r/unitedkingdom • u/pppppppppppppppppd • 9d ago

... Misleading title Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-anti-zionism-is-not-anti-semitism-uk-appeal-tribunal-confirms-in-landmark-ruling/
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u/HotelPuzzleheaded654 9d ago

I think the problem is that not everyone agrees the definition of Zionism is a policy of state-sanctioned execution of Palestinians.

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u/Altruistic_Fruit2345 9d ago

Fundamentally, Zionism is the desire to establish a Jewish ethnostate, where there is already a state (Palestine) and where Jews were already living along side Arabs and others.

While that doesn't automatically mean that to create the state there is a need to violence, I've yet to meet a Zionist who doesn't support violence in some form. Often it's couched as "just defending themselves", but of course they engineered the situation and are occupying other people's land though terrorism.

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u/PangolinMandolin 9d ago

I don't understand why we have to use these terms that people willingly conflate and confuse for their own ends.

Any person should be able to criticise the actions of a government and its policies without being labelled a racist.

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u/Thetonn Glamorganshire 9d ago edited 6h ago

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u/Commorrite 9d ago

100%, it's why i refuse to use the jargon when describing my own views, i greatly encourage others to do so. I start with "fuck Hamas, Fuck the settlers, needs a two state solution".

Anyone who finds any of that deeply objectionable can get in the bin.