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minus-squareAnarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoI suspect that the rebranding of Zionism to be ‘philosemitic’ started in the mid or late 1940s, shortly after the Shoah ceased. Then telling Jews to fuck off to Palestine was no longer seen as an act of hostility but of compassion instead, since they would supposedly be ‘safer’ there. It is similar to how some Zionists are trying to rebrand the expulsion of Gazans as an act of compassion. It’s a recent development. The fact of the matter is that Zionists have always been unafraid of associating with antisemites, a trend that continues today albeit more subtly. On the other hand, not only are there plenty of anti‐Zionist Jews, but thanks to the black sheep effect anti‐Zionist Jews may well be the harshest critics of Zionism, which is part of the reason why I made an effort to exclusively quote Jews when looking at people comparing the Zionist enterprise to the Third Reich.
I suspect that the rebranding of Zionism to be ‘philosemitic’ started in the mid or late 1940s, shortly after the Shoah ceased. Then telling Jews to fuck off to Palestine was no longer seen as an act of hostility but of compassion instead, since they would supposedly be ‘safer’ there. It is similar to how some Zionists are trying to rebrand the expulsion of Gazans as an act of compassion.
It’s a recent development. The fact of the matter is that Zionists have always been unafraid of associating with antisemites, a trend that continues today albeit more subtly. On the other hand, not only are there plenty of anti‐Zionist Jews, but thanks to the black sheep effect anti‐Zionist Jews may well be the harshest critics of Zionism, which is part of the reason why I made an effort to exclusively quote Jews when looking at people comparing the Zionist enterprise to the Third Reich.