This is something I've wondered about but never really seen an official leftist position on, and it's gotten a lot more relevant with the ongoing Palestinian uprising. Also curious if there is any good reading out there on this subject.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    their descendents make up a lot of the Hasidic demographic that is often poor and often vehemently religious Zionist, which is in turn partially due to a policy on the part of the still mostly European and Ashkenazi political class placing them in settlements on the frontier as a buffer between Palestine and Israel proper.

    Makes it all the more infuriating that Zionists accuse anyone who opposes them of antisemitism. It doesn't get much more antisemitic than using Jews as ablative armor for your genocidal settler colonial project.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. That and the 'all Jews and Zionists, all Zionists are Jews" thing are prime bullshit. Senior politicians in Israel, including Bibi, have been happy to work with foreign fascist organizations to essentially force the hand of Jewish people by making wherever they live so dangerous that Israel starts to seem attractive by comparison. Reading up on how Mizrahi and Beta Israel Jews were and are treated by the Israeli state is really illuminating as to what Zionism really is as an ideology.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        1 year ago

        In case anyone doesn't know:

        Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.

        The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz, suspicions were first raised by an investigative journalist, Gal Gabbay, who interviewed more than 30 women from Ethiopia in an attempt to discover why birth rates in the community had fallen dramatically.

        One of the Ethiopian women who was interviewed is quoted as saying: “They [medical staff] told us they are inoculations. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.” It is alleged that some of the women were forced or coerced to take the drug while in transit camps in Ethiopia.

        https://archive.ph/K0y5i

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Zionism had to effect a dual colonialism: it had to seize, with violence, the land of Palestine, while also seizing the Jewish diaspora.

          Never heard it put like that before, damn.