@gretared@TruthSandwich is a troll. He proved so obnoxious that no other Mastodon instance would put up with him. He had to start his own instance. The fact that he could do that implies financial (and probably political) backing.
@KormaChameleon there was never, in any context, an “extermination project”. Zionism was opportunistic and lucky aligning with colonial powers of the time, and that’s just about it.
Western Jews who started the Zionist movement and established the first congress in Basel, send missions to explore various regions of the world into which Russian Jews can be transported. Palestine was not the only option, nor the preferred.
For Hertzl it had to be with international and legal authority, either of the Ottomans, when Palestine was discussed, or the British in respect to various parts of Africa.
The “bunch of rich people” who gathered in Basel were Western and Russian Jews (mostly poor or lower middle class in fact) “. They could not gather in Austria, where Herzl lived, because the authorities objected.
Jewish plutocracy at this stage had no interest in #Zionism non whatsoever.
Indiana University's "Liberation Commencement" was a celebration of the students' brave commitment to fighting powerful institutions and their involvement in challenging Zionism and the Palestinian genocide.
yes, because of #Zionism, the political ideology that #Israel has a right to Palestine.
Israel has illegal settlements in the #WestBank.That is an invasion because it is illegal.
The fact that #Gaza has no free access to the outside world (no international maritime port, no air space/airport, endless checkpoints) amounts to invasion in the form of #IsraelApartheid
Israel is a US-funded nuclear outpost: that is an invasion of Palestine.
Obviously you @h4890 can't back that claim of yours with links, otherwise you would do as you're told, wouldn't you?
Same BS different propaganda stories been the "babies in ovens", "systemic rape" allegations, AND last not least your classic "anti-semitism" fairytales...
I've offered quite a few opportunities for you to provide links, but since you ignored them the disability of yours became obvious.
#Israel / Zionism cannot produce a just peace. Only external pressure can end the Israeli apartheid. @raph), May 2021]
#Zionism has created a dominant narrative in Israel that justifies the occupation and human rights violations against Palestinians. This narrative portrays Israel as acting in self-defense, Palestinians as unwilling to compromise for peace, and justifies the occupation, discrimination, and human rights violations against Palestinians.
Only external pressure can meaningfully push Israel to end the occupation and achieve a just peace.
"I ask our prime minister and our fellow parliamentarians: how many international rights laws must Israel break for us to say enough? How many lives does it take to call this a genocide?" Senator Payman asked.
@Smith007 is a very new account. It seems to be dedicated to 'hasbara'. Posts from that account don't show readily for me, but there are ways. 😉
I'll just repeat what Yarden Katz wrote:
"Anyone wishing to understand how the Holocaust was possible, how people who may be warm and kind in their personal lives could support the murder of an entire population deemed subhuman, should examine Israeli society."
"... the zionist project, culminating in Israel, is profoundly contrary to Jewish traditions ... Israel has suppressed these Jewish traditions and ways of living while hijacking parts of them when convenient."
Remembering the ethnic cleansing, massacres and Zionist terrorism that lead to the creation of #Israel which remains to this day a pariah state and a plague on the Middle East and the world.
I've seen this sentiment expressed in many ways. There are indeed remarkable parallels, but the Zionism that spawned Israel was around long before Nazism. It might be more accurate to say that Nazism is an offspring of Israeli Zionism. #Zionism #Nazism #Israel #Palestine #genocide @palestine @israel
article contains links to a statement by over 1,000 [#Jewish professors opposing equating #antiZionism with #antisemitism. Also contains link to a statement by Jewish students of #Columbia with the opposite position]
Racist undercurrents in Australian society should not be downplayed @faab64
To some degree, we're all subject to it. Yes, even white Anglo-Protestants.
This podcast is good at making #history easier to digest, if you're interested--
Up this week is Zionism, Zionist #propaganda, Balfour, the guy chosen to mess up Palestine, who had previously wreaked havoc in Ireland and denied entry to Jews fleeing the holocaust who were hoping to find refuge in the UK. And Herzl &more stuff.
from #NewYorkTimes [gift article below]
The One-State Solution
By Edward Said
Jan. 10, 1999
This is an article by the late #EdwardSaid. He was a #Palestinian - American philosopher, academic, literary critic, and political activist. and a professor of literature at #Columbia University.
It spells out his position that only a binational state based on equality will work in #Palestine - #Israel.