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A Zionist is a person who believes that Israel has a right to exist. To be anti-Zionist in general means to hold that Jews are the only people in the world who must be denied the right to self-determination in their homeland. And so it is already anti-Semitic because it discriminates against Jews in relation to all other peoples. But if it might have been acceptable to be anti-Zionist in the late 19th century, it is no longer acceptable today. To be anti-Zionist today is to believe that a sovereign state, which gives a home to seven million Jews and two million other human beings, should be destroyed and Jewish citizens expelled or killed. To be anti-Zionist today is extremely anti-Semitic. If you then add that more than 90% of Jews are Zionists, to claim that one hates Zionists but not Jews is ridiculous. To lynch someone because they believe that Israel is a legitimate state as all others are is fascist behavior.
Nazis don't scare me. They exist, and in some form or another they've always existed. Every generation has its crazy. Hamas or the SS or the KKK. Big whatever.
What does greatly concern me right now is the amount of people who seem not to recognise these obvious villains for what they are. I'm worried about the way that fringe hateful lunacy has found a comfortable home in the middle, the mainstream.
Like if you got stabbed, that would really suck, but you would only have to emotionally process the trauma of having encountered one random nutjob with a knife. Yeah, there are scary people everywhere, it doesn't mean all people are scary.
But if you then stumbled out onto the street, clutching your bleeding wound, and tried waving someone down while yelling, "Help, they stabbed me!" And a street full of people just sort of stared, shrugged, or acted like maybe you were the bad guy here. THAT is how I know we're in the bad timeline. Something like that would change your entire understanding of humanity, and your capacity to trust other people.
That's how the racism we're dealing with feels right now. Ordinary people embrace it. The people you'd expect to be rushing to your side, they’re not.
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