‘Self-defence’ has vastly different meanings for the colonised and the coloniser.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21423185

[important article - has information on far-right Zionist thugs in Canada and US]

Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer.

14 Oct 2024

  • Sundial@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    They definitely do. It’s for their sake and all the other Jews that I choose not to consider Zionists as Jews.

    • davelAEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I don’t think no true Scotsman is a good position to take. I can’t say that no real Jew would be a Zionist any more than I can say no real German would be a Nazi. It creates space for an “it can’t happen here” fantasy, which is dangerous.

      • Sundial@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        I’m not seeing it that way. The no true Scotsman fallacy is more if you create an arbitrary set of rules to differentiate 2 groups that should be the same. These Zionists are going hard against the teaching of Moses and the Jewish faith in general. It’s pretty clear they are not actual Jews.

        • davelAEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Oh. People aren’t going to know that by Jew you mean believer in Judaism unless you qualify it. Most Jews aren’t even religious.

          • Sundial@lemm.ee
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            1 month ago

            Yeah that’s fair. I tend to forget that a lot of people consider Jew an ethnicity as well as a religion. Your point makes sense in that light.