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At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said.

Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows.

A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal their anti-Israel attire and thwart any attempt to stop them ahead of time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

This survey shows a majority of American Jews are Zionists. The percentage of Zionists is much higher among Jews living in Israel. That gives you a solid majority for Zionism among Jews.

Mods won’t like this post and delete it, just like the one you answered to. They might even ban me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, we should stop listening to americans, brits and germans on this. The literal rest of the world is feeling nauseous but they are still repeating propaganda while people are being massacred.

Of course this have to do with the rise of ultranationalism. Germany for the germans, make america great again, Brexit. Isreal for the jews.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Let’s embrace Palestinian ultranationalist Islamist blood and soil ideology and demand ethnic cleansing of the Jews back to Europe instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

what? They are parked in a ghetto. They just want their land back. Are the native americans nazis for wanting self-governance? Were they wrong for wanting scalps white men. No they were not.

Were the Irish in the wrong for the homerule struggle? No of course not. The brits came and stole their land.

Nobody want to deport israelis. White people still live in south africa as far as i know. They sure whine a lot but nobody got deported did they?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's also not an either/or situation. It's not either the Palestinians have the land or the Israelis have the land.

The land can be shared. So can the government. And that government can be 100% secular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Throw bibi and biden in jail and then we can talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think we can talk about it regardless of where they are. And we should talk about it. And the more people that talk about it, the closer we get to realizing it. It will, of course, take a critical mass of people in Israel to agree, but that's exactly why you keep talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. War crimers should be judged before we can talk about peace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's ludicrous. You expect me to just shut my mouth about my idea of a peaceful future just because bad things are happening now? Fuck no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huh no I expect you to act according to a very simple principle of justice. Bombing hospitals is against international laws and the responsible should pay. Otherwise everything you say is just demonstrative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so let's say this war ends, there is no more genocide, Israelis and Palestinians form a single democratic state and become a model of peace for the region- but Netanyahu and Biden are never tried for war crimes.

It sounds like that would not be acceptable to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To me it is. To the people on the ground who lost half of their family? No fucking way. You know the slogan right. No justice no peace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If that's acceptable to you, why can't it be discussed?

Why should this topic be silenced?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh come on of course it can be discussed. You can discuss it all you want. It was just a figure of speech.

What I'm saying is that it's just talk. Cheap talks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well maybe instead of criticizing random Lemmy users hoping for a better future of such cheap talk, you contact more prominent people and groups and criticize them for it instead.

I would start with the Arab Center in Washington, DC - https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/shifting-the-paradigm-the-one-state-solution-as-a-path-to-peace/

Then there's John Rees, founder of the Stop War Coalition - https://www.counterfire.org/article/palestine-the-only-solution-is-now-the-one-state-solution/

And then, of course, there's the Nelson Mandela Foundation - https://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/the-time-for-action-is-now

MintPress founder and director and Palestinian journalist Mnard Adley discussed it. You'll want to get in touch with her - https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/what-about-the-one-state-solution-with-an-equal-vote-for-every-palestinian-and-israeli

Let me know when you're done contacting all of them with what you're criticizing me for and I'll give you more names of people and organizations far more influential than me that you can contact over this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Cool, thanks <3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Funny how you cite a source that doesn't even contain the word "Zionist", "Zionism", "Zion" anything.

If you actually have a look at the data you can see there's very significant chunks that don't have an issue with BDS, that don't think that Netanyahu is in any way serious about peace. Those are not the frothing-at-the-mouth Kahanites that people on the US left often mean when they say "Zionist". Yitzhak Rabin was a Zionist. Murdered by a Zionist.

It's more complicated than that and may I remind y'all that Hamas specifically targeted Hippie Kibutzim during their attack, the same kind of people who go into the West Bank during olive harvest so that settlers have a harder time shooting Palestinians, which is one of the reasons why the Israeli government doesn't give a rat's arse about the hostages.

The biggest enemies of the Zionist project, currently, is the type of people running the Israeli government. Because if you're out for a place for Jews to call home, to live in peace and prosperity, antagonising the fuck out of everyone is not the way to go about it. Traitors to the movement, the lot of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well a lot of german were nazis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The highest result for the NSDAP in elections was 43%.

Comparing Jews to Nazis is Antisemitic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They were comparing Jews to Germans, not Nazis; they were comparing Zionists to Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

No. Comparing Zionists to Nazis is not antisemitic. I am a Jew and not a Zionist. Many Zionists are Christians. Zionist does not equal Jew or vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Who's talking about jews? I thought Israel was an open society with equal rights for all people.

Anyway they're bombing civilians with white phosphorus. Fuck off. Watch yourself in the mirror real hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

They were still the first party. My point is that you cannot equate jews and israel otherwise we can stab the first jew since they support using white phosphorus on civilians

Equating a political entity with an ethnicity is the rationale for collective punishment.

Collective punishment which you obviously support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

America and Israel. The only two countries in the world with Jews.

FACT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Together they contain more than 80% of Jews.

Recent Jewish population dynamics are characterized by continued steady increase in Israeli Jewry and flat or declining numbers in other countries (the diaspora)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see. So based on your "evidence," 60% of the percentage of the 80% of Jews that live in America in that combined 80% total of Israel and the U.S. are "Zionists" (even though that's not what your poll said).

This is what the poll said:

Among U.S. Jews overall, 58% say they are very or somewhat emotionally attached to Israel,

"Somewhat emotionally attached to Israel" is not Zionism by any stretch of the imagination.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Emotionally attached means they want it to continue existing. That’s Zionism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. No it does not. I live in Indiana. I was born here. I have an emotional attachment to it.

If Canada decided to invade and turn this into Upper Ontario, because Canadian names are weird, I not only wouldn't give a shit, I'd welcome the universal healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you advocating for Israel to annex the West Bank so Palestinians get better healthcare?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. And the people who claim they have an emotional attachment to Israel are not necessarily advocating for that either. A point you now seem to be intentionally missing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of Zionists want a two state solution and for Israel to stop the occupation in the West Bank.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That isn't even relevant to the 'emotional attachment' thing. You're just bringing up irrelevancies because you want Jew to equal Israeli and vice-versa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They’re of course not equal, but there’s a relationship.

Lots if Israelis and Zionists don’t agree with Netanyahu‘s policies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How kind of you to finally acknowledge that after two days of "Jews support Israel and this shitty poll that doesn't prove that proves it."

Too bad you couldn't have just come in here and congratulated the Jewish members JVFP that were just arrested for this work of activism and decided to make this whole thing an attack on Jews instead.

Of course, you have yet to even acknowledge this activism despite that the fact that they STORMED THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

Not good enough for you to even acknowledge in a post about that activism apparently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I never said there’s no protest or it didn’t happen. Stop making up stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is not what I said. Please re-read what I wrote:

Of course, you have yet to even acknowledge this activism despite that the fact that they STORMED THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

Not good enough for you to even acknowledge in a post about that activism apparently.

You still have not acknowledged what they did, let alone suggested that they did a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That survey says the opposite of what you think it does. Zionism now is essentially the Jewish version of white supremacy. It's radical. It's dangerous.

But when the survey you link to states quite clearly:

"And most Jewish adults took the position that God “did not literally give” the land of Israel to the Jewish people (42%) or said they do not believe in God or a higher power at all (24%)."

That's not Zionism as currently defined.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Zionism is independent of being religious or secular.