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Zionism is a nationalist ideology and political movement, directed at the establishment and maintenance, in former Mandate Palestine, of a sovereign Jewish state with a Jewish character, to serve as a national homeland for the Jewish people, on territory perceived as their ancestral homeland.

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Trans people in western democracies need to accept, that a significant section of the population thinks that there should be no trans people, and that logically their lives are at risk, if they persist in being trans.

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Name a German politician who thinks that Sinti and Roma deserve their own state, and that Germany should supply them with arms. The territorial claims of the Jewish people are uniquely favoured in western political culture, and the Holocaust is the explanation.

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White Europeans, defined as those with pure European ancestry back to the Middle Ages, will indeed disappear, just as feared by the Great Replacement theory. In fact, so defined, they are probably extinct already, so there is no further reason for panic.

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White British people, in the sense of those with pure British ancestry over several generations, are probably already a minority. Ethnic replacement due to migration is a normal process, and denialism is not the appropriate response.

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Similar definitions are used in other countries, because official statistics typically record place of birth and citizenship, not ethnicity or ancestry - which is what most people see as the limits of the nation.

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The Jewish people is unique in its absolute rejection of existential criticism, which is logically a preference for a special status for the Jewish people, and by extension for the State of Israel. We can see the effects of that belief, in the attitudes of successive Israeli governments.

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All nationalist movements, including Zionism, believe that the rest of the world has moral obligations to their nation, notably the obligation to concede its territorial demands.

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Pride events have lost any sense of politics and ethics, if they ever had one, and have become addicted to corporate sponsorship. If the organisers had a conscience, they would organise a demonstration, rather than a corporate promotion.

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Although this is not intended as a *definition* of the radical right, it inevitably raises the question of what is meant by the term. In reality, the radical right is a coalition with possibly hundreds of components, and political science doesn't like long lists, so no-one compiles one.

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Democracy distributes power to the right, via right-wing voters voting. The duly elected right-wing politicians often turn out to be despots, oligarchs, and authoritarians.

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If you look at the central concerns of the radical feminist movement, in the real world, then it was above all a movement against rape, sexual assault and sexual oppression, and pornography, and never needed a grand theory anyway.

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Zionism is a political movement, and non-Jews may legitimately analyse its ideology, values, and tactics. Zionism is a nationalist movement, which makes territorial claims, and cannot be reduced to a simple desire to live in Palestine.

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The left - committed as they are to democracy - is generally unwilling to consider the ethical issues raised by successful right-wing campaigns against minorities. That is not a problem specific to the UK.

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The traditional 'centre-left' parties in western Europe have typically shifted well to the right. It is a long-term process: the mystery is why some people think that they are still as left-wing as 50, or even 100, years ago.

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