• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    What brain damage makes you say such false information with your whole chest? Bernie might be Jewish, but he is absolutely NOT a zionist and spoken out against Israel’s actions.

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      10 hours ago

      Bernie says Israel has a right to exist, therefore Bernie is a Zionist. It’s not that hard to understand.

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        9 hours ago

        That isn’t what zionism means. Zionism is about the aggressive expansion, which he has firmly came out against.

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          8 hours ago

          That is literally what Zionism means.

          Zionism is an ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through colonization in the region of Palestine… Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible

          Zionism - Wikipedia

          By stating that Israel has a right to exist, you are validating the Zionist ethos.

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              7 hours ago

              You realize Tel Aviv wasn’t always occupied by Zionists, right? The entirety of Israel is a colonial project. You can’t just arbitrarily draw a line between one year and another and say that only ethnosupremasist colonial acts of aggression after that year qualify as being enacted under Zionism.

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                7 hours ago

                Bro, you copy and pasted that. Please work on your reading comprehension before flippantly accusing one of the few good people of being heinous. Get professional help.

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                  6 hours ago

                  I’m not being flippant, I’m being factual.

                  A direct quote from the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Zionism serves my purpose well, when someone is contesting the very simple definition of that term.

                  Bernie serves the Imperial core. Bernie is a Zionist. These are irrefutable facts, as evidenced by your unwillingness to engage with the argument.

                  Bernie is good for Americans, but not good for the world. How much weight you put on humanity and how much weight you put on your own wellbeing is up to you, but not everyone is American; you’d do well to remember that as you continue your political journey.