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[Video] Green party leader Zack Polanski claims Zionism is not historically racist and claims the problem with Israel is only the Netanyahu government.
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IndustryStandard lemmy.world IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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ohulancutash feddit.uk ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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#2 · Quote Reply

Oh dear

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geneva_convenience lemmy.ml geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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#3 · (edited) Quote Reply

This ain't it

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flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc) Moderator flamingos@feddit.uk
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#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

He didn't make anything close to the claim that the only problem with Israel was Netanyahu's government, though?

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IndustryStandard lemmy.world IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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He didn't make anything close to the claim that the only problem with Israel was Netanyahu's government, though?

He says Zionism is not an inherently racist ideology and blames the racism squarely on Benjamin Netanyahu and his government that is quite explicit on 1:24. He also accepts the false notion that Palestinians demand their homeland back from the genocidal colonizers is equal to the genocidal colonizers trying to wipe out the Palesitnians.

Zack even pretends that Zionism originated from the Holocaust and conveniently leaves out the 70+ years of its organisation before it, and Zionist colonisation of Palestine which started long before the Holocaust.

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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
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#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

Big yikes. That does it, I'm voting reform. Farage definitely isn't a zionist, he's a far more honorable man that'll see us through.

(Yes, yes.)

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ruuster13 lemmy.zip ruuster13@lemmy.zip
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#7 · Quote Reply

He's right. If you turn on him for this, maybe you've been propagandized 🤷🏽‍♂️

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wewbull feddit.uk wewbull@feddit.uk
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He's right so far as "the label doesn't matter". What matters is how you stop what's happening today, because what's happening today is wrong.

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IndustryStandard lemmy.world IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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He's right so far as "the label doesn't matter". What matters is how you stop what's happening today, because what's happening today is wrong.

The label does matter. By not acknowledging that Zionism has been a racist ethno-supremacist ideology based on Jewish surpremacy from its very origin, it turns a very black and white settler colonial project into a "nuanced gray" area.

Then by starting the history of Zionism after the Holocaust, it hands Zionism an excuse for its inexcusable ideology. Zionism had existed almost as many years before the Holocaust as the Holocaust is behind us now.

In the 1800s settler colonialism and wiping out natives was a cool hip thing to do. These days people realize that ethnically cleansing a population to steal their land is not actually a justifiable undertaking. Thus Zionist revisionism was invented by prominent Zionists in the Hasbara field. To lie and whitewash the history of Zionism. Polanski is spreading a false revisionist narrative of Zionism.

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wewbull feddit.uk wewbull@feddit.uk
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The label does matter. By not acknowledging that Zionism has been a racist ethno-supremacist ideology based on Jewish surpremacy from its very origin, it turns a very black and white settler colonial project into a "nuanced gray" area. Then by starting the history of Zionism after the Holocaust, it hands Zionism an excuse for its inexcusable ideology. Zionism had existed almost as many years be...

I don't see how a genocide is nuanced gray area. There is no justification for that.

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