I mean, yes, dehumanization leads to murder, but Tree of Life synagogue victims didn't need that label to be targeted. Shooters in both cases had ways to make their hate feel justified.
hate against an ethnicity is absolutely fucking despicable. that is why fascism is absolutely fucking despicable, and why fascists do not deserve peace or special consideration
Zionism predates the State of Israel, so not sure how that's possible. It's clear that you have your own definition of Zionism, so I guess we won't be able to agree on this one.
If that's what people think they should think harder, because there is no Zionism that doesnt end with ethnic cleansing. Zionism makes Jews *less safe* and we saw evidence of that last night.
They should stop being Zionists then because, like it or not, it's a form of fascism practiced by the state of Israel, a far-right fascist ethno-supremacist apartheid state engaged in ethnic cleansing, illegal occupation, and genocide.
zionism is not "wanting to be jewish and not die." zionism is explicitly a type of fascism. israel is explicitly a colonial ethnostate with the stated goal of eradicating all palestinians. zionism is incompatible with peace and humanism
i do know what zionism is. i am drawing simple conclusions from all available facts AND all zionist writing. i know more about this than you. zionism is a type of fascism and the entire world is aware of that now
Agree on the inevitability and the implication that it is very tragic, but the actions of Zionists (without the quotes) does more to dehumanize them than anything else could. Of course, that does not unburden everyone else from the responsibility of maintaining their own humanity, either.
ALERT! A person can be a Zionist, which at its core = love of Jewish homeland, and hate Netanyahu and Hamas- both responsible for horrible deaths on both sides. By generalizing “Zionist” you are selling hate and death. Lots here in US hate what Trump does. We are not all MAGAS. Same applies @Zionism
Lots of comments here dehumanizing Jews and Zionists. All reportable to BlueSky moderation, as I have done. I encourage all human beings here to do the same
Those two staff workers shouldn't have died. Instead, much more important people should have. But to talk about the dehumanization of zionists as though it's all that led to this? An entire people are getting slaughtered across the world and your conclusion is to pin this on antzionism in general?
The vast, vast majority of anti-Zionists do not actually speak in the way that dehumanizes people. If you think that anti-Zionism requires that, then that's on you.
I never said it did. But if your reaction to this murder is to bring up "zionists" with quotes, while an actual genocide is happening, then you shouldn't be surprised when people pick up on what you're implying.
Yes, and it is *extremely* easy to do that without being a gross racist bigot. And yet, basically every "anti-zionist, not antisemitic" person fails that simple test over and over.
Zionists who refuse to recognize Palestinean rights have in fact dehumanized themselves. Humanity is the capacity to see others the way you might see yourself. Whiteness is a similar separatist degradation of our collective humanity.
This was a horrible crime. You should not kill innocent people. That you should not kill innocent people is why I am now ashamed of the work that my namesake did speaking at an early Zionist Congress and working with Herzl. Zionism is now tied to genocide in two ways. Never again.
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Canada, UK, France spoke up on genocide/starvation of children in Gaza.
As punishment, Trump/Netanyahu IDF fired warning shots at us in the West Bank yesterday.