
YOU’VE changed the definition, not the vast majority of people who identify as Zionists. I feel exactly as you do about Israel. |
You misspelled “uncomfortably accurate for a radical, extremist Zionist like me” |
Joe Biden is a Zionist. |
Really weird flex, but go off ig. |
Joe Biden is senile |
That (believing in the existence of a Jewish homeland) is the EXACT definition of Zionism. From the OED: “Zionism is a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.” The far left has distorted the term and made it a slur, which is why so many people view them as anti-Semitic. “Anti-Zionist” effectively means “death to Israel”. |
You’re either intentionally dishonest, or a moron. Probably both. Do you think the Ku Klux Klan’s mission statement reads “Kill Black People”? Zionism is a disease. It uses the false definition you tried to sell to cloak its insidious actual mission that has already been outlined above. |
Take it up with the Oxford English Dictionary folks. The above quoted definition is absolutely the commonly understood meaning of the term. |
Again, that’s fully incongruent with the policies and actions of the state. |
Separate issue entirely; does not change the meaning of the word. |
Can Zionism exist without the Us? That’s the question |
Disagree. I’ll repeat the point - the Ku Klux Klan mission doesn’t say anything about killing young black men. According to your logic, criticism of the Ku Klux Klan should therefore be blunted because the stated mission of the movement underlying the organization does nothing that could be said to offend one’s sensibilities. Critics of the KKK should have to dance around the obvious cloaked meaning in the mission? Horseshit. |
Zionism predated the state of Israel and US support for even the concept of the state of Israel. So yes — of course it can. |
Except that you’re wrong about your history: the Klan charter expressly calls for “maintain[ing] forever… the supremacy of the white race,” along with other nastiness. So your historical comparison is totally inapt or, to use your terminology, “horseshit”. |
You’ve done nothing other than stating “because I say so” to demonstrate how Zionism isn’t the insidious, perverse movement that we see in action today through the policies and actions of the State of Israel. We see how Israel operates. Your response is to argue that we should not believe our lying eyes, and instead acknowledge a credo that bears zero resemblance to what our eyes see. Respectfully - maybe concentrate your efforts to defend Israel’s systemic atrocities with gullible people who are willing to blind themselves to accept you at your word? |