I know your average zionist doesn’t speak for the religion but it feels like they’ve been working overtime to equate their political ideology and national project to their religion. It’s a mental mindfuck that makes me question myself if I’M the one being an antisemite when I call out the IDF for butchering children or settlers for running pogroms on Palestinians. Fucking pissrael and it’s hasbara propaganda has now moved public opinion so much that taking a stance against bombing hospitals is akin to being a bigot.
FUCK
I keep remembering that the Uganda scheme was a thing, and I recognize that everything they’re doing to Arabs they would have done to people in Africa instead (because that’s where the proposed Israel was going to be set up); how hilarious in a dark and disturbing way that the primary reason it didn’t happen was that British settlers at the time rejected it because…they didn’t want to be colonized
L. L. Zamenhof during his Zionist phase at one point proposed a Jewish colony on the banks of the Mississippi River, believing that Jewish colonization of Palestine was a terrible idea that was bound to result in decades of violent interethnic conflict. Other Zionists pretty much universally mocked Zamenhof, and he soon enough fell in line and started arguing for — and, regrettably, materially supporting — colonization of then-Ottoman Palestine, despite literally previously recognizing exactly what was bound to happen if people continued down that path.
…And then within a few short years, Zamenhof just “lost faith in Zionism”, cut ties with the movement and became an opponent of it, and instead started arguing for his own philosophy of universal brotherhood, and promoting his famous constructed language Esperanto.
So yeah, it’s a small world: the same guy who’s best known for inventing a language to unite humanity, was at one point a Zionist who wanted to build a Jewish colony along the mighty Mississippi.
Actual justice would have been carving the Jewish state out of the Rhineland.
Or Austria. Hitler was an Austrian, and if you were going to pin the blame for the holocaust on one guy theres only so far up the chain you can go without Austria being a huge enabler of Hitler.