Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist

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• Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I had a hard time watching Falcon and Winter soldier because i agreed with the bad guys too much. Borders are dumb and exist to promote violence and nothing else.

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  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    “borders are dumb”

    But you keep borders yourself. We all do.

    Why you doing something so dumb?

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• yeahiknow3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  States have no rights. People have rights.

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• bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Asked by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg whether he thought Zionism was racist, Polanski said: “I don’t think this is actually controversial.

  “What’s controversial is that 75,000 Palestinians have been murdered in the last few years, including more child amputees than ever in modern history. So when you take that to account, the fact that they’re being murdered because they’re Palestinian – that’s very obviously a racist ideology.”

  He added: “I think Zionism is racism in the practical application of it. Now the conference had a debate about the motion, about the word. I said I think debates about words are unhelpful, and I still think that.”

  “Asked whether he believed Israel had a right to exist, Polanski, who is Jewish, said: “I don’t think any state has a right to exist under international law,” adding that the idea of a two-state solution was “for the birds” given Israel’s opposition to it.”

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah, I should have posted a summary, I forgot, thanks.

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  • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s a classic conflation of a Nation and a State. I believe all Nations have a right to exist - that a people with a common cultural identity have a right to that identity and to express that identity through their other rights, such as Speech and Assembly.

    There has been a Jewish Nation for hundreds of years, before there was a Jewish State.

    I don’t think it’s controversial that Jews (or even those who consider themselves Israelis in particular) have the right to form a government, that can democratically pass laws to apply to those who willingly submit to that nation.

    The controversial part is that Government’s formation of a State that expresses sovereignty over territory it has no right to; territory that has been held for hundreds of years by people who are not members of the Jewish Nation, and who the Israelis have no desire to include nor enfranchise.

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• decolo@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  holy based

  States are made up. Borders are violence

  Keep it up Mr Polanski

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Artificial nonhuman entities don’t have inherent rights.

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• rhinestones@europe.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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