I know Israel is a right wing government run by fascists. I sort of avoided the drama around the Rashida thing, but I just gotta know. Can someone give me the rundown?

I literally spent the last five or ten minutes looking it up online, but there is an astounding amount of bad sources being cited or people that are straight up pro Israel being misleading...

This isn't a bit, I'm just ridiculously uninformed on the issue. I'm sure it was brought up on the podcast, but I haven't listened in a while.

Edit: thanks y'all, I learned a lot. I knew what I was seeing was crap

  • culpritus [any]
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    1 year ago

    I recall seeing someone mention a version of the phrase appears in some of the founding documents of the ethnostate.

    Here's what I found:

    The context and the intent is key. The founding charter of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party trolls: “Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.” [The 1977 election manifesto of the right-wing Israeli Likud party]

    According to American historian Robin D. G. Kelley, the "odious" phrase "began as a Zionist slogan signifying the boundaries of Eretz Israel." Zionism is the movement to support the establishment of a homeland for Jewish people in Israel.