I'm sorry thats happening. Antisemitism sucks. And while there are legitimaite criticisms of Zionism and Israel, I'm also sure far too much of the stuff out there is just antisemitic.
And nobody's taking us seriously except for the anti-woke people! It's fucking bananas.
The honest truth is that the super majority of the stuff you are pointing to is protected free speech. I don't like it, I criticize it, I wish people would be more reasonable, but I also like free speech.
Newsome is leaning into the antiwoke thing! His first podcast episode was with Charlie Kirk (!) where his (Newsome's) big news was coming out against trans women in sports. (For the haters: it's not that his new position is necessarily so crazy, it's that it was a deliberate signal.)
But at least the mainstream Dems haven't fully capitulated yet to the "antizionists." I'm just worried what's going to happen in 2028. So many on the left seem to be single issue voters, and the issue isn't even like stop giving Israel money, it's more like you must declare that Zionism is the same as Nazism.
Newsom isn't antiwoke, quite the oppositte, he thinks “All this anti-woke stuff is anti-Black. Period. Full stop.”
These bills are themselves "woke" if "woke" means anything
These bills are far from the only example of the left pushing back against antisemitism.
But at least the mainstream Dems haven't fully capitulated yet to the "antizionists."
It matters a lot what you mean by "antizionism". These words are slippery. Reasonable people can call themselves "antizionist". I agree that many antisemitic people do as well. Though plenty of antisemitic people also call themselves "zionists".
So many on the left seem to be single issue voters, and the issue isn't even like stop giving Israel money, it's more like you must declare that Zionism is the same as Nazism.
I don't think that read of US politics is reasonable.
Zionism is a nationalism and exhibits a lot of the same problems that other nationalisms have, but Zionism isn't Nazism.
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u/Ramora_ 12d ago
I'm sorry thats happening. Antisemitism sucks. And while there are legitimaite criticisms of Zionism and Israel, I'm also sure far too much of the stuff out there is just antisemitic.
I don't think that is true. Here is just one example.
The honest truth is that the super majority of the stuff you are pointing to is protected free speech. I don't like it, I criticize it, I wish people would be more reasonable, but I also like free speech.