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emblem-man posted...

A lot of people take Zionism to just mean the right to a Jewish majority State.

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?

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? There was already a population there that is not Jewish. The students are using the word Zionist in the context of that reality and the history of what has in fact happened with the Zionist movement. Zionism used to have a lot of meanings, some spiritual, some cultural, some leftist, other meanings that didn't mean ethnic cleansing and apartheid, but that's what it means now.