I have never posted, commented or did anything else in this community and only found out when I wanted to make a post about the GNU Taler in Switzerland.
I have been a vocal critic of Israeli Warcrimes and Nettanyahus authoritarianism, calling him a potential Fascist. But I guess that wasn’t Anti-Israel enough and therefore Zionism.
I guess this is a modern-day example of “the revolution devours its own children”.
I tend to be careful to not call a person antisemitic, which leads to more confrontation and toxicity from my experience, but to instead explain to them why their actions are antisemitic. The same here.
I went back to look at the Discussion and in this case this particular user told me that “Jews” were the “Nationality” of Israel. I told them why this was antisemitism, told them why (mixing Judaism the Religion with Israel the state) and asked them to stop this.
I honestly don’t think I did anything wrong there. I didn’t call them antisemitic and instead calmly explained to them why their statements were antisemitic. I blocked them instead of letting the discussion get out of control when it became clear they would continue even after my explanation why it was antisemitic.
No name-calling, calm explanation and disengagement instead of escalation.
Israels own designations are ‘Israeli Jews’ and ‘Israeli Arabs’ and has a nation-state law explicitly defining Israel as a Jewish State.
This is due to Zionism being a supremacist ideology
Israel conflates Judaism and Zionism on a regular basis, which is certainly antisemitic.
I don’t know the context of the discussion, so I can’t really say either way. It is correct that Israel considers Jews the Nationality of Israel, it is also true that Israel’s use of such is itself antisemitic.
Adi Callai, an anti-zionist Jewish Israeli, has an in depth analysis of the history of antisemitism and how Zionism has weaponized it for it’s own ends