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.
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.
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.
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.