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I don't know how much of a hot take this might be, but at least to me, it do be feeling like zionism is just socially acceptable fascism anymore.
I have some quibbles with american fascism thesis (i think america is basically post-fascist/dormant fascist state), but active settlerism seems like a missing accelerator for this transformation into something nazi-adjacent.
I like the idea of calling it dormant fascist, it feels like a solid way of putting it to me. We do need a term to refer to the way it inches toward fascism slowly but when pushed lashes out full "blood and soil" style in fits and starts before recoiling a bit after the situation calms down. That behavior is specific to outlining and seeing it as an immuno response of capitalism, in my eyes anyway.
I excuse any and all antisemetism from palestinians and other middle easterners at this point. I can't even imagine going through something like this and not hating the religion the zionist entity nominally fights for.
Yeah but it's still fighting racism with racism, no? I get that it's easy for me being a white dude from america to denounce zionism without veering off into antisemitism, sure, and I can understand why a muslim might end up hating all jews. It's complicated for sure, but like I said I think back on what Fred Hampton said about fighting fire with fire, you don't fight it with racism (fire) but water (solidarity).
Saying they excuse it doesn't mean they endorse it just that they understand why people react that way
I wouldn’t tell native Americans to fight settler colonialism with solidarity and I’d think their hatred of Christians was justified. I think the timeline of colonialism and the specific place of black Americans in the 60s compared to Palestinians may make the two situations distinct.
Fair. I just don't want to add anymore fuel to the fire that all muslims hate all jews and that all leftists are antisemites.
Pour one out for all the victims of anti-white racism 💔
This is exactly what Zionists want.
Well, it's working
Not saying I would necessarily blame Palestinians at the moment, just saying that normalizing anti-Semitism in the place of anti-Zionism is their goal and we should be aware of that. If we start doing that and accepting it then I personally think it's going to just fuel Zionism further. This is partly why you have braindead German anarchists who are pro-Zionist and anti-Palestinian.
We should also generally reject anti-Semitism in principle anyway.
Boohoo
My partner stopped wearing the star of david around her neck not too long ago. It seems more often than not it has been co-opted for nazism.
It will be the cross in the US/elsewhere. Religion is ripe for harvest during this international resurrection of Fascism. While Fascism 1.0 also leveraged/bastardized religious culture I'm surprised it wasn't front-and-center in terms of its iconography. Ukraine seems to be doing it the retro way, though.
Regional/material characteristics of stoking fascism...
I've seen a few pictures of people over the years getting branded with them, no less. I've actually recoiled at the sight of a Star of David. It's a symbol that really should be retired when this Nazi regime finally crumbles.
Country full of demons.
Fascist seem to max out at six lines in their artwork.
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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