UN rapporteur daring what others don't
UN rapporteur daring what others don't
UN rapporteur daring what others don't
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Zionism is a settler colonialism project that was able to really start with the support of British Imperialism. Zionism as a political movement started with Theodore Herzl in the 1880s as a 'modern' way to 'solve' the 'Jewish Question' of Europe. Western Nations supported this instead of instituting legal protections and refuge for Jewish people fleeing persecution.
Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.
No Ethnostate has a right to exist. The right way to tackle the rampant antisemitism in Europe would have been (and still is) to enshrine protections that guarantee civil rights to Jewish people and not limit the amount of refugees seeking asylum.
Herzl himself explicitly considered Zionism a Settler Colonialist project, Setter Colonialism is always violent. The difficulty in creating a democratic Jewish state in an area inhabited by people who are not Jewish, is that enough Palestinian people need to be 'Transferred' to have a demographic majority that is Jewish. Ben-Gurion explicitly rejected Secular Bi-national state solutions in favor of partition.
The existence of Hamas, and any armed resistance movement, is directly due to the decades of violence experienced daily under the permanent occupation, the Apartheid State, of Israel. It's impossible to understand their existence if you don't understand the lived experience and material conditions they are forced to live under. There is no such thing as a perfect victim when it comes to anti-Colonialist resistance, not for the Vietcong, the IRA, or the ANC either. Can you condemn the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the same way as the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto?
In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video
All great points and I don't intend to get into any of the Israel/Palestine portion, but was interested in the statement that no ethnistate has a right to exist? Since there are many defacto ethnostates around the world, like Japan and China as easy examples, are you saying that these countries do not have a right to "exist" by setting immigration and other state policy to remain mostly homogeneous?
If not, what authority exists to declare and further to enforce this non-right. Is this belief about ethnostates coming from a free movement viewpoint against national/international borders, or a viewpoint that any mono-ethnic state is inherently racist, or something else?
I am not attempting to be contrarian or anything, I am genuinely interested in the thought process. I don't think ethnostates are any kind of ideal or anything to aspire to, but also don't see how I can say any other country doesn't have a right to exist as the people of that country desire it to.
I agree that Japan and China certainly were in their imperial past, but not really now. Although to be clear, there is certainly still racism and xenophobia to various degrees. The main difference between a country that is largely a certain ethnicity and an Ethnostate is most fundamentally Supremacy. With that in mind, it's clear how Israel, Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Imperial Japan, and Chattel Slavery America would all stand out as Ethnostates
I am also a strong supporter of removing barriers to immigration globally and internationalism, but that's separate from whether a country is an Ethnostate or not. Supremacy and dehumanization on a state level are key to that. ISIS and many Evangelical Christians in America also desire their own respective Ethnostates. People have a right to exist, the supremacy and dehumanization of an Ethnostate is directly at odds with that by way of ethnic cleansing.
Supremacy is a better marker than say, Nationalism, because the nationalism of anti-colonialist movements are not the same as ones of colonialist movements.
And therefore they have the right to murder civilians?
No. You're choosing to be a monster.
Israel has thousands of Palestinian hostages, since before Oct 7 2023, and is not planning on releasing single one of them.
Up yours too, mate
Genocide is not self-defense.
Have they tried not being unrepentant assholes?
Oh boo hoo you fucking lil baby
Israeli settlers in Palestinian land are only doing self-defense, after all.
If Israel really wanted that land, they should buy it; That means, actually compensating the muslim people for giving up their homes and moving somewhere else; instead of bombing them to death.
And another shit tier response from a garbage person.