‘Self-defence’ has vastly different meanings for the colonised and the coloniser.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21423185

[important article - has information on far-right Zionist thugs in Canada and US]

Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer.

14 Oct 2024

  • Sundial@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It definitely was. I’m just choosing to not buy into it. The non-Zionist Jews around the world deserve better than to be associated with them.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      And the anti-Zionist Jews who are out protesting with us deserve as much or more, because they’re really sticking their necks out.

      • Sundial@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        They definitely do. It’s for their sake and all the other Jews that I choose not to consider Zionists as Jews.

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I don’t think no true Scotsman is a good position to take. I can’t say that no real Jew would be a Zionist any more than I can say no real German would be a Nazi. It creates space for an “it can’t happen here” fantasy, which is dangerous.

          • Sundial@lemm.ee
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            2 months ago

            I’m not seeing it that way. The no true Scotsman fallacy is more if you create an arbitrary set of rules to differentiate 2 groups that should be the same. These Zionists are going hard against the teaching of Moses and the Jewish faith in general. It’s pretty clear they are not actual Jews.

            • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Oh. People aren’t going to know that by Jew you mean believer in Judaism unless you qualify it. Most Jews aren’t even religious.

              • Sundial@lemm.ee
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                2 months ago

                Yeah that’s fair. I tend to forget that a lot of people consider Jew an ethnicity as well as a religion. Your point makes sense in that light.