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So read their pamphlets then. Honestly, what do you have to do to count as a Zionist organization? Do you have to regurgitate Israeli nationalist historiography about the 1948 war? Check. Do you have to reduce anti-Israel sentiment to anti-Semitism? Check. Do you have to claim that left-wing anti-Zionism is little more than latent Stalinism (like the kind that supports Syria or Iran)? Check. Do you have to exploit the Holocaust to portray Zionist settlers as little more than victims? Check. Do you have to accuse boycotters of being genocidal in their intentions? Check. Do you have to portray Zionism as a reaction to anti-Semitism, rather than an extension of it? Check. Do you have to witch-hunt left groups that rally against the massacre(s) in Gaza, as though they are unfairly "singling out" the regime occupying Palestine? Check. They are the embodiment of the failure of some groups on the "left" to engage racism and colonialism properly, as the Charlie Hebdo fiasco has shown us. They have taken their own misplaced, ahistoric concerns about anti-Semitism and decided to impose those concerns onto any kind of meaningful campaign against Zionism, whether by leftists, Muslims, whoever, as well as Muslims more generally. They have taken up the same garbage line as *The Militant*. And they are, in my view, leftists in name only. If the "left" includes people who peddle Israeli propaganda and stigmatize anti-Zionism then I'll gladly step outside of it. - Amith On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Sergii Kutnii via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Well, identifying AWL - a British organisation not trying even to > build an interantional - as Zionists is something jaw-dropping to me. > > i think the ones making such accusations should provide evidence about > AWL's link to Israel or maybe its continuity with historical Zionist > organisations. AWL disagreeing with someone in the Western left on the > approach towards the Israeli-Arab conflict is certainly not enough to > classify them as Zionists for me. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
