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>Someone writing “F Zionists” very likely does not make a distinction between Zionists and Jews.

That's completely untrue and this is either bad faith or you need to go outside more.

Here, I'll say it myself: Fuck Zionism.

I have no issue with Jews. I just don't like settler colonialism.

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> I have no issue with Jews.

You do with at least the 95%+ of Jews who support Jewish self-determination in the Jewish homeland. That's all Zionism is.


It's always one sided though. Israel has a right to exist, Palestine doesn't have a right to exist.

Palestine was never a thing.

It was the Ottoman Empire, then British, then Israel.


Palestine was never a thing.

So what? Israel wasn't a thing for almost 2000 years. If we can make one country out of whole cloth, why not another one? Why is Israel privileged here?

I will ask you the one question.

Should Israel exist at all according to you?

Because of:

>I have no issue with Jews. I just don't like settler colonialism.

I feel you will say "No"

Some say yes but don't think they should "expand" by winning wars started by arab nations. Also wrong.

Its all signaling comming from you and people like you.


I don't even know what that question means. Israel does exist. There's no "should" to discuss. Are you asking if I think Israelis should be kicked out of Israel? No.

I mean, the real question is surely whether you think Palestine has the right to exist or what you think should be done. The Palestine side is the part that's really up in the air.

>Its all signaling comming from you and people like you.

And just what is this supposed to mean, exactly? Yeesh.


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Ok, bad faith it is then. Nobody reasonable in good faith could conclude that I "hate Jews" based on my reply. Just because I called Zionism settler colonialism? That's a view so prominent that it (apparently) has its own wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism

And as mentioned in the wiki, that's probably a characterization that the leaders of the movement 100 years ago would agree with themselves!


Nobody conflates Zionism with Jewry more than Israel does. Do you have a problem with them doing it?



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