and learn to know the difference between anti-zionism. most day to day life you’ll see people trying to pass off a notion that anti-zionism is anti-semitism from positions of power. but here lemmy it’s far too common for someone to push anti-semitism under the guise of anti-zionism.

zionism is an ideology built on hate. you cannot counter it with hate. you can only counter hate with empathy. sometimes that empathy will take the form of supporting people countering violence with violence in desperation to survive. pacifism is not an activity. it is a social value. in order for there to be peace, there must be people who weild their access to violence to protect vulnerable people from those who would weild violence for their own petty and ephemeral pleasure.

what’s more is that zionism is not a universally held jewish belief. the majority of the diaspora is against israel’s apartheid state. we don’t like it. it looks far too much like the apartheid states we lived in with the only difference being the aesthetic of the state. we find that shit offensive.