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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

This survey shows a majority of American Jews are Zionists. The percentage of Zionists is much higher among Jews living in Israel. That gives you a solid majority for Zionism among Jews.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

That survey says the opposite of what you think it does. Zionism now is essentially the Jewish version of white supremacy. It's radical. It's dangerous.

But when the survey you link to states quite clearly:

"And most Jewish adults took the position that God “did not literally give” the land of Israel to the Jewish people (42%) or said they do not believe in God or a higher power at all (24%)."

That's not Zionism as currently defined.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Funny how you cite a source that doesn't even contain the word "Zionist", "Zionism", "Zion" anything.

If you actually have a look at the data you can see there's very significant chunks that don't have an issue with BDS, that don't think that Netanyahu is in any way serious about peace. Those are not the frothing-at-the-mouth Kahanites that people on the US left often mean when they say "Zionist". Yitzhak Rabin was a Zionist. Murdered by a Zionist.

It's more complicated than that and may I remind y'all that Hamas specifically targeted Hippie Kibutzim during their attack, the same kind of people who go into the West Bank during olive harvest so that settlers have a harder time shooting Palestinians, which is one of the reasons why the Israeli government doesn't give a rat's arse about the hostages.

The biggest enemies of the Zionist project, currently, is the type of people running the Israeli government. Because if you're out for a place for Jews to call home, to live in peace and prosperity, antagonising the fuck out of everyone is not the way to go about it. Traitors to the movement, the lot of them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Seriously, we should stop listening to americans, brits and germans on this. The literal rest of the world is feeling nauseous but they are still repeating propaganda while people are being massacred.

Of course this have to do with the rise of ultranationalism. Germany for the germans, make america great again, Brexit. Isreal for the jews.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well a lot of german were nazis.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

The highest result for the NSDAP in elections was 43%.

Comparing Jews to Nazis is Antisemitic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They were comparing Jews to Germans, not Nazis; they were comparing Zionists to Nazis.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

No. Comparing Zionists to Nazis is not antisemitic. I am a Jew and not a Zionist. Many Zionists are Christians. Zionist does not equal Jew or vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Who's talking about jews? I thought Israel was an open society with equal rights for all people.

Anyway they're bombing civilians with white phosphorus. Fuck off. Watch yourself in the mirror real hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

They were still the first party. My point is that you cannot equate jews and israel otherwise we can stab the first jew since they support using white phosphorus on civilians

Equating a political entity with an ethnicity is the rationale for collective punishment.

Collective punishment which you obviously support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

America and Israel. The only two countries in the world with Jews.

FACT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Together they contain more than 80% of Jews.

Recent Jewish population dynamics are characterized by continued steady increase in Israeli Jewry and flat or declining numbers in other countries (the diaspora)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I see. So based on your "evidence," 60% of the percentage of the 80% of Jews that live in America in that combined 80% total of Israel and the U.S. are "Zionists" (even though that's not what your poll said).

This is what the poll said:

Among U.S. Jews overall, 58% say they are very or somewhat emotionally attached to Israel,

"Somewhat emotionally attached to Israel" is not Zionism by any stretch of the imagination.