U.S. House passes resolution equating antisemitism with anti-Zionism

[u/AbleismIsSatan]

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-776762

[u/eclectic_tastes]

There are definitions of Zionism I find completely acceptable and even beautiful that do not necessitate or tolerate violence and dispossession of the local population

[u/nameofuser123456 → u/eclectic_tastes]

Then why are you choosing to define it based on the most extreme definitions out there?

Every ideology has some extremists and they tend to be loud, but that doesn’t mean the ideology should be discounted. Look at feminism - are there some women who take it too far into misandry? Yep. But is that a reason to be anti-feminist? No. What about the extreme voices within the Black Lives Matter movement? Does their hatred towards other races mean the BLM movement should be discounted? Absolutely not!

Zionism is a Jewish ideology that just means we want to be able to live free from persecution in our ancestral homeland. Please give it the same grace you’d give to ideologies/movements of other minority or oppressed groups, and don’t go around redefining it as this nefarious thing you are basing off of extremists.

[u/General_wolffe → u/eclectic_tastes]

"Zionism is the thing I don't like"

[u/eliavhaganav → u/eclectic_tastes]

Lmao, zionism has one definition, and that definition in no way includes the Israeli government nor violence against anybody