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  • he didnt win

    Feels like he got to sieze the definition, do all his atrocities.

    antisemitism is still a big problem

    To you, maybe. To zionists, that’s a feature!

    jews are still not safe anywhere

    Nobody is, dear. Safety does not grow in walled gardens, and we firebomb the commons pretty regularly.

    which version was not about explicitly being a fucking monster

    I forget their main advocates or if they were calked specific things, most of what i know about this was chatting with an old historian and an article i read a billion years ago, but there really were different ideas of it as recently as the thirties, like joining already extant communities somewhere. They were, like any 19th century european idea, never completely unproblematic, but some of them tried and at least read as genuinely well intentioned, and there was a lot of schismy bitterness as the meaning of thr word crystalized around hertzel’s thing. Now of course it’s one of tge most vile words in English, but he did not invent it. Mightve been the one who imported it to english.





  • Well, 19th century zionism was a different thing. Edit: or rather, a more diverse collection if things. Optionally but not necessarily evil. Sometimes it was as benign as ‘lets all go somewhere and join a community together ajd bring the ways that we’re cool to that community and even if they dont totally like us, they can’t hate us more than these assholes’.

    So it is fair to say that the idea of zionism that ‘won’, the genocidal theocratic ethnostate, is at least to some extent based on both the nazis, and some of the same esoteric bs the nazis were into.