Zionism has always relied on myths, distortions, and falsehoods to keep support among the western audience. ZBS (Zionist nonsense) holds generations of judaic Zionists and the more likely to support this racist project, in complete disinformation.
After 2 years of live genocide on smartphones, we saw what happens erstwhile Jews with open minds and hearts, whose Zionism has not yet hardened, are yet facing the reality of this dishonest, racist, brutal and morally bankrupt movement: they tend to leave. And erstwhile they leave, they seldom come back.
I was introduced into Zionism at an early age erstwhile I mostly believed what people from the authorities told me. As a hebrew from the Baby Boom generation, I did not have easy access to high-quality information about Palestine–Israel. We've never heard Palestinian voices, and I don't remember always talking to an anti-Zionist Jew. The communicative I received was completely biased, unilateral and, in retrospect, profoundly offensive.
Through convincing Zionist propaganda, I spent more than half my life defending Israel. erstwhile I yet learned the actual story, I was shocked – and angry.
After years of seeking excuses for what I now know is Israel's crimes against humanity, I want to aid explain the matter. Below is what I consider to be the top Zionist lies in history, in reverse order, where #1 is the most destructive lie – the falsehood that has done the most damage.
It's a perfect example of intellectual laziness. He treats a modern (and anachronistic) colonial task as a timeless desert bloody feud that magically justifies everything Israel does present due to the fact that "Hey, they always hated each other." In fact, Jews, Muslims and Christians have lived together—mostly in peace—in this region for centuries. The current situation has its roots in the ethnic-nationalist and political movement, not in any ancient injury encoded DNA. The story of "old hatred" is convenient due to the fact that it tells Zionists that the position quo is eternal and nothing truly will change in the Israeli oppression of Palestinians, so why condemn it or even question it?
It's a beautiful fairy tale that erases generations of Palestinian farmers who have already grown olives, citrus, grain and another plants, long before Theodore Herzl reached for a pen. It takes Palestinian work, land and water, transforms it into a barren wasteland, and then demands applause erstwhile the colonizer installs sprinklers. It's not a desert bloom. It's stealing someone's garden and calling themselves a genius. Inside there is simply a classical racist Zionist stereotype that the "barbaric" arabian was besides backward to decently grow the land and needed supposedly a "civilized" recently arrived to redeem it – a colonial script as old as the world.
Look at all map of the mediate East printed in 1947, and you will see this word: "PALESTINA". Each nation is "invented" in the sense that identities make over time. But someway only Palestinians are told they don't exist. This lie allows Zionists to treat the full nation as a bureaucratic mistake alternatively of as a nation with a rich history, beautiful culture, language and rights. If you can convince the planet that the Palestinians are false, much easier to make their cities, villages, homes and bodies disappear. As a child, I almost never heard the word "Palestinians." They were called "Arabs", which was the goal of removing their name, eliminating their identity, and it is easier to erase their rights.
Zionism takes a theological, diasporous connection to a given place and tries to turn it into a check and blanco into permanent dominance over the people surviving there. Being an indigenous community doesn't mean "my ancestors had a communicative about this place from 2,000 years ago." It means constant presence, self-care and belonging – not falling with a parachute with a European passport and rifle. And it surely doesn't mean doing Aliyah After a life in Brooklyn and without any connection to this land. Yes, Jews had an ancient presence in Palestine – as did Muslims and Christians. The only ethical consequence in Palestine–Israel is that all should live on an equal basis and not 1 group should hold the right to an exclusive, eternal earthly deed.
Every Palestinian household album, cemetery and key on the necklace are a direct overthrow of this lie. This slogan from day 1 was propaganda to erase millions of Palestinians in 1 sentence. You don't gotta invent empty land unless you plan to empty it yourself. At least 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleared during the first Nakba; full cities were virtually erased from the map, and over 400 villages were destroyed. I think Nakba's denial is as gross as denying the Holocaust, and both affect erasing people's trauma so that they can proceed to hurt them without feeling guilty.
Of course, people simply "voluntarily" leave erstwhile militias shoot over their heads, in close villages there are massacres and it is said that if they cross a certain border, they will be killed. Calling it "voluntary" is what to call a robbery "charitative donation". Nakba was not the renamed Holy Land; It was mass expulsion supported by organized violence. increasing up, I heard that demonic Palestinians were temporarily ordered to leave the area, while arabian armies drove all Jews to the sea, and radio broadcasts called on Arabs hating Jews to leave briefly, while their leaders carried out the task. I checked and checked, and I've never seen credible evidence of this claim. It's an imaginary communicative utilized by racists to represent cultural cleansing victims as hateful home caretakers. The refusal to return the Palestinian refugees is cruel, immoral and non-Jewish.
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This is the first communicative of "have their chance," told as if the Palestinians were recklessly wasting a lot and have been paying the price always since. The 1947 United Nations partition plan was drafted by a committee of 11 countries without arabian representation and proposed to transform about 55% of historical Palestine into a "Jewish state" at a time erstwhile Jews were about a 3rd of the population and owned little than 7% of the land. Palestinians – whose families lived and worked on this land for centuries – were told that the foreign-supported "Jewish state" for European settlers and another Jews from the diaspora would be dropped to land, which had previously been mostly Arab, and a non-binding advice should outweigh their right to self-determination. They were not naive; Palestinians were aware, with fresh past in places specified as Algeria, South Africa and both Americas, what settler colonialism does to indigenous peoples: expropriation, racial hierarchy and erasure of culture. If the situation had turned around and the Zionists were informed to accept a akin solution on most of their lands, I have no uncertainty they would have rejected it too. Calling the Palestinians' refusal to this terrible agreement "sealing their fate" is just another way of saying that the colonized people must accept their own expropriation or forever quit their rights.
This is simply a sales marketplace from hell: divide their land, deprive the "state" of borders, army, water and real sovereignty, and then pretend shocked that they did not sign on the line. What was sold as "a generous offer" is bantustan. Saying "rejected peace" only means they refused to legalize their own cage. Palestinians have never been offered full, genuine sovereignty over their own territory, and Palestinian refugees have never been offered a basic right of return which guarantees them global law. Refusing a false "state" that ratifys your deprivation of property is not a rejection of peace; it is simply a refusal to approve your own permanent submission.
The Zionists seemingly believe that you can control airspace, sea, boundaries, and basic infrastructure, and yet they curse that you are not occupied. Gaza is an example of "remotely controlled occupation": no settlers inside the fence, but complete control over who enters or exits, interrupted by regular bomb campaigns. If it's not a profession, the word doesn't matter. Under global law, the territory remains occupied erstwhile a abroad power maintains effective control over its land, sea and air, and any major legal body that has investigated Gaza continues to classify it as occupied territory. The fact that Zionists don't want to hear it doesn't magically change reality for the people trapped there.
This is simply a lie that tries to press the Reset button in history. He pretends that everything before 7 October 2023 – Nakba, occupation, apartheid, siege, decades of massacres and expulsions – was just a background, and the "conflict" magically began that terrible day. By eradicating almost 8 decades of Israeli force and expropriation, genocide can be allocated to "self-defense". On October 6, Gaza was already widely known as "the world's largest open-air prison", the UN described it as "unliving", and the award-winning Israeli writer Gideon Levy called it "concentration camp". An 18-year-old resident of Gaza would not be able to remember the time erstwhile he was not trapped in this barrier under inhuman conditions for the "crime" of existence as a Palestinian. Pretending that a hellish scenery is simply a day before a calm normality is manipulative.
Democracy for who? The regime, which openly favors 1 ethnic-religious group in law, controls millions of unrighted subjects under military regulation and enacts a law on national states declaring self-determination "unique" to Jews, is nothing but an apartheid. Zionists like to claim that Palestinian-Arab Israeli citizens enjoy equal rights, but organisations specified as Adalah have documented more than 60 Israeli rights that straight or indirectly discriminate against them on land, citizenship, political participation, resources and fundamental civilian rights (details in Adalah Discriminator Laws database). Calling this "democracy" is little a compliment to Israel and more an insult to the full concept of democracy. I find it offensive to attribute the word "democracy" to the apartheid state, which refuses at least half of the people under its control the right to vote on officials deciding whether they live, die or can go to a doctor.
That sounds reasonable at first glance. Like all others, Jews deserve security, freedom and dignity. In practice, however, Zionism never relied solely on the security, freedom and dignity of the Jews; it was a political task designed to supply the state with the judaic majority on earth, which was already mostly Palestinian. "Jewish self-determination", in Zionist use, is simply a euphemism on a state that claims the right to oppress Palestinians to warrant the permanent dominance of Jews. The conversation never concerns the self-determination of everyone between the river and the sea; it is about the expected "right" of 1 group to self-determination, which is utilized as an asset card (without intended wordplay) to deny the same right to people already surviving there and to present any demands for Palestinian equality as an attack on the very existence of Jews. erstwhile Zionists inform that equal rights of Palestinians will "destroy" Israel, they admit that their version of Israel as an ethnostate with exclusive rights for the "chosen" only exists erstwhile Palestinians are kept unequally.
It's a restraining order. He claims that the political ideology of the 19th-Xth century and the current apartheid state are someway linked to the core of judaic identity, so any serious criticism of Zionism or Israel automatically becomes a hatred of Jews. In practice, it was utilized to silence Palestinians, punish judaic dissidents, and suppress peace movements specified as BDS. Worse still, insisting that Israel talk and kill "for Jews", it actually increases the hazard for average Jews around the world, and then points to the reaction that it helped to trigger, as evidence that Jews "need" Zionism. The claim that "good" Jews support oppression is in itself anti-Semitic, and with the increase of the number of Jews openly identifying themselves as anti-Zionists, the claim that anti-Zionism or harsh criticism of Israel equals hatred of Jews, seems increasingly absurd overnight – and more desperate.
This is the another side of the coin of supremacy: if Jews are portrayed as eternally rational, civilized victims, Palestinians must be portrayed as barbaric, irrational beings that either scope for weapons or root for those who do. Not to mention that Palestinians have a huge, documented past of peaceful opposition – boycotts, strikes, marches, social committees – in the face of overwhelming force. If you mark an full nation with innate terrorists, all checkpoint, all bombing, all kid killed in bed becomes a "preventive protection". increasing up, I was convinced that "Arabs" hated Jews for being Jews, and that if they always had the chance, they would kill us all. This is the same script that all colonial settlement task used, from calling indigenous peoples "wilder peoples" to describing enslaved Africans as inherently dangerous. Unlike the IOF and illegal Israeli settlers, who proceed to usage violence, including terrorism, the vast majority of Palestinians responded unviolently to more than 77 years of force by the Israeli state.
This is the purest form of blaming the victims in Zionism: decades of humiliation, expropriation, sieges, bombings, prisons and famine are presented as a kind of cosmic client service problem that Palestinians have caused themselves, not being sufficiently silent, thankful or dead. Each crime becomes a "consequence" of their expected barbarism, not a choice made by an highly powerful state that has chosen to regulation another nation by force. It's the logic of the unsub: whatever I do to you, it's your responsibility you made me do it. And like any blaming of the victim, there is to soothe the conscience of the torturer and to tell the remainder of the planet that justice would be dangerous, while continuous cruelty is simply "the natural order of things."
Nothing shouts "most moral" like bombing hospitals, schools and mosques; starving the nonfree population; and destroying full districts, all recorded on video and broadcast live throughout the world. This password exists for precisely 1 reason: to clean up all crime. If you accept the presumption that IOF is highly moral, then whatever it does – including mass murders – must be someway acceptable. That's not ethics; It's a cult move. Since October 7, 2023, more journalists have died in the Israeli war against children, women and men from Gaza than in any another conflict or country in the planet during a akin period, making this conflict the bloodiest conflict always recorded. The "most moral army" doesn't kill people whose occupation is to show the planet what they do.
When you systematically kill, mutilate, starve and teardrop out the imprisoned population, while political and military leaders openly talk of their erasure, this is not a tragic case of war; It's a demolition project. Denying genocide in live mass murders is not a neutral position; It's an accessory. 1 of the more popular Zionist phrases is "Hamas hides in civilian areas", as if it made all house, hospital, school, mosque and residential block in Gaza a mark for combat. Gaza is 1 of the most densely populated places in the planet – there is no specified thing as "non-civilised area" – and global law does not say, "If the militants are nearby, you can wipe out full districts and starve all those who stay alive." Even in the urban war, the army must separate those fighting from civilians, apply proportional force, and avoid collective punishment. And if putting military infrastructure close civilians automatically makes these civilians redundant, Israelis should want to explain why IOF headquarters, Kirya complex – Israeli "Pentagon" – are located in the heart of Tel Aviv center, surrounded by offices, buying malls, residential skyscrapers and dense civilian life. Bombing exile camps, attacking journalists and medics and cutting off food, water and medicines to 2 million people is not self-defense; It's deliberate demolition of the nation's ability to live. The main human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, the UN Investigative Commission and B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights organisation, concluded that Israel was allowed to commit genocide or acts that meet the legal definition of genocide in Gaza, and the ICC issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli Prime Minister for utilizing hunger as a weapon against civilians. Denying that this is all happening is denying the reality that Palestinians face all day.
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