Reply #160: How is it anti-Semitic to quote the founders of Zionism? Being against

[mom cat]

Zionism is NOT being anti-Semitic. The brutal occupation of the Palestinian homeland is in many ways like our own brutal genocide against the indigenous people of what we call America. Both are reprehensible colonialist excesses.
I think that it is our moral obligation to point out policies where anyone's human rights are violated and not censor ourselves because current perpetrators have been victims in the past.
I do not think that calling Stan Goff's piece anti-semitic helps the dialog, and it waters down the meaning of the phrase as well. Hard core anti-semitism has no place in civilized society. Neither does the colonial occupation of another land, whether the brutal occupiers are Pilgrims, coalitions of the killing,Zionist occupiers or Nazi invaders.
The act of invading another country is now considered to be a war crime. Let us stop letting some people be allowed to be above the rules.