• SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      Zionism is a political philosophy. Israel is a secular political state. Judaism is a religion. Jewish is an ethnicity as well as followers of a religion.

      One can support Jews and Judaism without supporting the rightwing Israeli government or the country. Millions of Jews worldwide already do.

      Germany condemns Iran, does that mean they’re anti-Persian? No.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        5 hours ago

        No, there really isn’t. The Nazis collaborated with the founding Zionists, Israel has always been a genocidal settler-colonial project and Germany has retained support of it.

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            It’s pretty cut and dry that the original Zionists were anti-yiddish anti-Communist anti-semites that allied with prominent anti-semites against diaspora in order to pursue their settler-colonial project, which the Nazis gleefully worked for.

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                1 hour ago

                Yes, antisemetic Jewish people living in different countries deliberately spreading antisemetic lies that they can’t integrate and need an ethnostate. The fact that they were Jewish doesn’t make settler-colonial genocide “not cut and dry.”

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          Yes, it is complicated which is why I said “not 100% awful” instead of completely justified or something like that.