USUALLY WHEN I POST A VIDEO, it's because I think it's good or useful to watch. Today I'm going to post a short video I feel the opposite about because while purporting to define "Zionism" so as to improve the discussion around the crimes and actions of the Israeli government, it rigs the definition to equate anti-Zionists with antisemites - which has been an effort by the most dishonest and crooked of Zionists and those in their hire though probably not really caring about the issue during my entire lifetime. That lie is, in fact, crumbling, ironically due to the situation created by the most overt attempt to do that, the crooked and dishonest definition of "antisemitism" cooked up by the IHRA which governments have either willingly adopted as a definition or which they have been blackmailed into making a basis of laws to suppress the criticism and even reporting of the truth about what the Israeli-fascist government does in its genocide and apartheid against those they exclude from real citizenship so they can dispossess them, remove them, harry them out of Israel or, when it's convenient to them, kill them. I have posted my slightly edited response to it below.
No, it's not especially helpful because a lot of People who are not bigots and not uninformed oppose Zionism because Zionism - as it really is since the Zionists settled on the colonization of Palestine (and it was a term used by Zionists, themselves) - it is an inherently racist, dishonest ideology that sought to impose a "Jewish" state on an area in which Palestinians were already living - who were a mix of mostly Muslims but also Jews and Christians - the definition of that state excluding those who weren't Jewish. You want to limit the current use of the word to those who are anti-Jewish bigots who are either dishonest or ignorant when most of those I hear are not bigots or dishonest or ignorant and they know exactly what they mean, that they oppose such an ethno-nationalist state which inevitably turns into apartheid, discrimination and the violent expulsion of non-Jewish Palestinians as, in fact, every government that the state of Israel has had has practiced to one degree or another. It is not a fact that "Jews" control the media, it is a fact that the intimidation of Zionists has a control of the majority of the media in the United States, for example, and, as you tangentially mention, a lot of those are what is misnamed "Christian Zionists," misnamed not for their Zionism but for the fact that their "Christianity" is one that has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus, Paul, James, etc. You also leave out the fact, and it is a fact, that a large percentage of both "Christian" and "Jewish" Zionists, are, in fact antisemites. The current ambassador from the United States, Mike Huckabee, is an antisemite whose pseudo-Christianity believes that the state of Israel will bring on the "end-times" when he believes Jesus will come back and that all Jews who don't convert to Christianity will be obliterated something he shares with many of the TV preacher-Zionists and many a true believer in such pseudo-Christian cults. You also don't mention that many of the Zionists from the start were as vicious in their stereotyping of Jews and as slanderous as the worst of gentile antisemites, that includes not only pre-state Zionists like Herzl and Jabotinsky, it included David Ben Gurion, the first PM of Israel.
And many anti-Zionists are, as you do mention, tangentially, Jews, many of them very credible Rabbis and many egalitarian-democratic though secular Jews, as well. Also many Christian anti-Zionists, such as myself, are opposed to all ethno-states. I'm as opposed to France or Spain being an ethno-state, suppressing language and cultural minorities, or my own country which has been a white-supremacist ethno-state for its entire existence, many of those states being for People of Color what is, in truth, a fascist state. Many of those states controlled by the pseudo-Christian, often antisemites mentioned above.
So, no, your short video doesn't help, it doesn't clarify a complex situation that defies simple definitions.
Update: No. Absolutely not. No. I absolutely reject the related dishonesty that only Jews are allowed to discuss this anymore than you would have had to be a South African to discuss South African Apartheid, an American to discuss America's apartheid and indigenous form of fascism which has plagued us and which is still embedded in our Constitution, white supremacy and every single related form of anti-egalitarian and so anti-democratic and IMMORAL ideology that has ever existed anywhere. That phony "rule" along with such rules as you may not compare the crimes of genocide against any other People anywhere by calling attention to the similarity of it with the to the Nazi's genocide against Jews is clearly in aid to the racist ideology that my criticism caused you to invoke that phony, dishonest "rule" against.
Anyone who says I don't have a right to say what I said is welcomed to fuck off.
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