”antizionism isn’t antisemitism and actually YOU’RE the antisemite for conflating zionism and judaism”
has to be one of my least favorite phrases of all time. most of the time, the people saying this aren’t even jewish. what would you even know about judaism and antisemitism?
second, when your antizionism relies on antisemitic tactics to be legit (which, let’s be honest, is the overwhelming majority of the time), it IS antisemitism.
so much antizionism relies on flat-out LYING about judaism and jews.
“the jews- sorry i mean EVIL ZIOS are all just european colonizers”
factually incorrct; ashkenazi jews are a minority of israel
even if ashkenazis were a majority, that doesn’t make them foreign or colonizers. ashkenazi jews are, by definition, jews who experienced diaspora in europe. you can’t colonize your indigenous homeland
“the european zionists steal palestinian babies so there will be more ashkenazi jews!!!” is just —> “the jews drink the blood of christian babies!!!”
so many people just say whatever they want, but they replace “jew” with “zionist” and suddenly that’s okay.
also, it’s not wrong to “conflate” your judaism and your zionism when the former directly influences the latter. i support decolonization for ALL indigenous people, but my zionism specifically has to do with the fact that i’m jewish.
our culture is levantine. our religion is. our language (hebrew) is. our holidays are. our people are indigenous to the levant.
even the two jewish traditions most known by non-jews—hanukkah and stepping on glass during weddings—are because of the temple in jerusalem. hanukkah is literally about the rededication of the jewish temple, it doesn’t get more zionist than that. stepping on glass is literally a reminder of the destruction of the temple IN ISRAEL. are y’all still not seeing this?
anyway in conclusion goyim don’t know what they’re talking about but then again are we really surprised.
