• HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    Zionists are people who support the ethnic state that is Israel. A large portion of Zionists are Christian Evangelicals from the US.

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      22 hours ago

      It’s worth pointing out that the reasons they support Israel as an ethnostate are largely two-fold

      1. They believe that a restored Jewish state in Palestine is a sign of Jesus’s return, meaning they’ll get raptured soon.

      2. They want Jewish people out of “their” country.

      Zionism has a long history of antisemitism despite the apparent contradiction.

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        22 hours ago

        Exactly, many Nazis also find the idea of sending jews to the desert to be a preferable way of “dealing” with them. Fascists supporting fascists I suppose.

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        I dont give two shites about “antisemitism”. The word has become meaningless. It just means “whatever the zionists want”.

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          Zionists really don’t like this but it is true. By calling everyone who doesn’t agree with you an “antisemite” to strike fear and/or silence them, it is bleaching the word and taking away its meaning and less people will recognize or respect the word for its real meaning. It’s not good.

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      22 hours ago

      The vast majority of Zionists are Christian Evangelicals from the US.

      That’s not true; Europe has pretty sizeable numbers too, and supposed liberal Zionists exist all over the West in large numbers. Screw them all, but let’s not pretend Zionists only have sway with one religious group.