what happens if the demands are met?The protests might end, perhaps?
I feel like they're self-defeating their own chances by their proclivity to extensively use the term "zionist," given that many take the disparaging use of that word as code for antisemitic rhetoric.
I heard many of the leaders of this protest are Jewish. But the media portrays this as an anti Jewish protest. It's very misleading
I must ask, what is it about Palestine in particular which makes it such a consistent issue for the Left? I have been to trade union marches, with nothing whatsoever to do with Middle Eastern politics, and people were flying that flag. Why the obsession?Idk maybe the active genocide?
I must ask, what is it about Palestine in particular which makes it such a consistent issue for the Left? I have been to trade union marches, with nothing whatsoever to do with Middle Eastern politics, and people were flying that flag. Why the obsession?
Zionism refers to a right wing settler colonial political movement, not Jewish people in general. A lot of the people involved in these protests are themselves Jewish and have family in Israel, so they're saying this specifically TO indicate that they're not talking about all Israelis or all Jewish people. And yet you're taking it as the opposite.
What term would you prefer they use? Jewish? Israeli? What they're criticizing is Zionism specifically.
It touches on settler colonialism, militarism, racism, islamophobia, anti-left sentiment, it's an international struggle, and these are people that believe in international solidarity with all oppressed people in opposition to militarized capitalist and state power. Methods of oppression used by colonial powers and corporations to enforce colonization are almost always brought back home and the first people they're used on are the leftists and unionists.Has it succeeded yet?
TLDR: they believe in solidarity, oppose oppression of vulnerable groups, and believe these tactics of control will eventually be used on them if not defeated.
A lot of people take Zionism to just mean the right to a Jewish majority State.
Has it succeeded yet?
First, let's assume that you're right and that definition is unproblematic. What would be a better term? What other language gets across that they're taking issue with a specific right wing political movement, not Jewish people or even the concept of a Jewish homeland in general?I have no idea to be honest. I don't particularly disagree with using that term, I'm just saying that I think many do define it simply as a Jewish majority State. I didn't mean for it to look like I'm just pointing fingers. Just that there probably are well meaning people who don't initially take it as a negative term.
Second, how are you going to have a Jewish majority state in that specific location without using all those tactics I mentioned in my prior post?
"End all collaborations with zionist individuals"Probably names like (((this))).
I'd like to see what that list of individuals looks like