"Blank is not a zionist, they just acknowledge Israel's right to exist!" Acknowledging Israel's "right to exist" has ALWAYS been the definition of zionism. Yes, even if you're "critical of the government". Yes, even if you "feel sorry" for Gaza.
The reason zionists (who claim they aren't zionists, they just support Israel's right to exist) are suddenly bending backwards and doing incredible mental gymnastics to try to convince you that zionist doesn't mean what it has always meant and that instead it purely means "people who are cheering on the genocide" is that these zionists are trying to put distance between themselves with the "racist, bloodthirsty ones" because they don't want to confront that they are and have always been complicit in this genocide by acknowledging and normalizing the establishment of a settler-colonial project, by seeing ANY "right" to this ethnostate, by claiming there is any worth or good in apartheid. You ARE a zionist, and there's blood on your hands.
Being anti-zionist means you acknowledge that Israel does NOT have a right to exist. Full stop. You cannot say you're anti-zionist and say anything that implies that Israel can and should exist either now or in the future.
And yes, this goes for every single settler-colonial regime around the world.
^Exactly so. There is no non-violent version of Israel. Whatever "nice" Israel you're picturing still exists on stolen land that was acquired through ethnic cleansing and forced displacement. Every inch of it. Israel's existence is inherently violent.
By justifying its existence, by arguing that there's any way for Israel to exist without harming the land and its people, you paved the way for what is happening today and what has been happening for decades.
