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The canard that cannot be trotted out enough

Submitted by casseia on Wed, 2009-11-18 00:33.

"Criticizing 'Zionism' or the actions of 'Zionists' is not necessarily racist- but people with anti-Jewish prejudices use the term 'Zionist' as a cover."

In other recent threads, Loose has been even more direct about his belief that anti-Zionism is almost ALWAYS a respectable veneer painted over base joooo-hatery.

So let's take a moment to recap. Zionism is movement for a Jewish national identity and ultimately for a state. To be a Zionist at this juncture in history means supporting the existence of a Jewish state in the former Palestine. It doesn't mean you have a third eyeball or torture puppies; it also doesn't refer only to people who were, like, totally psyched to see Israel roll into Gaza and crush those damn jihadis (the ones with the fireworks) using just about everything short of nukes on a civilian population. It means you believe that "Jewish" is a category of religious identity, but also NATIONAL identity. And in fact it means you're willing to cynically attempt to hide that national identity aspect BEHIND the religious one to avoid criticism and to imperil your co-religionists.

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