always has been
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Nazi_f%C3%A4hrt_nach_Pal%C3%A4stina
In April 1933, von Mildenstein and Tuchler, along with their wives, embarked on a trip to Palestine. Tuchler aimed to demonstrate the development of a "national home" for Jews, seeking to convince von Mildenstein that Jewish emigration could be a solution to the Nazi's "Jewish question". This visit was part of a broader strategy by the Zionist Federation of Germany (ZVfD) to facilitate Jewish emigration through negotiations with the Nazi regime, which was exploring various options for removing Jews from Germany.
Ein Nazi fährt nach Palästina
A Nazi goes to Palestine
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I always said Israel has big “go back to where you came from” energy.
To paraphrase a Jewish friend from high school: The true victory over antisemitism will be when Jews can live anywhere without fear, not when there’s a place only for us.
I've heard so many times from the zionists that being anti zionist was anti semetic so I had to read this like 4 times before my brain would let me comprehend it correctly.
also from the wiki link:
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism:
From a previous comment of mine:
Zionism goes against the actual teachings of Judaism, it's very revisionist. Jewish opposition to Israel is as old as Zionism itself. Hasidic Jewish people, while small in number, are still the largest Anti-zionist group in Israel. Jewish people have been at the forefront of Anti-zionist activism for a long time, including Jewish Voice for Peace. Palestinians too of course.
Zionism uses Judaism as a shield, deflecting criticism against it's fascist actions as anti-semitic, which in-turn raises the amount of genuine anti-semitism experienced by Jewish people worldwide, due to that false conflation of Judaism and Zionism. That's why it's critical to detangle that false conflation.
Zionism comes from the same roots of other-izing Jewish people as seen in white supremacy, that's exactly why it's been supported by white supremacist since the beginning to present day. For white supremacists, Jewish people are inherently different and need to go back to 'where they came from' in the middle east. Christian Zionists, who far outnumber Jewish Zionists, want to trigger the end-times which will kill every 'nonbeliever' with the holy war.
Adi Callai, in his video Anti-Semitism, Weaponized, does a phenomenal analysis the history of antisemitism and how Zionism fits into that picture. He has another on the Gaza Ghetto Uprising and on Franz Fanon which are also just as relevant to the current situation in Palestine as well.
There is no need for Zionism in a world where Jewish people can live peacefully anywhere.
Global anti-Semitism is nothing but helpful to Zionism, so they encourage it. When you see them equating Zionism with Judaism during this genocide, don't think for a second they don't know it makes it more dangerous for Jews around the world.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
One justification for European Jews moving to Israel that I've heard is that they're victims of the Holocaust escaping Europe after the war. IIRC it's also one of the stated reasons Germany and the EU have unquestioning support for Israel.
I don't claim to know what's best for Holocaust victims, but is moving back to their homes in Europe not an option even after the war? Aren't they basically admitting that Europe is so antisimetic that even after Hitler was defeated it's still not safe for Jews to live there, and/or straight up admitting that they genuinely don't want Jews in Europe?
The service of that myth is part of why German support for Israel is so over the top, yes. Actual treatment of Holocaust survivors in Israel could be really shitty, with high rates of poverty and mistreatment by Zionist settlers. A Hebrew slur against diaspora Jews of the time, “sabonim”, was slang for “coward” and stemmed from the use of Holocaust victims’ body fat to make soap.
However, following the money gets to the real heart of the issue. West Germany retained an enormous amount of money and property that Nazi Germany had stolen from Holocaust victims. Monetary support for Israel and encouraging immigration let the state dodge liability for reparations to individuals. Read more here: https://jacobin.com/2020/11/postwar-west-germany-support-israel-whitewashing
Zionism is a movement which attempts to convince Jewish people that they are unsafe in their community, and can only be truly safe in the zionist ethnostate.
Antisemitism is a movement which attempts to make Jewish people unsafe in their community.
Zionism aligns in goals with antisemitism. They can both agree on making Jewish people feel unsafe enough to move to the zionist regime. In fact, in my country and at least a couple of others there's already been concrete evidence revealed of links between Zionist organizations and racist White Nationalist events, like shared speakers and copied rhetoric/memes as propaganda.
Other replies have already alluded to this, but it's important to state clearly.
This is not a phenomenon limited to Zionism, we see it with other separatist projects too, like the US Nation of Islam allowing the leader of the American Nazi Party to speak at some rallies, for example. ^[wiki^ ^summary]^,^[famous^ ^image]^
Yep, many identity movements exist in order to foster us vs them politics.
This is stupid