Complicity in genocide is not confined to the Israeli right. Members of the liberal organization that spearheaded the anti-Netanyahu protests last year are now blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza.
@fedwards9965@rmblaber1956@mondoweiss@palestine@israel These headlines contradict: "Early Zionism was heavily influenced by socialist and anarchist ideas..." Zionism was a nationalist, colonial project from the start. They may have had communal living in a kibbutz, but that doesn't make this socialist or anarchist when the communal living was (is) part of a racist land stealing, colonizer project.
"transitive. To exert influence upon, to affect by influence." (OED)
The term "influenced" means having an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something. When used in a context where it doesn't refer to being a singular cause, it implies that the effect is part of a broader set of factors contributing to an outcome.
@fedwards9965@mondoweiss@palestine@israel Can't you see that Zionism is intrinsically racist? By definition, therefore, it cannot be "socialist", which is committed to social justice, no matter how deluded the early, or later, Zionists may have been about their ideology & its implications.
I don't think you're giving any weight whatsoever to the Jewish situation in Europe that sparked the need they felt to have somewhere they could feel safe
When you are considered "other" by, literally, everyone then wanting a safe haven FOR themselves becomes understandable
That doesn't excuse how the project became subverted and what it eventually became