Thank you all for saying this. As a Jewish Canadian, let me tell you the “It’s not anti-Semitic, it’s anti-Zionist” hall pass is used up here plenty too.

Yes, I am absolutely personally offended by your opinion, and honestly I hope it would be obvious why that is. Not to get personal, but there was a time where I totally bought into this “oh it’s because of an underlying problem!” reconciliation-industrial complex nonsense. “Oh, we need to work together to determine…

This is where anti-Zionism sounds anti-semitic. “which would be Jewish... ?)“ 

And for many Jews, including Jews like me who are not particularly religious or align with any Zionist views, we get scared anytime Jews become everyone’s target. We’ve seen this movie before. It’s like being the person of color in a horror movie. It never seems to end well.

It seems pretty obvious to me that what QueenVictoriasCorsetKatana is saying is that one can disavow the current reality of a nation and still support the principles and ideas that the nation theoretically stands for. Saying that I’m a “PROUD AMERICAN” doesn’t mean I think that the nation isn’t currently a dumpster…

It’s like this AT THE MOMENT. It doesn’t need to stay that way. And there are many in and out of Israel who want it to change, because Zionism doesn’t mean that it can’t or shouldn’t.

I just wish they would come up with a second term for that certain category of militant, isolationist Zionists to differentiate them from the general movement to create and maintain a Jewish state, particularly in the previous location of Israel. Like, we have the term “Islamism” and “Islamists” to differentiate…

Agreed and there is an element of cowardice in this, too, that I see almost exclusively on the left. They don’t want to be associated with something imperfect, they want all of the brownie points, so they hide behind this idea of “I begrudgingly voted HRC”, to both show that they did the right thing but that it was…

Well yeah, we spread news in the form of memes now after all!

I don’t know why these commenters are acting like this all is so simple when it isn’t and never has been.

Because we inist on making them all-encompassing heroes who know all instead of “person who is good on this issue listen to them regarding this specific thing.”

This. They went after Majiid Nawaz as well. hey literally called him an anti muslim bigot, despite the fact that he is still a practicing muslim and just want to reform it to a more liberal form. There’s a wonderful bit from his radio show on youtube where he takes a call from a muslim who is mad at him for saying…

Especially since let’s face it, her stunt calling for jihad against Trump could only backfire. Like the rightwing outlets were going to politrly publish retractions and note how she used the word—fuck that! They have a prominent leftist Muslim activist calling for “jihad” against the Prez of the USA! Run that…

The tweet in question. Whatever you feel about Ayaan, her anger and her activism comes from a place of genuine suffering. And given the fact that she DID suffer from FGM, saying “she doesn’t deserve to be a woman” is gross and indefensible. Because it’s something that someone almost literally tried to inflict upon…

Yep. Acting like she’s perfect ends up hurting her more than helping since it means you’re ignoring the very real issues with her rhetoric can cause on issues like antisemitism, which sadly a lot of “anti-zionist” groups routinely engage in because they think as long as they re-label it, it’s okay or even just don’t…

The left is so susceptible to right wing propaganda, we saw it with Hillary Clinton and now we’re seeing it with Nancy Pelosi and with activist leaders like Sarsour. It seems like people on the left internalize the negative propaganda and start couching anything positive they have to say with things like, “I’m no…

You know what? I actually just wholeheartedly disagree. I know this is a super popular pop psychology perspective - “oh, the cheating is a symptom, not a cause!” But it discounts the fact that some cheaters in fact DO cheat to hurt their partner. Look up “triangulation.” Some people actually really get off on it. …

Yeah, but sometimes the thing that needs fixing is actually one person’s serious issue (some women and men are serial cheaters because of their own internal crap). Nice people who are good partners get stuck with cheaters sometimes. Other times, the relationship falters because the connection peters out, or one stops…

Chris needs to leave her alone. I hate my normal exes popping up. I can’t imagine having to deal with my ex that famously beat me just coming around like Hey Girl! It’s me! NBD! You look great!

I am thisclose to running around screaming all the time because of this shit. Things I never thought I’d have to worry about in my lifetime. The anxiety is very high lately. :(