In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
Anti Zionist is not anti Semite.
But Zionism is anti-Semitic.
As a Texan Jew with some real shitheads living near me, I can confirm this. I can also confirm that you can be pro-Zionist while anti-Semite.
Yep I have couple of Jewish friend who are same as u. Neytanhu is giving them the bad name. I still believe two state solution is possible, but politic and power will not let it happen.
After visiting Israel a few times and knowing my family, foreign exchange students, members of my community, etc. I can assure you that Netanyahu is not the only problem. Granted, he’s certainly making things way worse. But Zionists are fucking terrifying with how thirsty they are to kill Palestinians.
I’ve got some cousins who absolutely see through all that bullshit and they are miserable because they nearly feel alone in a sea of hatred. It’s a really dangerous time to be an Israeli protestor. One of my cousins has already been arrested at least once for dissenting and refusing to kill peaceful protestors, and this was years before Oct. 7th.
Are Orthodox Jews mostly Zionist? I saw some videos coming out of Orthodox Jews harassing other Jews who were protesting in Jerusalem?
The idea of giving Jews their own country and sending them all there has historically been quite popular with anti-semites. When we talk about Nazi’s “final solution” we often skip over their earlier solution to the Jewish Question, which was to send us all to Madagascar [0]. In 1933, Nazi Germany signed the Haavara agreement, which would have Germany subsidize Jews emigrating to Palestine. This caused a divide within the global Jewish community, most of which was attempting boycott German exports (which funded the Haavara program), and viewed the program as legitimizing the Nazis. Despite this general opposition among the global Jewelry, the Zionist Congress of 1935 voted overwhelmingly in favor of the program.
Fundamentally, most anti-semitism (and racism in general) is rooted in an ideology of ethnonationalist. In this view, the concept of an anti-semetic Zionist is not a contradiction at all. They don’t hate Jews, they just want them to go away so that the anti-semites can get their pure Aryan/Christian/Arab nation back. If that means that the Jews get their own pure Jewish nation for themselves, then that seems quite reasonable.
Dr. Achim Gercke seved in Nazi Germany’s Ministry of the Interior, where he was an expert on racial matters. He decided the system banning marriage between Jews and Aryans. In his article entitled “Solving the Jewish Question”, he writes
Dr. Johann von Leers served in the Ministry of Propaganda and was a highly influential Nazi thinker. In his paper,The End of Jewish Migration, he writes:
Both of these articles are well worth reading to understand the thinking that ultimately led to the Holocaust. The final solution was only devised, when the Nazis realized that their other solutions would not work.
[0] Not that they were particularly tied to that location, it is just what they thought was most practical. They were initially concerned that attempting to establish a Jewish colony in mandatory Palestine would end up being a political and humanitarian disaster. A position that is difficult to dispute with the benefit of hindsight.
Yeah, but any time I slightly question my Israeli family about parts of that, I’m told that I’m repeating antisemitic talking points, that the media in my country is full of idiots, and that I don’t understand how it is because I don’t live there.
The weirdest part is that the people whose opinions I’m raising are pre-Jewish state rabbis. Those dang antisemitic rabbis…