• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    There’s more, but this is the full quote where he tries to equivocate the term first:
    “The term Zionist increasingly being tossed around as a pejorative, in spite of the fact that it simply means believing in the right of Jewish people, like all people, to determine their own future, is not normal. No one in Canada should ever be afraid to call themselves a Zionist. I am a Zionist."

    What a way to leave. I guess he’s trying to bookend his, “I am a feminist” speech.

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      I’m all for that definition, too. But Israel can’t self-determine that they’re going to commit a genocide on their neighbors because they want to settle on their land.

      As the PM facing down the 51st state threats I’d have thought he would want to expand on this statement a bit.

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      Zionism doesn’t mean that. What kind of twilight zone is he living in ?

      Jewish people are perfectly able to determine their own future without Zionism. Zionism is the repossession of inhabited land from people who are currently living on it and create an ethno state where the Jewish religion is in control of it to the detriment of everyone else, through the use of force and murder if need be.

      I’m sick and tired of this whitewashing of Zionism. It’s like when in 2015 some US groups were trying to redefine jihad as a personal struggle in life. No, it doesn’t mean that, it means death and murder through holy war.

      If you call yourself a Zionist, if you are a Zionist, you agree with the murder and mistreatment of people who are guilty of existing in a land that you decided to take for yourself in the name of your god Yahweh. I know you don’t like to say his name in vain, but I think it’s important to make the name very clear here, we wouldn’t want to be unclear about whom are you killing all these children for and to whom you will answer to if it turns out you are right about his existence. The worst of humanity is being committed by Zionists for Yahweh, specifically in his name, for Zionism.

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      Zionism was never possitive. It is a supermasist ideology that it’s people think jews has priority over any other ethenic group that lived in the area to own the whole land. The term zionism come from zion a specific hill in jerusalem.

      Early zionists leader admitted that there goal what occupation. Israel first prime minister said that after they gather army they would expand to whole palastine