It’s so anti-colonial and anti-imperialist of Americans and Europeans to forcibly redefine “Zionist”, a term an indigenous minority ethnic group uses to refer to a broad range of ideologies. Obviously us stupid Jews needed Westerners to project their own concepts and feelings of colonialism onto our language! Otherwise we might have been forced to have nuanced discussions about things like “ethicality and praxis of resettling native territories following land back”, which just requires too much intellectual debate for monolithic dummies like us. It’s so much easier to redefine Zionism as to Evil Genocidal Settler Colonialism. Thank you White People for showing us the truth :)
The comparison I like to use is Feminism.
Feminism is a complicated, overarching movement that holds many competing and often mutually exclusive ideologies and movements within it. Several branches of Feminism are highly objectionable, and frequently disavowed by adherents of other forms of Feminism. However, if someone called themselves an Anti-Feminist you'd rightly assume that they were a misogynistic chud, woefully uninformed, or both.
Zionism is a complicated, overarching movement that holds many competing and often mutually exclusive ideologies and movements within it. Several branches of Zionism are highly objectionable, and frequently disavowed by adherents of other forms of Zionism. However, if someone called themselves an Anti-Zionist you'd rightly assume that they were an antisemitic chud, woefully uninformed, or both.
Many people who agree with the first don't seem to understand the second.
