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At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said.

Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows.

A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal their anti-Israel attire and thwart any attempt to stop them ahead of time.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago

Who elected you to speak on behalf of Jews?

This survey shows a majority of American Jews are Zionists. The percentage of Zionists is much higher among Jews living in Israel. That gives you a solid majority for Zionism among Jews.

Mods won’t like this post and delete it, just like the one you answered to. They might even ban me.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

That survey says the opposite of what you think it does. Zionism now is essentially the Jewish version of white supremacy. It's radical. It's dangerous.

But when the survey you link to states quite clearly:

"And most Jewish adults took the position that God “did not literally give” the land of Israel to the Jewish people (42%) or said they do not believe in God or a higher power at all (24%)."

That's not Zionism as currently defined.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago

Funny how you cite a source that doesn't even contain the word "Zionist", "Zionism", "Zion" anything.

If you actually have a look at the data you can see there's very significant chunks that don't have an issue with BDS, that don't think that Netanyahu is in any way serious about peace. Those are not the frothing-at-the-mouth Kahanites that people on the US left often mean when they say "Zionist". Yitzhak Rabin was a Zionist. Murdered by a Zionist.

It's more complicated than that and may I remind y'all that Hamas specifically targeted Hippie Kibutzim during their attack, the same kind of people who go into the West Bank during olive harvest so that settlers have a harder time shooting Palestinians, which is one of the reasons why the Israeli government doesn't give a rat's arse about the hostages.

The biggest enemies of the Zionist project, currently, is the type of people running the Israeli government. Because if you're out for a place for Jews to call home, to live in peace and prosperity, antagonising the fuck out of everyone is not the way to go about it. Traitors to the movement, the lot of them.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 7 points 12 hours ago

Seriously, we should stop listening to americans, brits and germans on this. The literal rest of the world is feeling nauseous but they are still repeating propaganda while people are being massacred.

Of course this have to do with the rise of ultranationalism. Germany for the germans, make america great again, Brexit. Isreal for the jews.

Let’s embrace Palestinian ultranationalist Islamist blood and soil ideology and demand ethnic cleansing of the Jews back to Europe instead.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 6 points 10 hours ago

what? They are parked in a ghetto. They just want their land back. Are the native americans nazis for wanting self-governance? Were they wrong for wanting scalps white men. No they were not.

Were the Irish in the wrong for the homerule struggle? No of course not. The brits came and stole their land.

Nobody want to deport israelis. White people still live in south africa as far as i know. They sure whine a lot but nobody got deported did they?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

It's also not an either/or situation. It's not either the Palestinians have the land or the Israelis have the land.

The land can be shared. So can the government. And that government can be 100% secular.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 2 points 9 hours ago

Throw bibi and biden in jail and then we can talk about it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I think we can talk about it regardless of where they are. And we should talk about it. And the more people that talk about it, the closer we get to realizing it. It will, of course, take a critical mass of people in Israel to agree, but that's exactly why you keep talking about it.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 2 points 9 hours ago

No. War crimers should be judged before we can talk about peace.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

That's ludicrous. You expect me to just shut my mouth about my idea of a peaceful future just because bad things are happening now? Fuck no.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 2 points 9 hours ago

Huh no I expect you to act according to a very simple principle of justice. Bombing hospitals is against international laws and the responsible should pay. Otherwise everything you say is just demonstrative.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Okay, so let's say this war ends, there is no more genocide, Israelis and Palestinians form a single democratic state and become a model of peace for the region- but Netanyahu and Biden are never tried for war crimes.

It sounds like that would not be acceptable to you.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 1 points 9 hours ago

To me it is. To the people on the ground who lost half of their family? No fucking way. You know the slogan right. No justice no peace.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

If that's acceptable to you, why can't it be discussed?

Why should this topic be silenced?

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 1 points 8 hours ago

Oh come on of course it can be discussed. You can discuss it all you want. It was just a figure of speech.

What I'm saying is that it's just talk. Cheap talks.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Well maybe instead of criticizing random Lemmy users hoping for a better future of such cheap talk, you contact more prominent people and groups and criticize them for it instead.

I would start with the Arab Center in Washington, DC - https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/shifting-the-paradigm-the-one-state-solution-as-a-path-to-peace/

Then there's John Rees, founder of the Stop War Coalition - https://www.counterfire.org/article/palestine-the-only-solution-is-now-the-one-state-solution/

And then, of course, there's the Nelson Mandela Foundation - https://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/the-time-for-action-is-now

MintPress founder and director and Palestinian journalist Mnard Adley discussed it. You'll want to get in touch with her - https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/what-about-the-one-state-solution-with-an-equal-vote-for-every-palestinian-and-israeli

Let me know when you're done contacting all of them with what you're criticizing me for and I'll give you more names of people and organizations far more influential than me that you can contact over this.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 1 points 8 hours ago

Cool, thanks <3

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

America and Israel. The only two countries in the world with Jews.

FACT.

[-] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Together they contain more than 80% of Jews.

Recent Jewish population dynamics are characterized by continued steady increase in Israeli Jewry and flat or declining numbers in other countries (the diaspora)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I see. So based on your "evidence," 60% of the percentage of the 80% of Jews that live in America in that combined 80% total of Israel and the U.S. are "Zionists" (even though that's not what your poll said).

This is what the poll said:

Among U.S. Jews overall, 58% say they are very or somewhat emotionally attached to Israel,

"Somewhat emotionally attached to Israel" is not Zionism by any stretch of the imagination.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 5 points 12 hours ago

Well a lot of german were nazis.

The highest result for the NSDAP in elections was 43%.

Comparing Jews to Nazis is Antisemitic.

[-] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

They were comparing Jews to Germans, not Nazis; they were comparing Zionists to Nazis.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

No. Comparing Zionists to Nazis is not antisemitic. I am a Jew and not a Zionist. Many Zionists are Christians. Zionist does not equal Jew or vice versa.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 5 points 11 hours ago

Who's talking about jews? I thought Israel was an open society with equal rights for all people.

Anyway they're bombing civilians with white phosphorus. Fuck off. Watch yourself in the mirror real hard.

[-] yankaremonsters@leminal.space 3 points 10 hours ago

They were still the first party. My point is that you cannot equate jews and israel otherwise we can stab the first jew since they support using white phosphorus on civilians

Equating a political entity with an ethnicity is the rationale for collective punishment.

Collective punishment which you obviously support.

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