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Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?


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No.
Two biased sources?

Wow! Pro-Palestinian protest in Russia, too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI0e0F-Bptc

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Biased? One is from Faux which takes the side of Israel and the other is a debate between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine from 4 years ago... Like you didn't bother to watch the 2nd one -_-

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British planned ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians (1/2 the population) from their country in 1947. How do you justify ethnic cleansing?

I support Jews having their own country because of rampant anti-Semitism in Europe. But, traveling thousands of miles to push-out Palestinians, who were living peacefully with Jews and Christians, was a horrible idea. It also angered Muslims throughout the Middle East who then kicked-out their Jewish populations. I blame the British and Germans for this mess. They should be made to fix it!

Are you aware that places like Kenya, Alaska, Australia, etc. were being considered as a location for Israel?

I can't watch videos at work and long videos are too long with the limited off-hours I have. Links to articles are better for me.

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Keelai,

My god, your dishonesty never ends! I started a whole thread that went into great detail about why Israel is absolutely necessary in order for Jews to have any real presence in the Muslim world. You saw that whole explanation so you know why the Jews need Israel. But you just completely ignore the uncomfortable facts of the Muslim world. Do you have any answer at all for Islamosupremacy? Any answer at all?

Everything you say about zionism and Israel is completely asinine. You say Jews should have their own country but shouldn't travel thousands of miles to build one as if Jews could build a state without traveling a long distance. If they built a state in Europe it would be in one small spot and Jews from other parts of Europe would have to travel long distances to get there. Jews from the Muslim world or America would have to travel that much farther to get there.

The Arabs in the land of Israel didn't live "peacefully" with the Jews there. That's just a myth. The truth is they oppressed the Jews as much as they could. Their oppression of Jews would have been worse if not for the Turks tamping it down. During a brief period in the 1830s when the Turks lost control of the land, the Arabs in Safed carried out a massive pogrom against Jews for several weeks.

Pointing out that Zionists briefly considered other places for a Jewish state such as Kenya, Alaska and Australia doesn't help your argument. You don't explain why those places would have been any better for a Jewish state. If the Zionists picked one of those places then the non-Jews there would have been ethnically cleansed instead. The British didn't "plan" the ethnic cleansing of Arabs. They simply left the area. It's absurd to ask Rorikon how he justifies the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Arabs after you implied that it would be okay to ethnically cleanse other people in some other part of the world in order to build a Jewish state. It's absurd to ask Rorikon how he justifies the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Arabs in the aftermath of World War II, when 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe and 14 million people were ethnically cleansed in the partition of India. You excuse the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Arab world so you’re no better than Rorikon. In that time period nearly the entire world was complicit in ethnic cleansing.

There was nothing arbitrary about the Zionists choosing the land of Israel. They chose it because it was the Jewish holy land. It was the only place any Jews actually wanted a state. And it was the only place that Jews ever had the power to get a state. Zionists had limited power and they used that power to get the land of Israel.

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You mean you are going to STFU for a change? Probably not.

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What I want to know is: Why is any one particular group of people above criticism?

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For Israelis it seems to be. Any form of criticism about them it somehow relates to anti-semitism.

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Various world peace organisations are highly critical of Israel

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You know that's nonsense. No country gets more criticism than Israel.
Not to mention anti-semitism/anti-zionism is through the roof thanks to haters of Western values like you.

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The only group that should be above criticism is atheists.

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How would you know? You are not an atheist, you are a Satanist.

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There is no such thing as Satan. He's just one of many fictional characters in a book of fairy tales and fables called the Bible. Aren't you a little too old to believe in imaginary friends?

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have any proof of god or satan?

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Proof, evidence, citation, etc......I said to try something new.

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why would i try anything other than those things? thats all i or anyone should care about.

i will not follow you down your rabbit hole of imbecility, because i care about what can be shown to be the truth. i am not basing my beliefs off feelings and emotions like you.

so i ask, have any proof of god or satan? besides "my feelings"?

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i will not follow you down your rabbit hole of imbecility

And yet, you insist begging for proof; it doesn’t get more imbecilic than that.

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asking for proof of a claim is imbecilic? i dont think im allowed to use the words on here that would describe your extremely low functioning, delayed brain. DNA played a cruel trick on you at birth that led you to this cognitive level.

do you believe in leprechauns too?

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Yes, anti-zionism is clearly antisemitism. To clarify, anti-zionism is opposition to Israel's very existence and antisemitism is hatred of Jews. Anti-zionism is absolutely antisemitism because the facts on the ground confirm it. The people on the ground actually fighting against Israel have always been antisemitic. The Arab countries that fought major wars against Israel almost completely emptied their countries of Jews through ethnic cleansing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world

In fighting against Israel in 1948, the Arabs also ethnically cleansed 100% of the Jews in the areas of the former British Mandate that they conquered. Even supporters of the Palestinian cause outside the Mideast are antisemitic. The day after the Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7th, the American group Students for Justice in Palestine celebrated the supposed fact that Israelis were fleeing Israel. Even Students for Justice in Palestine want Jews gone from the land of Israel.

Anti-Israel activism all around the world always leads to the persecution of Jews. The current war in Israel has led to violent threats against Jews all over the world. In Dagestan in Russia an angry mob stormed an airport when a flight arrived from Israel in order to try to find Jewish passengers. In England Jewish students have been advised to stop wearing certain clothing so that they can't be easily identified as Jewish. In Berlin a government official advised Jews to hide their Jewishness for their safety.

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Good job cheapening the word until no one gives a fuck anymore. If Jews can be anti-semites, it obviously doesn't mean much.

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How did I cheapen the word 'antisemitism'? I didn't say that any Jews were antisemites so I don't know what you're talking about.

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So, are these people Jews?

https://www.youtube.com/@2628342/videos

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I had a feeling that's what you were talking about. It doesn't prove me wrong in the slightest. You've made a very weak argument. Notice that your counter argument doesn't even try to address the issues I brought up to show how anti-zionism is antisemitism. The fact of the matter is that the Arabs on the ground in the Mideast doing all the actual fighting against Israel emptied their countries of Jews. The fact of the matter is that Students for Justice in Palestine want Jews gone from the land of Israel. The fact of the matter is that anti-zionist protestors throughout the world are a physical threat to Jews. These are unquestionable examples of antisemitism. Do you deny that?

How does Neturei Karta being anti-zionist change any of those facts? How does Neturei Karta being anti-zionist change the clear antisemitism of those anti-zionist responses to Israel? The fact of the matter is that Neturei Karta doesn't care that anti-zionism is dominated by violent antisemites. They just don't care that anti-zionism is antisemitic. Their anti-zionism is rooted in fanatical religious dogmatism that's impervious to the violent antisemitism of their allies. The mere fact that some Jews are indifferent to the violent antisemitism of non-Jewish anti-zionists doesn't somehow make that antisemitism disappear.

So I haven't cheapened 'antisemitism' in the slightest.

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So, Jewish anti-zionists aren't anti-semites, but all other anti-zionists are? I'm confused.

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I was trying to be charitable to Neturei Karta by saying that they're just indifferent to the violent antisemitism of their non-Jewish anti-zionist allies. I suppose the distinction all depends on whether you can honestly say that those who are indifferent to the violent antisemitism of those who dominate a political cause they belong to are not themselves also antisemitic because of that indifference. The fact of the matter is that anti-zionism is dominated by the Arabs on the ground actually fighting Israel and they are clearly antisemitic. They, along with the violent anti-zionist protestors around the world trying to hurt and threaten Jews, define the anti-zionist cause. You seem to be making the very weak argument that anti-zionism isn't antisemitism just because some anti-zionists are not themselves antisemitic.

But all that still totally ignores a larger point that I've been making all over this forum. The State of Israel is the only chance for equality, or possibly even the existence, of Jews in the Muslim world. Anti-zionism is the belief that Jews don't deserve to have equality, or to even exist, in the Muslim world. The belief that Jews don't deserve these rights in the Muslim world is antisemitic. Thus, anyone who is anti-zionist is antisemitic, even if they don't believe that they are. Thus, Neturei Karta would be antisemitic for that reason as well.

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Or, maybe you're anti-semitic for trying to force all Jews into a violent political cause.

"The Muslim World", you mean their homes? Imagine the entitlement.

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I'm not trying to force anyone into a violent political cause. I'm just explaining the requirements for Jewish equality in the Muslim world. I realize that those requirements are a large inconvenience for many people. I just want anti-zionists to fully understand that they oppose equality for Jews and to be honest about it.

The fact of the matter is that achieving equality often requires violence. And by your absurd logic everyone who supported a violent Jewish response to Nazi Germany would have also been antisemitic. By your logic anyone urging European Jews to start a war against the Nazis would also have been antisemitic. That would be another example of trying to force Jews into a "violent political cause". Jews have a long history of violent enemies so a "violent political cause" is often necessary for Jews to protect their very existence. But you're not really trying to deny that opposition to Jewish equality is necessarily antisemitic.

As to your second line, whose "homes" exactly are you referring to? Because it's simply undeniable that the State of Israel is the only chance Jews have for equality in the Muslim world. You need to be clearer about what "entitlement" you're referring to.

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Good job cheapening the word until no one gives a fuck anymore...

That's actually the scary thing.

Once someone - accused of being anti-Semitic simply for being against the genocide & ethnic cleansing of an entire people - turns around and says "Well you know what, if standing for that means I'm anti-Semitic well then f-ck it, that's what I am", then the power of that will be gone and the people who genuinely need that as a means of protection, will become weakened.

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But you would have to agree that someone falsely claiming that Israel was committing genocide and getting called antisemitic for it wouldn't weaken the word 'antisemitism'. Falsely accusing Israel of genocide isn't actually standing for anything.

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...you would have to agree that someone falsely claiming that Israel was committing genocide and getting called antisemitic for it wouldn't weaken the word 'antisemitism'.

LOL 😂 Nice unintentional irony...

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I don't see any unintentional irony here. You're going to have to explain it to me.

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It's just like those bloody cats isn't it? They want to kill all the mice don't they? They want to wipe them all out... Just get rid of the lot of them.

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You're still being completely coy and I still have no idea what you're talking about? Do you have an actual point?

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There was nothing "coy" about it.

Would you claim that someone making that statement about cats was anti-Semitic or, in your opinion, just making a false statement?

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It sounds like you're asking me if I think that someone could make a false statement about a group that's meant to negatively reflect on them without being bigoted towards that group. I would say no. I don't know why you're asking me if someone making those statements from above about cats would be antisemitic. Is that a typo? What do negative statements about cats have to do with antisemitism? I still don't see any irony in what I said.

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No, it wasn't any typo. YOU wrote:-

...falsely claiming that Israel was committing genocide and getting called antisemitic for it wouldn't weaken the word 'antisemitism'.

You said that word "anti-Semitism" would not be weakened by a statement which had nothing to do with anti-Semitism.

If it wouldn't be weakened, you must be claiming that making statements which are "false" (in your opinion) are an equivalence to anti-Semitism, which is completely idiotic.

The irony being that you responded with that drivel to my comment that it was important not to weaken the meaning of the word to those who are really suffering from it...

(I suspect this will invoke a response like "Oh but what about Hamas, they're really bad" or "But Israel has a right to defend itself!" because what I've written is a pure show of the consequence of poor logic and therefore deflection is the only really riposte...)


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What I said is not idiotic. Whether or not a false statement about Israel is antisemitic would all depend on the intent behind the false statement. And your initial statement in this thread about weakening the meaning of 'antisemitism' seemed to heavily rely on the assumption of the truth to the accusation of genocide. You set up your argument in a way that seemed to concede that if the accusation of genocide were false then making that accusation would be antisemitic. Are you actually accusing Israel of genocide?

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Whether or not a false statement about Israel is antisemitic would all depend on the intent behind the false statement.

You've literally just re-stated the ludicrousness of the very first thing I commented upon!

Someone believing Israel is acting in a genocidal manner and undertaking ethnic cleansing is NOT the same as making an anti-Semitic statement.

It is indeed absolutely idiotic to claim this.

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I reiterate what I said about the logic you initially used. Your initial statement in this thread about weakening the meaning of 'antisemitism' seemed to heavily rely on the assumption of the truth to the accusation of genocide. You set up your argument in a way that seemed to concede that if the accusation of genocide were false then making that accusation would be antisemitic.

Second, falsely accusing Israel of genocide could be kind of like denying the Holocaust. Denying the Holocaust is almost universally considered (at least by Jews) to be antisemitic. Holocaust denial is generally regarded as antisemitic regardless of the actual intent behind it. I think the same could be said of a false accusation against Israel of genocide because the point of such an accusation is to delegitimize Israel. It's an argument against Israel's existence so the intent is to leave Jews without a state and I would say that is antisemitic.

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Second, falsely accusing Israel of genocide could be kind of like denying the Holocaust.

That is an insane and abhorrent leap of logic and one which can only be made to serve a very specific purpose. One which many Jews themselves are disgusted by.

I can add nothing further to this discussion given this is the path you have gone down to justify your comments. Again, ironically, this is exactly what I was talking about in my initial post you replied to.

Good day to you Sir 👍

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No, it's clearly not an insane leap of logic. Both involve questions of genocide. Both involve huge matters that impact the very fate of the entire Jewish people. Both involve claims about Jews that are not always necessarily driven by hatred of Jews. It sounds like you agree that all Holocaust denial is necessarily antisemitic. Why would that be so but the same rules don't apply to false claims that Israel has committed genocide?

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Yes! It's politically incorrect to say you're antisemitic so the antisemites simply use the expression Anti Zionist.
It's the same thing.
The same hatred.

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No. No connection.
Being against zionism does not equal being against jews, and has little connection with it.
The true enemies of jews are actually the zionists.

How I see it:
Jew - same as any other person. Personally for me they are same as arabs. They dont eat pork, so I have to be careful if they visit.
Zionis - mainly religious fuckwads that think that god promised them some land. Not necessarily jewish.

Zionists, in line with all other religious fuckwads, will pretend that all jews share their goals, which is false. But they will use every opportunity to bitch and moan that anyone against them is anti jews, which is of course false.

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For the Arabs on the ground in the Mideast who have done all the fighting against Israel ever since it was established, being anti-Jewish has a huge connection to anti-zionism. The surrounding Arab countries responded to Israel's establishment by emptying their countries of nearly all Jews. The State of Israel, or "the zionists" as you call it, is hardly the "true enemy" of the Jews because it's Israel that's protecting the very existence of Jews within the Muslim world. Millions of Jews couldn't possibly live in the land of Israel without the Jewish state.

To be clear, zionism is simply support for the continued existence of the State of Israel. Zionists are not "mainly religious fuckwads", whatever that means. Millions of Israeli Jews are actually secular. The overwhelming majority of American Jews are zionists. And some anti-zionist Jews, notably Neturei Karta, are themselves religious dogmatists whose anti-zionism is driven entirely by their religious dogmatism.

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