I have heard that it is anti semetic to "deny israel has a right to exist"

Which makes me curious. Is it a generally accepted premise either in law or just by people that countries have "rights"?

I think of rights as something people have.

If countries do have rights, is exisiting one of them?

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    1 year ago

    iirc some people used to say some kind of kurdistan has the right to exist but nato-cool doesn't care about them anymore so i haven't heard about rojava or anything for several years

    none of the more established nation-states act like they're under existential threat as the zionists do, so it doesn't really come up. I think the primary purpose of the argument is to whitewash israel's atrocities and it doesn't have much to say about geopolitics.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah, I think you're right. I'm surprised we don't hear East Turkestan has a right to exist, now that I think about it