Comment by _menelaus
2 days ago
Ridiculous. Most of the world has a negative view of Zionism, as they should, and ethnosupremacy in general.
2 days ago
Ridiculous. Most of the world has a negative view of Zionism, as they should, and ethnosupremacy in general.
Most of the world has a positive view of self-determination for every other group; Ukrainians, Palestinians, the Irish, etc.
Those groups are indigenous to the land they live on and didn't create their "state" 75 years ago by ethnically cleansing other people's homeland.
There are 2 million Arabs in Israel. There are 0 Jews in areas under full Palestinian control.
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> Those groups are indigenous to the land they live on
Homo Sapiens is only indigenous to South Africa, pedantically speaking.
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There's nothing supremacist about Zionism, it's just the support of Jewish self-determination. Efforts to twist it into something nefarious are just propaganda with no etymological basis.
Think about what you're saying. Zionism the idea that a particular ethnic group (the Jews) will have the authority to determine what happens in their country (Israel). That is a textbook case of ethnic supremacism. And that's not even mentioning the violent expulsion of the Arabs that this de facto entailed.
Most Zionists have a goal of preserving a Jewish majority for pragmatic reasons - history has shown that it's the only way to ensure the safety of Jews. That's not a supremacist ideology at all.
Moreover, no country is perfect, and we shouldn't have double standards just for Israel. Can you identify any other Middle Eastern country that compares favorably, in terms of diversity and tolerance of all religions and ethnicities?
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