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I don't know if just because someone is Israeli or Jewish it makes his opinion that much more valid - especially when people cherry pick the views that already
by weatherlite 2y ago
I don't know if just because someone is Israeli or Jewish it makes his opinion that much more valid - especially when people cherry pick the views that already conform to their opinion and ignore all the rest (e.g if the person is an Israeli anti zionist they will listen to him, if he's an Israeli Zionist they will cancel him).
As for the criticism itself, too much of the time (imo) it focuses on Israel as a uniquely colonizing and evil entity in the world and is completely one sided. One side is totally evil (the Israeli side), has no business existing and should self dismantle or get help from the world in dismantling. The other side (the Palestinian side) can pretty much do no wrong.
- racional 2y agoIf I may simplify what you're saying to what seems to be the gist: [The criticism] focuses on Israel as a uniquely colonizing entity In essence the criticism seems to boil down to this: Israel indisputably maintains the longest-running military occupation in the world, at present. Which it is aggressively expanding in both the West Bank and Gaza, as we speak. Its attitude towards the Arab population has been ineluctably colonial from the very start of the movement. As expressed in most every piece of Zionist writing you will find, and the recorded statements from basically everyone involved. And then the large-scale massacres and violent displacements starting in 1947. In a supposedly post-colonial world, there are very few countries with an analogous situation or history. Is this the criticism you're referring to?