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The New York Times does baby brain hasbara and pretends that an ideology is the same thing as a religion. (hexbear.net)

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[-] thisismyrealname@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The students invoke historical issues of colonialism and apartheid.

colonialism and apartheid are things of the past, silly! don't believe your lying eyes, we don't have those anymore!

“Let’s take any other ethnic or religious minority,” said Eden Yadegar, a junior at Columbia. “Would you only accept them if they were willing to denounce an integral part of their religious or ethnic identity? The answer is absolutely not. So how come it’s OK to say, you know, we accept Jews, but only if you denounce your religious and social and ethnic connection to your homeland? It’s ridiculous.”

Zionism is obviously not an integral part of the Jewish identity, if it were there wouldn't be publicly Jewish anti-Zionists.

[-] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The last point reminds me of notions of "my religion tells me to be racist or homophobic". Like, if your "homeland" (your homeland will always exist as a land, separate of whether or not there's a "Jewish state" there) can only exist through ethnic cleansing, I'd argue it's right to ask Jews to denounce it, AS WELL AS all non-Jews who support it, because most Zionists are not Jewish.

In the 2000 years or so since the Bar Kokhba revolt, Zionism has only existed for the last 200 years. This is like Dutch racists appealing to tradition to defend our blackface helpers, when Sinterklaas didn't have any helper(s) at all for centuries.

Also, I accidentally read "Eden Yadegar" as "Eren Yaeger" lol

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