• dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    20 days ago

    You’re posting in a thread about a US politician blaming US media for attacks on US supporters of Israel, for US media correctly reporting that Israel is doing a genocide in Gaza. How does your comment relate to pro-Israel protests in the US? The “bring home the hostages” statements within the US are not anti-war; people who say “bring home the hostages” want Israel to annex Gaza.

    Secondly, I have been following news about protests happening in Israel. Anarchism in Israel is a small fringe movement, which does not make up “most of these protests”. The only protest that I have slight sympathy for in Israel is Mesarvot, because it’s teenagers who are being jailed for refusing to serve in the IOF and even then it’s like maybe a dozen members.

    The “bring home the hostages” protests in Israel are not anti-Zionist. Some of them have been described as “anti-war” or “anti-Netanyahu”, but never “anti-Zionist”. Anti-Netanyahu is a crafted designation which seeks to place all blame on Netanyahu to wash Zionism of its crimes against Palestinians. Anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel are not anti-Zionism. It’s exactly like when a corporation does a bunch of bad stuff and then they just replace the CEO to take all of the blame.

    There’s maybe like a total of 50 Israelis in all of Israel Occupied Territory who would describe themselves as “anti-Zionist”. Anti-Zionism is not a movement that exists within Israel.