Dear Zionists,

It’s not libel if it’s true.

#zionism #israel #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide

(Also, conflating Zionists – who may or may not be Jewish but very much are pro settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide – with Jews is, itself, antisemitic. Finally, please report and block @[email protected] – the latest account of the ban evading anonymous hasbara troll that replies to posts with Zionist memes before blocking the original poster.)

@aral for those who might be confused here: my mum is an enthusiastic #Zionist. Donates money, eats and repeats the propaganda.

She hasn’t the slightest Jewish connection as far as she knows. But she’s a fundamentalist RC who’s been got at by American Christian Zionists.

She repeats all the lies about ‘they were there first’ (“they” weren’t) etc also, no thinking what that might mean with regard to ‘settlement’. All discussion of Palestinians meets ‘what about Hamas?’

@JimmyB @aral They were there first has quite some irony in it when coming from Americans of European descent (which I guess many Christian Zionists are). Now I'm curious about your mom...
@goedelchen @aral the ‘we were there first’ and ‘our people have thousands of years of claim to the land’ is such BS… land claims based on ancestry which dispossess Palestinians who are definitely there now need to be seen for the fascism they are

@goedelchen @JimmyB @aral

-40-50% of Israel’s Jewish population can trace some ancestry back to Europe, including Ashkenazi Jews, Western European Jews, and those from the former Soviet Union.

Netanyahu was Benjamin Mileikowsky, Ben-Gurion was David Grün, Sharon was Ariel Scheinerman, and the list goes on.

@JimmyB @aral

This is my congresswoman, everytime I write her about her large donations from AIPAC, and weird Israel partiality.

@aral Looks like the account has already been suspended. Good.
@kittylyst It keeps getting suspended and then resurfaces on some other server. These people are shameless.

@aral This is not recent (you may well know it already) but Haaretz journalist Gideon Levi summarises it very well.

1. Many (not all) Israeli's see themselves as the Chosen people, so they can do whatever they want, and (2) they see themselves as victims. Add to this (3) systematic dehumanization of Palestinians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVKDb43xAMk

Gideon Levy: 3 Key Points About Israel

YouTube

@RolfBly
Wow, thank you for posting this.

@aral

@aral oh, I saw this one being an ass in someone else's comments last night. It looked like a purpose-made account for harassment so reported and blocked.

@emma @aral yep: registered 12 days ago and the only posts are propaganda. Also using the trick of deleting the @ of the one they reply to so they won't be notified, but others will see the attack.

(Edit: autocorrect)

@aral Notice how they use "jews" not zionists (wink,wink,nudge,nudge)
How was that "every accusation is a confession"??

@aral

The point is that anti-zionism doesn't say anything at all about 'jews' or about anybody else. It says an ideology is wrong, and destructive.

@aral Israel's own propaganda is antisemitic 🫣
@aral "Zionazi" - didn't know this one.
@aral Fascists always play the victim card. Always.

@aral

israel is a genocidal, apartheid state.

if you're offended by that statement, then you're either ignorant or in denial, and a genocide denier.

@aral me when standing In front a judge because of stealing:
"excuse me mr judge that's thief-libel."

@aral

Jews are not "uniquely murderous". Anyone can become a Nazi, and anyone can oppose Nazis.

@burnoutqueen @aral Of course those "defenses" rely on narrowing the definitions to the point of absurdity.

@burnoutqueen If you can show me where anyone said “Jews are uniquely murderous”, we can have this conversation (and I will condemn whoever said it as that’s an antisemitic statement).

Stating that Israel is a settler-colonial apartheid state that is commiting genocide, however, is something else entirely: it is the truth.

@burnoutqueen (The only ones conflating Zionists with Jews are Zionists, like the hasbara meme account that I screenshotted and shared.)
@aral im talking about the hasbara meme itself and how I think it's a strawman
@aral @burnoutqueen The screenshot about 'Genocide Libel' uses that exact phrase. The thing you shared.
@aral Oh look at the name, it's one of Santorum's alts.