Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul, whose family was displaced by Israel, wrote about the ‘evils’ of Zionism, prompting a flurry of attacks from Tim Kaine, Abigail Spanberger, and other party colleagues.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I think it depends on what you view as Israel. Israel's current government system is Zionist, but a people's government is not equivalent to their people. So just as I can say that everyone in Gaza is not Hamas, I can say that every person in Israel isn't this Zionist regime. I couldn't care what they called the area on a map, whether it has 1 non Zionist country, 2 seperate non-zionist countries, or 12 small non- zionist countries, just so long as root out the Zionism / reform their governments into the acceptance of a people not based on their language, religion, color of their skin, sex, gender, etc. Doubt we'll see it most places until we start fixing economic issues everywhere though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    My point is that attacking someone as a "Zionist," now that Israel exists and has for a while, is kind of meaningless and dishonest at this point. Specifically because the label can mean a few very different things, you can ratchet someone into a viewpoint they don't actually hold by using the loosest possible definition when classifying them as Zionist and then using the most damning possible definition when attacking them for being a Zionist.

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