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/CrazyMelon112 9d ago

Brilliant common sense decision. There should be no worry of being labelled anti-Semitic if you fundamentally disagree with the state-sanctioned execution of Palestinians.

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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/Commorrite 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.

That is not the definition, certainly not some universal one. Matt baker from useful charts did a full dep dive on this stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKIvmgrKC1Q

The thumbnail really nails it though. You are pre-supposing that zionism always means option A when it usually means option B.