
Zionism is quite literally dead. The Jewish state is already there. Being a Zionist today is like being an abolitionist today. Israel has intentionally killed a grand total of zero civilians in its DEFENSIVE actions in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran. It is not evil to protect your country from terrorists. If the cartel came into San Diego and raped, killed, tortured, and kidnapped American citizens we would stop at nothing to end them. And we would be right to do so.
In my opinion Zionism’s unique evil comes from its near total control over the narrative. You cannot criticize the state of Israel without being labeled an antisemite or a Nazi by cretins like #1. You would think being morally opposed to genocide makes you not a Nazi but I guess once you have total control over the narrative it doesn’t really matter what’s moral anymore
When I criticize the government of Iran I never have someone showing up and saying any criticism of the Iranian government is Islamophobic. That happens constantly for Israel. Someone *can* criticize Israel in an antisemitic way, and someone *can* criticize Iran in an Islamophobic way. But it’s only with Israel that people pretend all criticism is bigotry.
There actually is one Muslim country where this does happen to a degree, it’s just not as common as with Israel. Turkey claims that acknowledgement of the Armenian genocide is a global anti-Turkish conspiracy. They say they were simply combatting Armenian terrorists who were genociding Turks. They even made a monument to the Turkish genocide victims of those dastardly Armenians.
Israeli forces executed 15 aid workers in Gaza and buried them in unmarked graves. They detained a surviving aid worker who witnessed it for a month and tortured him in prison. The IDF claimed it was due to “professional failures.” You know what other country claimed it was only killing terrorists? Apartheid South Africa.
When Poncho Villa massacred American civilians in Columbus New Mexico in 1916, America retaliated and violated Mexican sovereignty. But you know what it didn’t do? It didn’t try to permanently occupy Mexico, annex it, or replace Mexicans with American settler colonists. That’s because the goal wasn’t to colonize Mexico.
This wasn’t the case in the Mexican-American war, which America intentionally provoked with Mexico in the Thornton Affair by intentionally sending American troops into Mexican-claimed territory until Mexico retaliated. The goal in that war was to seize Mexican territory for settler colonialism. This is actually the same thing Israel did in the Golan heights, according to testimony from Israeli General Moshe Dayan