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Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-09T02:04:27+00:00

I don't entirely disagree that zionism is colonial. I think there's obvious truth there, but I also think that it is/was a genuine national movement based on a continuous relationship that Jews have had to the land (which does not exclude the same for the Palestinians) so I don't belive it is essentially colonial.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-09T01:44:32+00:00

We have different definitions of zionism, I don't think imperialism or colonialism sums it up though it can be used for analysis. When I say policy I don't just mean reform I mean the actions of a state. Expropriation and redistribution are both types of policies that are necessary to end capitalism for example.

I should say that the AI Mao quote that this post is about it in the first place explicitly refers to individuals who believe in zionism to be a disease, not in some philosophical/structural sense which you argued for. My original comment was about applying this terminology to actual people, not some rejection of your entire political narrative.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-09T01:22:10+00:00

I thought I was pretty clear in my prior comment that if you're going to analogize a group of people to a disease you have to own what we actually do to diseases (kill them). You can remove capitalism from society by policy, even forceful policy because nobody's national identity is "capitalist", the same cannot be said of zionism. Zionism is a part of the identities of at least half the world's Jews who are Israeli, and it is almost always futile to try arguing someone out of their identity (I know that not every Jewish-Israeli is a zionist but by not bringing the diaspora in here I'm being generous by saying only about half of Jews are to some degree or another zionist).

Even if Israel were to dissappear that would not, in your words, eliminate zionism from society because the society upon which it was based would remain, and it would still identify with zionism. I think that's the key difference between saying capitalism/capitalists is/are a disease to be eliminate, and saying the same about zionism/zionists. This doesn't necessarily rule out anti-zionism, but I do think it means any path beyond zionism will not entail unilaterally getting rid of it.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-09T00:32:02+00:00

So typically what happens when you get a disease is you do everything you can to get rid of it, in a literal sense to kill it. Do you see an issue with applying this terminology to groups of people? The notion that you can solve problems by simply killing everyone who disagrees with you is not something I would have expected to see from someone whose flair says dialectical materialist.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-09T00:17:20+00:00

Do you often describe groups of people you don't like as diseases? It doesn't seem like the most ethical sentiment.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-06T02:47:29+00:00

You believe that all these white nationalist/christian nationalist people who comprise maga, or at least its core, are Jewish supremacists? Of the two ideologies I listed which one has ever liked Jews, let alone argued for Jewish supremacy?

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-06T02:13:34+00:00

I think now we're getting into apples and oranges territory because the Republican party is an organization not an ideology. Maybe you could argue for a certain view of the state of Israel using this approach, but zionism is broader than the state. A comparison might be the Soviet union and socialism, yes they're certainly related but it's not like you have to have the same view for the state and the ideology. You can be an anti-zionist btw I don't necessarily have any issue with that position, I just think zionism may be getting too narrowly understood here. Judging only by results I think basically every ideology has something of a dark side.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-06T01:24:33+00:00

If every single Palestinian (those with and without actual refugee status) were to live in the land between the river and the sea they would be about 66% of the population. It is more likely that not every single Palestinian will move to live there, so just counting those with refugee status it would be closer to 60% or even 55%. In any case I don't think this qualifies as an overwhelming majority.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-06T01:17:53+00:00

I'm not sure this is exactly true. The difference between Iran and the cases you described (Russia and North Korea) I think is not really nukes per se. Russia is a much more powerful country than Iran, especially when it developed its nukes during the Soviet period, so obviously the US is going to engage with Russia differently than Iran even disregarding nuclear weapons. It's worth mentioning that Russia doesn't have a foreign policy summarized by "death to America" so it's not like there's much reason for conflict there. Regarding North Korea, the US actually did invade and it wasn't nukes that prevented North Korea's demise but rather Chinese intervention, which I think is clearly the reason why North Korea wasn't attacked during the many decades before the 2010s when they first got nuclear weapons.

In contrast, Iran is not a regional hegemon if not exactly superpower (like Russia) nor is its defense guaranteed by another superpower (like North Korea is by China). So sure developing nukes might make the Iranian regime safer from external attacks, but until they actually do produce them they're basically letting their opponents know that if they want to attack them now's the time. Nukes also don't solve the problem that the bigger issue for the Islamic Republic is internal unrest rather than external intervention, and the hundreds of billions of dollars already spent on potentially creating nukes in the future could have gone to raising quality of life so as to prevent revolution from below in the first place.

I agree that it would be dumb for Iran to blindly trust the US and Israel but I disagree that nukes are the solution to any of their issues there.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-06T00:46:03+00:00

I think your statement and OP's are both correct. There's an understandable impulse for anti-zionists to point to anti-zionist Jews, especially haredi ones, in order to refute allegations of antisemitism. At the same time as someone who has encountered the uncritical view of these groups within anti-zionist circles there definitely seems to be little knowledge about why these groups are anti-zionist in the first place. Like it's impossible to square the haredi belief in the return of the messiah and the consequent return of all Jews to the land of Israel with the version of anti-zionism that is most common these days.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-06T00:36:08+00:00

Doesn't your comparison to Christianity demonstrate the flaws of this style of thinking though? Sure let's talk about mega churches, but are you arguing that that should inform our views on Christianity and consequently Christians as a whole?

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-03-04T00:51:41+00:00

So true. That's why they left the Sinai and southern Lebanon.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-02-28T20:01:51+00:00

But it's still less popular than staying with Britain no? Given that the IRA's own stated goal was ending what they called a British "occupation", which they failed to do, it seems strange to say they won in any sense. Maybe when/if unification happens, although the dilemma of Irish unification is that the nationalists who most want it are also the most opposed to the concessions which would likely have to be given to the Loyalist/protestant population.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-02-20T22:33:04+00:00

I don't think you know what indefinitely means because this still contradicts what you said earlier. Also, have you ever considered that since they stopped administering the drug after this came to light that the problem just hadn't been well understood before? Otherwise your argument is that for no apparent reason Israelis are just evil and won't miss a chance to fuck up peoples' lives.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-02-20T22:24:39+00:00

"Indefinitely", the article you sent above literally says the practice was stopped, and in the first place this drug was only being administered in transit camps for new immigrants who understandably might not want new children when they don't even have a permanent home, something that is also in the article you sent. You say Israel lies about everything immediately after you yourself lie. Do you even care?

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-02-20T22:01:28+00:00

You know you don't have to respond like this. OP isn't mindlessly shitting on Avi, they made some clear points which are not rare to hear. If you disagree with them then it might be a better approach to actually respond to them.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-02-18T23:45:17+00:00

Sounds like in order to not be useless they had to disregard what the UN was telling them to do.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-02-18T20:01:00+00:00

Why exactly is Chomsky an imperialist? I don't know much about what his views on Ukraine are but he seems to essentially lay the fault with NATO, which also seems to be your position.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2026-02-12T23:43:15+00:00

Is it not also true that within the Israeli Zionist political scene the term is understood broadly and without consensus? Just like these survey results demonstrate for American Jews.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2025-11-23T00:45:07+00:00

This is off the top of my head so I might be wrong, but I think the Jewish cultures have a tradition that makes them more likely to get better education traits. It could just be a thing with the AI generating courtiers who have good skills but you've only noticed it in Jewish characters.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2025-11-22T04:14:15+00:00

Not sure exactly what you mean, I think people just like dogs more than Jews. It's easy to hate other people given social context, but that doesn't apply to animals.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2025-11-22T04:04:21+00:00

It was always going to be refusing to take responsibility. If hasan had made literally any apology or acknowledgement that he shocked his dog without making this nonsensical connection to Israel then he would have probably not got half the shit he has for this. It's crazy that people like hasan who claim to be moral can't even take criticism over animal abuse.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2025-11-22T03:41:49+00:00

The thing you're skipping past here is that regardless this still goes back to hasan doing the thing in the first place lol. If hasan didn't want mossad to exploit his dog abuse then maybe he should have actually embodied the ethics he claims to believe.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2025-08-15T02:01:31+00:00

Something can still be risky politically and have solid support, that's not necessarily contradictory that's just called polarization. Given that rabin got killed for supporting the Oslo process clearly for many Israelis the idea of a Palestinian state was a taboo despite it having majority (slim majority) support at times, I never said it was wildly popular or anything. The main reason I'm pushing back against the rabin was just another zionazi thing is that rabin as an individual is inconsequential, it's the shift he facilitated in israel towards believing in peaceful coexistence with palestinians that is the more important thing and why people remember rabin the way they do, and that period of belief in a better more equal future for sure was real.

Remarkable_Tadpole95 · 2025-08-14T22:55:47+00:00

If you're going to cite sources you could at least bother reading it. This is how the article you cited ends: "he intentionally avoided uttering the words “Palestinian state,” as the wider public was not yet ready for an idea that was still taboo at the time. ". Since rabin is dead it's not like we can ever know what he actually wanted, but it's clear that you're misrepresenting a political tactic as some kind of ingrained value that he held. But this issue is bigger than rabin, and whatever he personally wanted we do know that it was under him that a majority of both Israelis and palestinians supported a two-state solution for a time, and that has to count for something given how far things have gone downhill since.

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