Canada’s largest private high school recently organized a genocide solidarity trip in which students cooked for Israeli soldiers. In a sane world, the school’s charitable status would be revoked.
It is rather ironic that Canadian high school students would travel to Israel, and cook a meal for IDF soldiers, just as the IDF is restricting the food supply for Palestinian children, to the point where children are dying. Teaching students to ignore oppression, and reward the oppressors, is quite the achievement. Of course, this is the miniscule version of what our American President is doing. He just rewarded IDF war criminals with 16 billion. #Palestine
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel Worse than this, we have citizens that have and are fighting as members of the IDF, including a former cabinet minister's son. When people left to go fight with ISIS, we didn't let them back easily, but a different standard will surely be applied this time.
"genocide of Israelis" @EyalL ? The ICJ finds Israel's bloodthirsty reaction prima facie genocide.
Your profile indicates that you're Israeli:
"Worried about the rise of fascism." Israeli Zionism pre-dates Fascism and Nazism. The parallels suggest that the latter are offspring of Zionism. Fascism is undeniably rising in Israel, but it's been evident from the very beginning.
"Worried more about inhumane murderers just km from me, who murdered 1500 people in cold blood, in 1 day." You'd be better off worrying about the inhumane murderers who are your fellow citizens.
As an Israeli, you naturally want to keep your ill-gotten gains. For Jews in general, that's probably not best.
@DropBear Actually, Fascism is eternal. It came first, and the specific zionist faction in Israel the west enabled is just one flavor of fascism (zionism overall is technically a doomsday cult) closely resembling nazism, b/c Lehi Stern Gang Irgun consorted with the Nazis and learned all the tricks the Nazis learned from N America's invaders
Eco's definition of "eternal" is rather idiosyncratic @heretical_i :blobcat_thinkingsmirk:
The roots of Zionism can be traced to the early 17th century. Until relatively recently, it was a gentile concept. Jews didn't start using the term in relation to themselves until very late in the 19th century. Jewish Zionism comes in many forms. The form that spawned Israel dates to that time period.
Fascism was founded during World War I by Italian national syndicalists who drew upon both left-wing organizational tactics and right-wing political views. Italian Fascism gravitated to the right in the early 1920s.
@DropBear What I meant by doomsday cult. Mid-1800s Im central asian jewish background. My grandpa was chased across the baltic by the pogroms to those E Eu slums where Zionism originated, then to Ellis. The west enabled a scumbag fascist faction. Jabotinsky... people like that. Proof that the scum with guns get to define terms like Zionism @EyalL@mondoweiss@palestine@israel
It looks like @EyalL has blocked me. Here is the reply that I was going to send him:
Israeli Zionism (as distinct from other forms of Zionism, Jewish and otherwise) is the notion that someone who claims to be Jewish is entitled to take the home of a Palestinian, solely because they claim to be Jewish. Such injustices precipitated the October 7 atrocities and continue to endanger Jews worldwide.
Abuse of the term "antisemitism" has effectively neutered the concept. Here's a definition for you: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
What if ethno-nationalism is bad actually? What if pushing people that aren't part of your ethnicity out of your land will only lead to ethnic cleansing and genocide?