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Is Anti-Zionism And Antisemitism the same thing?
Short answer: theoretically yes, but there are exceptions…
A slightly longer one: Not at all, but statistically most often they are used in the same way to mean the same thing.
Now for a more full answer… a guy in a YouTube comment asked me “If Zionism isn’t Judaism, why is Congress passing laws saying it is, laws now passed and, on the books, saying that anti-Zionism is anti Semitism? Looks like Jews want them to be one and the same.” - And here’s my reply:
"So how are you both for the oppressors and the oppressed?"
This is the middle east, so of course it’s even more complicated than that. I’ll try to give a very compressed answer here, it’s missing a lot of nuance.
First, I’m a humanist, I want no one person to die or suffer. This is not a Utopia so I’d like to have Hamas’ operatives stripped of a few freedoms, i.e. put in jail, for their crimes, However I don’t think their subjects (That’s civilians in dictatorship-speak) should suffer for their wrongdoings.
Ceasefire may mean even more death at this point
Once in a while I answer some random person online and it ends up so long it’s worth making a whole post about. This is in response to a Bernie Sanders fanboy that was devastated with his stance on the ceasefire question. Bernie in Jewish, has visited Israel a few times but as far as I gathered, he is not identifying as a Zionist. However he IS a humanist, and therefore his many fans (I suppose mostly self proclaimed young gen Z self-proclaimed socialists) are appalled by his support for the IDF to continue ploughing into Gaza and snuffing out all Ḥamas combatants. The guy actually said Bernie “made him cry” in the replies to this post by Norman Finkelstein, a holocaust survivors’ son who criticizes Israel’s claim for territories. Here’s my answer more or less:
Post Pandemic Poem
I hope to live a few more years
and find a way to get more healthy.
I don’t regret decades of beers,
but if death comes, I hope it’s stealthy.
I have survived a year of doom,
with cancer, plague, and long work days.
And now I pick an FC Loom,
as evening sets, and vent malaise.
For though our woes seem oversized,
and future questions unsurmised,
I’m calmer, Jack, I got my own;
I rolled my sleeve and got me Pfized.
Have you written to the FCC today?
Just posted this on Dear FCC:
Dear FCC,
I’m Ira Abramov and I live in Ramat Gan, Israel. Net neutrality, the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data that travels over their networks equally, is important to me because without it My freedoms of expression, usage and being informed are hurt. A pay-to-play Internet worries me because new, innovative services that can’t afford expensive fees for better service will be less likely to succeed. My entire professional and activist life is based on the ability to learn through the net, communicate with and activate people through it. It’s the real land of equal opportunities that can’t be matched today by political and pricey educational systems. It’s like taxing pedestrians for walking certain streets, reading the signs and walking to stores. It is an unfair and unjust tampering with an important public resource.