cross-posted from: https://freefree.ps/users/faab64/statuses/114885039540867898

For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse, punished those trying to end it and helped, funded, protected and armed the genocidal regime of Netanyahu.

#NeverAgain #NeverForget #NeverForgive #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #USpol #EUpol #Politics

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  • x0x7@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    It’s interesting that Zionists today will say that any criticism of Zionism is anti-semitism when Zionism, according to you was invented by an anti-Semite. So I guess it’s actually Zionism that is anti-Semitic? The only think I don’t buy about that is maybe he was the father of modern-Zionism, but movements for anti-diaspora have always existed among the Jewish people.

    I did some quick reading. I’m not buying that he was an anti-semite considering it was the anti-semitism surrounding the Drayfus affair and the rise of an anti-semite Karl Lueger which motivated his views on Zionism. I see some reference that some have argued that his attack of Jewish people who disagree with his position as not being good Jews as being anti-semetic. But I don’t think that’s fair. Everyone argues what constitutes a good American or bad American or this or the other. Me saying that good Americans should oppose drug laws because freedom, if I were called anti-American for having an argument of what would be a good American position I don’t think that would be fair. I’ve interestingly seen Zionists today call Jewish people who aren’t anti-semitic which is a bit funny. I guess both sides have a history of calling either side anti-semetic even though both sides are Jewish. Probably not fair in either case and really just a pejorative.

    Who said anything about Constantine. I referenced Jesus. Well before Constantine. Zionism and the want for Jewish control of the region and anti-diaspora absolutely existed in Jesus’s time. Jesus absolutely did not hate all Jews, considering he was one, almost all of his friends were Jewish, and we have no reference to his opinion of Jewish people in other regions. He seemed to have a deep care for the common people among the Jewish of that region. But when it came to the people who were politically Zionist living in Israel (or its political equivalent of the time) he consistently only ever had petty mean words to say. And that’s coming from kind as a butterfly Jesus. He literally called them the spawn of Satan. Whether Jesus existed or not the point is that reading the words of that real or non-real person as provided from the Bible, as you would expect a Christian to do, it would be very odd to infer a religious responsibility toward Zionism.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah. When you bring up that Palestinians are Semites you open up a fair can of worms for how non-nonsensical these labels are in general. It’s almost better not to think about it and just accept the semantic meaning. My gosh we shouldn’t get into Ashkenazi genetic admixture, and how ironic it is that a predominately ethnically-Germanic, among many other things higher on the ingredient list than ancient Hebrew, are calling Palestinians antisemetic. The poor relation of these words to actual reality is almost better to not think about. Everyone knows what’s meant by today’s backward verbiage.

        Interesting article.

        Yeah, a bunch of Europeans colonized Israel and are calling the Semitic inhabitants antisemitic.

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          I think we should get into it. Often. But not right now, I have something to do.