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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.

Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.

We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20298716

UCLA students arguing that Zionism is a First Amendment-protected religious belief have joined a powerful right-wing legal project.

Raphael Magarik

September 13, 2024

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I mean this will probably work. Pretty good chance. The US really, really, really does not want to abandon the zionist project of occupation, settlerism, and genocide in Palestine and they don't want it to go the way of apartheid South Africa so they have to criminalize and demonize those protesting it and the best way to do that is to cloak it in progressive language of it being bigotry, religious hatred, anti-semitism, etc. This will of course cause a growth of reactionary ideology among people who find the progressive path closed and begin to indulge the talking points of waiting and patient neo-Nazis and other anti-semites which is of course all too beneficial for the ruling class.

So then you'll have a situation where you can be fired and in fact will be fired from many jobs if they find out you're an anti-zionist as you'll legally be seen as no different than a member of the Klan or a neo-Nazi. So anti-zionist speech will no longer be protected for government employees almost certainly and much less so for private sector employees.