• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Leftists only love failed independence movements. Jews worked and fought for centuries before succeeding in building an independent homeland. As soon as they succeeded, it became the “wrong” thing.

    I’m not afraid to say:

    Free Palestine

    Free Tibet

    Free First Nations

    Free Kurdistan

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      16 hours ago

      How about when they started genociding it became the wrong thing?

      Say that. Say “genocide” instead of “succeed” if you love facts so much.

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      10 hours ago

      Israel was never a movement for freedom, from the start it was a far right enthnonationalist colonial project.

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        7 hours ago

        Not exactly. Zionism was a labor-communist movement with an emphasis on fairly purchasing land from absent landlords, communal ownership, multiculturalism, agriculture, and independence for the native peoples of the region.

        I know it goes against the popular narrative these days, but the nice thing about history is that it never changes. I’m happy to share primary sources or mainstream, independent scholarship on any of these points if you have followup questions on any of these points.

        For now, here is a poster from 1900 to illustrate the point:

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          7 hours ago

          I feel like we’re talking about two very different things with the same name.

          While that form of zionism may have existed at one point, it is completely irrelevant today, as the zionism seen in Israel is very much far right and enthnonationalist.

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            Yeah Zionism had a lot of different opinions on how and where to do it before the Holocaust gave the movement the political capital it needed to actually happen. Funny how often these “iT gOeS aGaiNsT the NaRraTivE” types actually just don’t know or deliberately ignore the complete context.

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          13 minutes ago

          “Labor-Zionism” is reactionary and ethnonationalist, they perpetuated the Nakba were willing to work with the far right as long as they were Jewish (putting ethnic politics above workers unity). IMO they should be seen like how we see national Socialism and national Bolshevism.

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      10 hours ago

      If they hadn’t immediately started a project of displacing the people who had been there the last 2,000 years then you might have a point. But no they went straight to Terrorism, and we cheered.

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      10 hours ago

      sry friend, the free tibet part’ll get you banned here

      everyone knows, that tibet isn’t a country, but actually belongs to glourios china, which is, even tho it has one of the highest billionair density in the world, a true socialist utopia… also uigurs are a western lie