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hollyhoppet wrote

There's a big push by the far-right news media in the US to conflate Zionism with Jewishness, and so, to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-semitism.

My friend the American left is doing this too lmao. But yeah you are completely correct on all points anyway.

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flabberghaster wrote

For this reason I don't even use the term Zionist; i feel like most people are sincere when they say they oppose Israel. But some are just using "look at these Zionists" as a find and replace for Jews and then hiding behind palestine when they get called on it.

For that reason I always criticize the specific thing someone's doing that I don't like, and I do think people need to be more careful about letting the right take on left talking points as a way to try to peel people off.

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twovests OP wrote

I believe it, yeah. It's not something I'm exposed to (typical "every Zionist I know is a Christian, and every Jewish person I know is a leftist antizionist").

Do you think it'd be wrong to say that the far-right really weaponizes Jewish people in this way though? I really saw "Zionism is not Judaism" as a kind of a common refrain over this past year.

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hollyhoppet wrote

The far right weaponizes leterally everything lol so I don't think it would be wrong at all. It's just worth not ignoring the fact that biden is siccing militarized police on protesters for being "anti-semitic" too.

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twovests OP wrote

ahh yeah

i would include joe biden in the christian zionist right (genocide and whatnot) but you do have a point

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