#discourse imagining a non-reactionary anti-zionism that would not act to destroy the jewish communities it exerts power over

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This is a good example of how a non-antisemitic anti-zionist movement would almost be a contradiction in terms, because non-jewish political anti-zionism starts from the premise that yes jews ARE invaders and parasites and unwanted guests living on the sufferance of christians and muslims who have a natural right to expel us and that zionism is a violation of this right that must be redressed.

This post would like to have it both ways and assert that jews fully belong where we live AND grant that anti-zionism seeks "decolonization." But to say that it constitutes "colonization" for the jews in Israel to have sought self determination for themselves, is to admit that jews do NOT in fact fully belong. As it turns out, jews' belonging someplace is actually contingent on not asserting ourselves politically, on our subjugation or assimilation. Everywhere jews have been the outgroup for as long as we have lived we can at a moment's convenience be deemed actually "colonizers" and asked (forced) to leave. Which is why every anti-zionist regime has indeed done so.

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if you are anti-zionist the most effective work you can do is to ensure your community--politically and geographically-- is safe for jews to exist in. im serious. is your community safe for jews to be in? do you know any jews? if you do, are they scared of you? if you don't, if they are, why?

zionism is the premise that jews need to take exclusive control of our own homeland by force because there is nowhere else in the world for us to belong. that's it, that's the heart of it. if you disagree with the premise, you need to be part of the counter argument: that the jews of the diaspora are valued by their fellow citizens in countries around the world. that the jews of europe and asia and africa and the americas belong where they were born, that the jewish people deserve to belong wherever we live, that we are not invaders or parasites or unwanted guests living on the sufferance of christians and muslims who have a natural right to expell us when we've outstayed our welcome.

i'm not israeli. that land is the home of those who were born there, and i was born in california. i know a lot of my fellow americans right now that say they're anti-zionist but what they mean is they want israel gone and me along with it. and that is, ironically, why there's zionism in the first place.

are you anti-zionist or anti-jew? are we your neighbors or not? if you really want decolonization, get your own community in order. if you want all the jews to just fucking shut up already, you can join a six thousand year tradition of not actually ever managing that no matter how many genocides get done.