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From Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster 1:37 AM · Oct 20, 2025 on the Site That Shall Not Be Named (cdn.theblower.au)
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From Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster 1:37 AM · Oct 20, 2025 on the Site That Shall Not Be Named.@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #Judaism #Zionism

I'm Jewish. Many of my closest friends are Jewish. I love them all. My whole family is Jewish, I love them all too. My community is Jewish. Love them all. I love Judaism. I host shabbat dinners, celebrate Jewish holidays, sing Jewish prayers, study Torah & Talmud, and love Jewish culture, history and expression. But I'm not a Zionist. Zionism was an ideology that said, let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 97%+ non-Jewish. That's why, when Zionists bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't jewish. That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" -- no Arabs allowed. That's why, in the 1930s, Zionists expelled Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish companies and business. Jews only! https://jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2007.36.2.25
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@bruce Various Zionist lobbies have such a stranglehold on Australian media that it's impossible to know, but the impression we get from the mainstream is that the overwhelming majority of Jewish Australians enthusiastically support Israel's genocide. The source text of the image below is from the US, four decades ago:web.archive.org/web/2017122821By all reports, the situation in Australia today is worse.I've never seen credible polling of Australia's Jewish communities. What they truly feel about Zionism and Israel, nobody knows. Earlier this month, Sarah Schwartz gave us some idea:theguardian.com/commentisfree/@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #AusPol #Judaism #Zionism

By Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht I am the unknown Jew. Just as there are monuments to the unknown soldier and the unknown political prisoner, there should be a monument to the unknown Jew. We are Jews who oppose Zionism, who deplore Israeli oppression and aggression, who fear that Judaism may not survive Israel. We are probably a majority of Jews, but no one knows this because we have been effectively intimidated and suppressed by the Zionist minority.

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