and no matter how long ago, although the yishuv was continuous.

antizionism is antisemitism, and has always been. political antizionism is an anti-western force. fuck the Islamic Republic of Iran and its "bin laden uwu" brainwash. fuck fifthcolumnists. there is no future with genocidal antisemitic ideology in the middle east.

“elon musk did the nazi salute, remember to check on your jewish friends uwu” you all celebrated when jihadi terrorists live-streamed the torture, kidnapping and murdering of israelis on 10/7/2023 but ok

[mossadspypigeon]

wait a dang minute. i thought zionist jews weren’t real jews and therefore didnt experience antisemitism??

what’s that?? a slur for JEWS?

who’s this…david duke of the kkk??? hater of THE JEWS who uses ZIO AND ZIONIST to talk about…jews…supporting palestine?

why’s he saying goyim tho if zionists aren’t jews 🤔

wonder why they’re all doing nazi salutes at israel?? could it be because zionists are just jews? HMM.

oh dang and look at this:

but i thought zionist jews werent jews? zionism wasnt a jewish movement created by jews for jews? israel isnt the one jewish country so it’s perf fine to argue for its eradication? hmm. let’s explore more.

HMMMMMM

https://www.rootsmetals.com/blogs/news/when-is-anti-zionism-literally-just-antisemitism

wonder why the kkk’s connecting zionism and the holocaust 🤔

hmmm it’s almost like antizionism was always just jew hatred. good job, morons.

[heatherchadler]

me watching people only support palestine and demonize zionists because the people online told them to

[loki-god-of-mischief-13]

Reading People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn, and this line hits particularly hard right now:

“The Soviet Union this pioneered a versatile gaslighting slogan, which it later spread through its client states in the developing world and which remained popular today: it was not antisemitic, merely anti Zionist. (In the process of not being antisemitic and merely anti Zionist, the regime managed to persecute, imprison, torture and murder thousands of Jews.) “

[jewishpangolin]

Pretty often it's not even about Israel to begin with, they just say the most rancid antisemitism you've ever heard and when you call them out, they claim "it was just criticism of Israel". Bitch, you were talking about Diaspora Jews!

They whine about "weaponization of antisemitism", but the real weaponization is them using antizionism to get away with antisemitism.

I see the same old refrain in many “progressive” spaces - “you can’t even criticise Israel without being labelled antisemitic, blah blah blah.”

Yeah, that’s probably because most people actually do seem to find it impossible to talk about Israel without resorting to tired, old, done to death antisemitic tropes - “they secretly own and control the media and have world leaders in their pockets”, “baby killers”, literally accusing Israel of poisoning wells, as if that isn’t one of the oldest libels that exists.

If the shoe fits, either shut the fuck up and wear it or get some new material.

[david-goldrock]

Would you keep me in your closet?

When they tell you that we're the murderers of Christ, blasphemous heretics, who poison the wells and eat christian babies, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're of an infirior race, that our presence destroys culture, that we backstabbed your country, that having kids with us will leave them with the same flaws, that we are inherently and unchanginly evil, and that killing us is a mercy, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're overlords of a secret society, secret cosmopolitiains of the deep state, controlling the media and the economy for our benefit, leaching on the work of good, hard working people, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're white supremacists, fanatic nationals, colonizers, explotators, slave owners, oppressors, occupiers, starving, ethnically cleansing, genociding, harvesting organs off of Arab children...

Today, when they knock on your door and ask politely if you happen to hide me in your house or basement, whatever they may call me, whatever excuse they came with

Would you keep me safe in your closet?

[for-zionists]

Radiohead vocalist abandons the stage in protest of pro Palestinian chant

Not only are Radiohead an amazing band, but they're also sane about Israel: A very rare occurrence these days.

[ashinafantasy]

oh, you don't think israel should exist? then you must be advocating for an end to antisemitism worldwide so jews have a safe place to live, right?

...right?

[spot-the-antisemitism]

huh must a friend of genki who said Jewish women are too annoying to be raped maybe if eviscirated at the same time

At this "Pro-Palestine" march, some counter protesters held signs reading "Rape is Not Resistance."

This protester carrying the Palestinian flag surely meant to say "Zionist women are way too ugly to be raped," right? /s

British-Palestinian John Aziz:

As a Palestinian I am disgusted to see such an antisemitic statement from a woman holding a Palestinian flag.

"Jewish women are way too ugly to be raped, maybe with a condom"

[mylight-png]

You know how I know that the anti-Israel hate is deeply rooted in antisemitism, and not just "social justice" or whatever people are calling it right now?

Let me tell you a common situation I encounter:

So, being a college student away from home, I don't have a car here. This means that if I ever need to go anywhere, I need to get an Uber or Lyft or something along those lines.

I always tuck in my Bring Them Home tag, magen david, turn my "am Yisrael chai" pin to the inside of my clothes, etc. I hate doing it, but I have heard of violently antisemitic drivers, and I'd rather not risk it, considering I'm alone in the car with them.

Every time, I call my mom. It makes me safer to have someone on call. And every time, she makes the same two recommendations.

The first is to put in an address of a neighboring house for pickup, because the house I live in has my landlord's car out front, and his car has stickers in Hebrew on it.

The second is, if asked where I'm from, to say Russia. I don't get asked where I'm "really from" unless I'm with my parents usually (they both have strong accents). But it's a warning my mom repeats every time anyway. The choice of Russia isn't random, I was raised fluent and can back up the claim if need be with random knowledge. But I have never been to Russia, except for the airport once to catch a connecting flight to Israel. I was, however, born in Israel, and I've been there multiple times (unfortunately not since 2014 though). So to say I'm from Russia is a lie, and to say I'm from Israel is the truth.

Both are countries at war. Russia, unlike Israel, actually started the war. Unlike Israel, Russia actually does have a history of colonialism, genocide, imperialism, and worse.

So why is it safer for me to lie about being from an aggressor country than to tell the truth about being from a country caught in a war it didn't want?

Antisemitism. Anti-Russian hate crimes globally didn't spike, Russian women haven't been raped as "justice" for Ukraine. Russian businesses weren't commonly vandalized simply for being from Russia. Meanwhile, all of these things were done to Jews as a result of a war Israel did not start.

If this global response to the war wasn't antisemitism it would be equally safe or unsafe for me to give either answer.

But in reality, it's safer for me to lie about being from Russia than to tell the truth about being from Israel.

That's how I know it's antisemitism.

[chaoticneutral4]

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[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

The very worst thing about the “activists” who misunderstand and misuse Zionism is they’ve taken a word and a movement coined by a minority who have been oppressed and persecuted for thousands of years to describe their hope and desire for freedom from that persecution and self determination in their ancestral lands - a right that all people should have - and twisted and distorted it to mean the most evil thing they can possibly think of. And even with the knowledge that the vast majority of Jews are Zionist in some fashion, they still have the absolute audacity to go “I don’t hate Jews, just Zionists” and happily and gleefully spout shit like “Zionists kys” or saying they would be happy if all Zionists died horribly, and they deliberately use ‘Zionist�� instead of ‘Jew’ to give themselves plausible deniability and to put anyone calling out their rancid behaviour on the back foot. They know damn well what they’re doing. Just say that you want another Shoah and be done with it. At least that would be honest.

It’s despicable. It’s cruelty beyond belief. And, it goes without saying, it’s rancidly antisemitic.

[spacemanatees]

i find it so funny when people go "antizionism isn't antisemitism" and then just casually throw in the most nazi statement you've ever heard in your entire life, like damn, it's pretty clear you fucking hate jews, just own it already and stop hiding behind politics.

[chanaleah]

"Decolonize Palestine!"

Palestine.

A name which means nothing and is not even pronounceable in Arabic, the language spoken by most everyone in Palestine.

A name which means something in Ancient Hebrew: invaders.

A name which was forced upon the Roman province of Judea after the Romans kicked out (one might even say ethnically cleansed) the indigenous population of Judeans (or Jews).

A name which was used by the British, a massive colonial empire - but not ever used by an independent state.

A name which has not been consistently used throughout history to refer to one group of people.

If you want to decolonize Palestine, you should go back to the name of the last independent state there (pre-1948). The Kingdom of Judah.

[jewishpangolin]

"It’s interesting to me that the only time where we have to do this both sides-y rejection is when the victims are Jewish. When we saw a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes over the last couple of years, there was no immediate pushback that said, now you have to reject these other forms [of hate]. In fact, after George Floyd, when we were talking about Black Lives Matter, there was a clear distinction that if you responded by saying, “All Lives Matter,” that yes, that’s true that all lives matter, but if you were doing it reflexively you are denying the real pattern and problem of what was happening in the African American community."

[dovymcjewpunk]

If all the Jews you know are antizionist, I don't want to hear anything from you about tokenism. You just happen to have five friends from one specific 8% of a minority that is .02 % of the population?