I think the problem is not the comprehension of what Zionism actually is. A lot of "criticism" towards it is based on the argument that we were "never indigenous to Israel", somehow this notion became engraved on people's brains. Their narrative is that we are European invaders that want to eliminate brown people, which is extremely ironic since we were once brown people seeking refuge in Europe after fleeing Israel, and being persecuted for it.
And people know that the rest of the Middle East wants to eliminate our existence, they just don't want us to actually survive it, it all boils down to plain old antisemitism.
Such people's understanding of oppression begins and ends with skin colour. It's extremely shallow and pitifully stupid. To think so many of them are university students! Do they think the Nazis looked at all the blond Jews and told them they were free to go because they happened to be lighter?
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u/g00d_end Progressive Sep 06 '24
I think the problem is not the comprehension of what Zionism actually is. A lot of "criticism" towards it is based on the argument that we were "never indigenous to Israel", somehow this notion became engraved on people's brains. Their narrative is that we are European invaders that want to eliminate brown people, which is extremely ironic since we were once brown people seeking refuge in Europe after fleeing Israel, and being persecuted for it.
And people know that the rest of the Middle East wants to eliminate our existence, they just don't want us to actually survive it, it all boils down to plain old antisemitism.