guys please can you read posts and infographics abt antisemitism before rbing them i see the most blatantly zionist shit get put on my dash by leftists all the time even other leftist jewsâŚlike please watch for zionism more actively, itâs not a small or harmless fringe ideology, it has been the dominant ideology in global judaism for decades through indoctrination and has close to entirely hijacked ashkenazi judaism in the us, and its primary directive has been genocide against palestinians since its colonization of palestine began. zionism is a white supremacist colonialist ideology and you need to treat it as such; you need to be actively watching out for zionist propaganda and deplatforming zionists who post and spread it. you can also absolutely never trust any information about antisemitism that comes from zionists and the state of israel; the zionist portrayal of antisemitism in the diaspora is universally sensationalist, islamophobic, and racist propaganda used as a fear tactic against the jewish diaspora in order to manipulate jews into aliyah and assimilation into the colonial project of the state of israel, and these posts and infographics will never ever mention or bring up zionists/state of israelâs own hand in perpetuation of antisemitism against the diaspora, let alone their antisemitism against palestinian jews. you cannot underestimate zionists and overlook zionist rhetoric in information you spread or treat zionist rhetoric as an acceptable element of posts you want to rb, their ideology is incredibly insidious and manipulative and historically very successful at indoctrination, like just learn how to spot zionist rhetoric and red flags and donât spread that shit and point it out to other ppl when u see it donât let ur friends rb that shit either
Does anyone have useful information regarding spotting Zionism?
i also wanna know about how to spot stuff like this.
Generally:
-equating being pro-Palestine with being antisemitic, or saying that most people who are pro-palestine/anti-Zionist are antisemites, is a big one. This is not to say that antisemitism doesnât exist among people who are pro-palestine; antisemitism is global and present in every community of people who arenât Jewish, and we must fight antisemitism in our communities, but the idea that opposing Israel as a settler-colonial project is fundamentally antisemitic has been used to silence Palestinians and those who stand in solidarity with usâincluding Jewish people who support Palestine.
many antisemites actually support Israel because they donât want Jewish people to exist in Europe, the US, or anywhere else but Israel, as well as other unhinged reasons: for example, many antisemitic Evangelicals are ardent supporters of Israel because they believe the full colonization of palestine will lead to the rapture; Trump, who accused Jewish Americans of disloyalty (drawing upon an ages-old antisemitic trope) is one of the most Israel-friendly US presidents of all time; Richard Spencer lauded an Israeli law that confers the right to self-determination in Israelâs borders to Jewish people alone.
You really canât decide whether or not someone is antisemitic based on their stance on Israel. So how do you tell the difference? Look at how and when criticism of Israel is brought up. If someone brings up Israeli war crimes on a completely unrelated post about Jewish people or antisemitism, for example, thatâs obviously antisemitic. Use your judgement with compassion for both Palestinians and Jewish people in mind.
-characterizing the Jewish diaspora as weak or inferior to Jewish people in Israel; a general disdain for diasporic Jewish cultures and languages
-insistence that all Jewish people, including those who arenât Israeli, should or do support Israel
-Using âArabâ instead of âPalestinianâ when referring to Palestiniansâok this one can happen unintentionally, but look out for it in combination with other signs. our culture IS Arabized, so while this technically is not incorrect, it is often done in an effort to erase our existence. Similarly, anyone who claims that there never was a Palestinian people, that weâre simply Jordanian, etc., is making a conscious choice to erase us. The idea that all Arabs or even all Muslims are allies to Palestinians, or even accept us as being part of the same culture, is a deeply stereotypical and homogenizing view. Other Arabs donât always look kindly on us, to put it lightly, both on a systemic level and on an interpersonal level. Palestinian refugees in Arab countries are often second-class citizens.
-calling anti-Zionist jewish people âself-hatingâ
-Any mention of human shields is so racist and dehumanizing I donât even know where to begin with that. Same with mentions of âterror tunnelsâ, and people who jump to say any Palestinian killed, maimed, or jailed by the IDF is a terrorist. A lot of Palestinians are killed or jailed just for existing!
-denying or minimizing the everyday violence of the occupation, or blaming Palestinians for their own oppression
-saying in earnest that Israel is a democracyâdemocracy for whom? Certainly not for its second-class citizens, the Palestinians.
-any claim that Israel is simply âdefending its bordersââsetting aside that those borders are built on ethnic cleansing, itâs not. Itâs expanding them. At the cost of homes, livelihoods, and lives.
-Nakba denial or minimization, denial of massacres like Lydda, Sabra, Shatila, etc.
-denial of Israeli apartheid
-support for the IDF
