For decades, Joe Biden has proudly declared that he is a Zionist, and he has repeated that claim since Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel. But for the student anti-war protests gripping the US, the words “Zionist” and “Zionism” have become a watchword – pejorative and emblematic of the violent state policies driving the war on Gaza.
On social media and in the streets, critics no longer call out supporters of the state of Israel as “pro-Israel”: they call them Zionist. Some university encampments have posted signs saying: “Zionists not allowed.”
Student protesters say that their criticisms of Zionism are rooted in the state of Israel’s displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Pro-Israel activists have responded by defending the term. “If the last six months on campus have taught us anything, it is that a large and vocal population of the Columbia community does not understand the meaning of Zionism,” a group of more than 500 Columbia University students recently wrote. “We are proud to be Zionists.”
Says the guy that’s was banned for being an antisemite.
I’m not banned.
Dude… check the mod logs and stop lying.
Did you know banned users cannot post?
Removed by mod
Removed by mod
I’m not allowed to respond to you here, but at least it’ll still show in deleted comments.
Wow you must be very proud of that deleted comment.
Surely it didn’t say something about deleted comments right?
Nope. It was about how you were banned for being an antisemite. And, speaking of removed comments….
Reporting my comments to have them removed doesn’t make what I’m saying untrue.
Being deemed an antisemite and banned by a Mod in a Lemmy community isn’t the powerful argument you seem to think it is.
Considering that people are being accused of being antisemite if they demonstrate against the murder of children (an accusation which, curiously, implies that murdering children is a Jewish thing to do, making that accusation itself being the true antisemitism), that ban probably says a lot more about said Mod than about the person banned.
Being deemed antisemite by a mod on the most socialist leaning pro-Palestine platform on the internet is though.
But then again, Marx was an antisemite as well, so- that’s a pretty well-fitting shoe.
I suggest you go read the rules about who can be a Mod in Lemmy: there are none.
It’s prefectly possibly for a Lemmy Mod of a specific community to be a pro-Zionism extreme racist since the only qualification they need to be a Mod is having created that community or asked for and been given mod status from an existing Mod.
Being a Mod requires no higher moral anything and a Mod’s opinion is morally no better or worse than anybody else’s.
That Appeal to Authority Falacy of your is even ridiculous in your choice of Authority.
ROFL…. If that’s what keeps the dissonance away from ’your cognizance…. Float that boat!
Someboyd who uses Appeal To Authority falacies as “arguments” and keeps on trying to justify it, passing judgment on other people’s cognizance… Oh, the irony!