@laxla

It's nice to be able to smile today. Thank you.

@MatWright
@chris

@laxla

I am pretty confident that this meaning is understood across W Europe and the UK too. I live and work in Zurich: the Swiss talk about Zionism in these terms; as do the French and Germans. If someone says 'Zionist' it seems they will be understood to mean Bibi politics.

But it seems a fair point: how about Khalanist-Zionism? Seems to differentiate - while being comprehensible?

@MatWright @chris

@laxla

Well - I'm not Jewish, but Jewish mates talk about Zionism in this way.

And I was inspired to learn more listening, some years ago, to a member of the Biritish Board of Jewish Deputies on the BBC Today programme who said that you cannot be a Jew and not be a Zionist. And he explained what it meant. It meant what I mean when I use the word Zionist.

So - take youer point. But no one knows what Kahanism is. But we all know what 'Zionism' is - as used.

@MatWright @chris

@laxla

"Dude, please read some literature"

Thanks 'dude'. I've read quite a bit.

But yes - there are forms of Zionism - not all of which involve massacring Palestinians. However, as understood and propagated in our media and by the Israeli Gov and her supporters, there is one form. And that currently-dominant form does involve massacring Palestinians. A lot of Israeli writing since the Nakba - including liberal authors - have maintained that Zionist dehumanisation.

@MatWright @chris

@MatWright

Wondering how the Zionists are feeling now, as they see their protectors emerge as fully fledged Nazis?

Maybe it will all be OK for them as Zionism is not compatible with Judaism in reality.

@chris

@davetroy Likewise: "he won't be as bad as you think".

Tell that to the families he separated, with kids in cages... etc. etc. etc.

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power…. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

@pezmico but is it one or the other? COVID infections are somewhat outside our control - if you’re going into a school environment - and the collapsing biosphere is not something individuals have any influence over. But our kids phones? Sure. We really do. So we could definitely do something about that source of harm - personally and individually.

My 26 & 23 yr olds have both said that if/when they have kids they will have no screens available to them: interesting to me to hear