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[-] theparadox@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

But who has the right to redefine the word 'Zionism' when it's the word used by this group of people to define their effort to save themselves?

Anti-Zionists are at best ignorant of the importance of democracy and at worst, antisemitic. Pick a new word.

The people who protect the leadership of Israel from any consequences regardless of how they behave and provide them the tools to do whatever they deem necessary, including blatant ethnic cleansing and genocide, call themselves Zionist. It might not be fair to redefine a word, but those commiting genocide and those defending and enabling genocide, use it for themselves. Opposition meets them where they stand. The burden should not be on those opposing the genocide, what you call tragedy, to come up with a new word. You are redefining anti-new-Zionism as Anti-Semitism. Just as unhelpful as redefining Zionism. How about we work to stop the genocide and then focus on the definition of Zionism later?

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