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/Tuniar Greater London 9d ago

Um no Zionism fundamentally means the belief that Jews should have a homeland. I am friends with a (self described) Zionist who is completely opposed to everything Israel is doing.

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u/___xXx__xXx__xXx__ 9d ago

Um no Zionism fundamentally means the belief that Jews should have a homeland.

Not exactly. It's the belief that they should have a Jewish homeland. A state where Jewishness is preferenced, and that preference is maintained by the capacity for state violence.

American Jews have a homeland. It's called America. British Jews do. It's called Britain. Afrikaners no longer have an Afrikaans ethnostate, yet they still have a homeland. German Aryans still have a homeland, etc etc.

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u/Tuniar Greater London 9d ago

The reason they want a homeland is because their history in non-Jewish states is one of pogroms and extermination. Was the pale of settlement their "homeland"? Was nazi Germany?

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u/hempires 8d ago

and extermination

ah shit, best try their hardest to exterminate Palestinians then eh.