wristwatchesareneat asked: Sorry, it was a stupidly broad question. I guess I was curious, as people are often quick to call anti-Zionism anti-Semitism, and it's often argued that Zionism as a principle merely supports the creation of a safe haven away from the failed integration that Jews experience in other societies. I suppose I'm asking whether or not you think that Zionism inherently implies or requires negative states of affairs (ie Palestine)? Is it that it is merely another brand of nationalism?
Well there is something called cultural-zionism which is about preserving Jewish culture, outside of the need for Jewish nationalism, and I’m completely supportive of that! I would even be supportive of giving one of the states here in the U.S. to Israel, since we’re so fond of giving them billions of dollars (despite being in a financial crisis) & since the two countries are such tight allies.
For obvious reasons, the United States wants Israel in the middle east because it serves the U.S.’s own imperial interests. But, I think nationalism is pretty universally problematic, but particularly in cases of colonization, and ethnically based segregation, sociocide, apartheid and (arguably) genocide. And so an Israel that needs to destroy & eliminate the indigenous population in a Middle Eastern country in order to survive or in order to thrive or for any reason at all, is not an Israel I could never support.
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