Arguing that criticism of Zionism is criticism of all Jewish people is like arguing that criticism of MAGA is criticism of all Americans.
Just like there are a large number of Americans who are MAGA, there are a large number of Jews who are Zionists but no, not all Americans are MAGA and not all Jews are Zionists (rule of thumb, if your argument starts with “All Jews are…”, it’s a fundamentally antisemitic one).
Furthermore, just like not all MAGA are Americans (hello, Nigel Farage, etc.), not all Zionists are Jews. In fact, many Zionists – like Christian Zionists – are deeply antisemitic and Zionism itself is mired in antisemitism*.
Anyone who conflates being a Zionist with being Jewish and criticism of Zionism with antisemitism is perpetuating an antisemitic trope that essentially posits that all Jewish people are pro settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism
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![[Composite image: a young woman in combat clothing and three young women, similarly dressed]
This is me.
Veronica Sherman.
I was 18.
It was my last day of Basic Training in March 1993 on a huge army base close to G♡za.
I was just about to go into a shipping container office and be told I had been chosen for the Israeli Air Force.
"The best to the Air Force" is the slogan.
I quickly realised it translated to "The blonde & the blue eyed to the Air Force."
I was completely brainwashed into believing that by serving in the IDF, I was serving God.
I knew that I knew that I knew that the modern State of Israe| was the same Israe| I read about in the Bible.
It would take me until my thirties to unravel from my racist Jewish supremecy.
At 18 I couldn't even say the word Pa|estine.
And there definitely were no Pa|estinans.
I went to an international school and in my mind "my friends" were either Israe|i ar♡bs or Jordanian ar♡bs.
I can see now that stripping Pa|estinans of their name, culture, story & identity is key to the brainwashing.](https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/116/032/841/229/212/212/original/7f805b5d79d787e2.png)
