Since there is no other national liberation movement that progressives do not support, and since the Palestinian leadership has made consistently clear their desire to destroy the Israeli state, it is perfectly reasonable to equate anti-zionism with anti-Semitism. As for racism -- what could be more racist than the idea that you go to heaven if you kill an unbeliever in a holy war (jihad) for God, which is the way Palestinians conceive their intifada. Carrol Cox wrote: > John Johnson wrote: > > > Should Jews have their own country > > would be answered yes by all but the most anti-Semitic. > > The equation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism is a slander > and a lie -- one of the Big Lies of U.S. politics. > > I too once believed this lie -- at a time when I also believed that > the United States was a defender rather than destroyer of freedom. > I was in my mid-thirties when I learned better about the U.S. -- and > very soon I recognized that Israel was simply a construct of U.S. > and European imperialism. > > The state of Israel is an apartheid state. The relationship of the > Israelis to the Palestinians is an almost exact replica of the > relationship of Europeans to American Indians. > > Zionism is racist and oppressive. > > Carrol Cox
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