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Well yeah, that’s exactly my point and why I am critical of anybody actively voting for the ADL-backed definition (even the “darling” of the leftwing of the Democrat Party) exactly because of that.
Israel is a nation state, which definitely is not the same thing as Jewish People. In fact the idea that a political entity like a Nation can represent an entire people defined by ethnicity and religion is the real Racism, since it relies on the idea that “they are all the same”, which is the very foundation of Racist thinking.
Worse, there are actual Jewish Groups which are against the very existence of Israel, so anybody claiming against that the Israel represents all Jews is actually denying the very words (loudly expressed, even) of many Jews.
Even worse (or yeah, this shit has so many layers of bad), given the acts being committed by the Nation State of Israel, equating Israel with Jewishness is the same as implying that that which is Israel does is that which Jews As a People do, or in other words that murdering others for their land, Genocide and even mass murdering children merely because of their ethnicity are, as logically follows from the claim that Israel represents the Jewish People, all in the nature of being a Jew.
In my view it’s harder to, given that Nation State’s actions, be any more anti-semitic than linking Israel to the entirety of the Jewish People.
I can barely begin to describe the level of disgust and repugnance that I feel at anybody who would directly or indirectly (by claiming criticism of Israel is anti-semitism) link the depravity of Israeli politics, actions and even extreme colonialist racism to all members of an entire ethnic and religious group. That this shit is then leveraged to given military help to Israel in their execution of a modern day Holocaust against the Palestinian people just multiplies this disgust and repugnance several fold.
I can understand many people’s arguments about “compromise” and so forth but, shit, if a supposedly leftwing politician cannot even just merely refrain from actively vote in favour of such an extraordinarily racist (at many levels) thing like adopting an ADL supported definition of anti-semitism that actually links the entirety of the Jewish People to the most repugnant and inhumane of crimes being committed right now and second only in their depravity to what the Nazis did, then you have no principles whatsoever.
There are very few truly politically defining acts on can take, and as I see it nowadays “I supported Zionist goals” has risen to be up there with “I supported Nazi goals” in their power to define somebody politically.
PS: But, hey, maybe AOC’s vote is merely the equivalent of Chamberlain’s “peace in our times” - naively “compromising” with Evil ultimately for no actual gain.
Well yeah, that’s exactly my point and why I am critical of anybody actively voting for the ADL-backed definition (even the “darling” of the leftwing of the Democrat Party) exactly because of that.
Israel is a nation state, which definitely is not the same thing as Jewish People. In fact the idea that a political entity like a Nation can represent an entire people defined by ethnicity and religion is the real Racism, since it relies on the idea that “they are all the same”, which is the very foundation of Racist thinking.
Worse, there are actual Jewish Groups which are against the very existence of Israel, so anybody claiming against that the Israel represents all Jews is actually denying the very words (loudly expressed, even) of many Jews.
Even worse (or yeah, this shit has so many layers of bad), given the acts being committed by the Nation State of Israel, equating Israel with Jewishness is the same as implying that that which is Israel does is that which Jews As a People do, or in other words that murdering others for their land, Genocide and even mass murdering children merely because of their ethnicity are, as logically follows from the claim that Israel represents the Jewish People, all in the nature of being a Jew.
In my view it’s harder to, given that Nation State’s actions, be any more anti-semitic than linking Israel to the entirety of the Jewish People.
I can barely begin to describe the level of disgust and repugnance that I feel at anybody who would directly or indirectly (by claiming criticism of Israel is anti-semitism) link the depravity of Israeli politics, actions and even extreme colonialist racism to all members of an entire ethnic and religious group. That this shit is then leveraged to given military help to Israel in their execution of a modern day Holocaust against the Palestinian people just multiplies this disgust and repugnance several fold.
I can understand many people’s arguments about “compromise” and so forth but, shit, if a supposedly leftwing politician cannot even just merely refrain from actively vote in favour of such an extraordinarily racist (at many levels) thing like adopting an ADL supported definition of anti-semitism that actually links the entirety of the Jewish People to the most repugnant and inhumane of crimes being committed right now and second only in their depravity to what the Nazis did, then you have no principles whatsoever.
There are very few truly politically defining acts on can take, and as I see it nowadays “I supported Zionist goals” has risen to be up there with “I supported Nazi goals” in their power to define somebody politically.
PS: But, hey, maybe AOC’s vote is merely the equivalent of Chamberlain’s “peace in our times” - naively “compromising” with Evil ultimately for no actual gain.