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Chang Chokaski's avatar

CJ>"Trying to argue that Zionism doesn’t mean genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and nonstop violence and abuse is exactly the same as trying to argue that Nazism doesn’t mean all the things that happened when the Nazism experiment was run."

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We have U.S. Presidents proudly proclaiming themselves to be Zionists - which is like proudly proclaiming to be Nazis. People are slowly realizing that America is now on a trajectory of becoming Nazi America (like Nazi Germany).

Thank you Caitlin (and Tim) for another wonderful, hard-hitting article. ❤️🙏

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Ron Stockton's avatar

Chang, here in Canada, as Justin Trudeau, our then Liberal Prime Minister was resigning he said he was a Zionist and any Canadian should be proud to call themselves a Zionist. There was no need for it, no context, just something he had to get out there. And he was considered left wing by Canada’s Nazi main stream media. Astonishing. In case you hadn’t heard, despite the lies coming from our current Liberal government, Canada is still providing weapons and ammunition to Israel.

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Hans-Peter Kohnke's avatar

yes. it was bizarre. but this is the same genocide justin that thought it was cool to party in black face and to invite ss nazi hunka to parliament for an all around sieg heil ... i mean, standing ovation. as dimitris lascaris asserts, we r ruled by monsters.

what liberals should also be concerned about is that liberalism and liberal values died in the graveyard of gaza as has so many other so-called "lofty" western institutions.

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Ron Stockton's avatar

I'd guess the liberals won't have time to worry about their values dying (values + I'm not rich but I'm OK and don't want that disturbed) because they'll be too busy at their favourite past time, smearing and attacking socialists.

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Ken Taylor's avatar

By the time not-so-beloved Trudolf fled parliament hill, he had disgraced himself in so many ways. He was/is a nasty globalist, a boring, contemptuous champion of Woke no-think and a pathetic hero for the murderous psychopaths known as zionists. Let's not forget how he and his government of sheep honoured a Nazi war criminal side by side with the criminal known as zelenskyy. Turdo continued to push the fake covid narrative as well as the anti-Russia/anti-Putin dog and pony show to please his American/globalist masters. He eventually disgusted so many Canadians and his many lies caught up with him. No place to go for our zionNazi hero, except out. Gone but never forgotten(in infamy)!

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Ron Stockton's avatar

"Turdo continued to push the fake covid narrative ...". Sorry Ken, you lost credibility with that statement. You're sounding like one of the Convoy crowd that was conned by the Nazi interlopers.

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Whatistobedone's avatar

We are Nazis.

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Peter McIntyre's avatar

Well said Caitlin

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Levi Tate's avatar

Here is why Israel thinks it should exist and be a member in good standing at the UN:

1) I torture UN workers

2) I bomb embassies

3) I refuse to declare my official borders as I want more and more of other countries' (plural) land

4) I openly interfere in the affairs of other countries.

5) All criticism by any member of the World Community just reinforces my sense of privileged Victimhood

6) I never tell a lie as I have no concept. I only know what serves me.

7) I invented the Samson Option and will take the rest of you with me.

8) I commit collective punishment

9) I kidnap thousands, including children, with no judicial oversight

10) I will commit torture if I see fit and even if I don't

11) I oppress occupied inhabitants and enjoy doing so

12) I commit rape with impunity against mine enemies

13) I shoot little boys in the genitals

14) I steal land with impunity

15) I murder with impunity

16) I commit premeditated Genocide

17) I look forward to war and prod my neighbors for more

18) I need money, send a check

19) I commit false flags and if friends or even my own people are sacrificed so be it.

20) I implement the Hannibal Doctrine

21) Treachery and betrayal of my own people are a means to an end

22) I support and conduct terrorism.

23) I attract starving civilians, women and children, with food aid and then murder them in cold blood.

24) I know that I can count on other amoral nations to support my wars, oppression and theft.

25) I know that the World Community will not stop me as I commit future Genocides

26) I target aid trucks and kill their workers;

27) I especially target hospitals;

28) I kill civilian prisoners, women and children and old people.

29) I use my lobbyists to attack, intimidate and silence freedom of speech

30) I torture and kill UN workers and their dependents

31) I protected Zionist perpetrators of the Holocaust and lie about their role.

32) I cannibalize living Palestinian captives for their internal organs

33) I use human shields

34) I kill and kill and kill as many journalists as I can find

35) I am a refuge for criminals; not limited to: fugitive pedophiles and US traitors

36) I take delight in being a hyper-sadist and proudly boast of it; "1 shot 2 kills"

37) I use starvation as both a tactic and for my strategic goal of Genocide.

38) I use chemical and biological weapons on Palestinians and my neighbors.

39) I burn babies alive with impunity.

40) Most of my people support mass murder, racism and theft, and thus make known the true nature and meaning of Israel.

Those that would make it illegal to protest against Genocide support the Psychopathic Genocidal Entity that <B>has given voice to the urge to kill us all (Samson Option).</B> When madness speaks people had darn well be on the alert.

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Davina's avatar

Such a bunch of lying hypocritical would think these are all goodie good things to have done and do.

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Tenggara's avatar

I’m glad more and more people are seeing the atrocities but at what cost to the Palestinians

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jamenta's avatar
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Biblical prophecy ...

According to Leviticus, we all can possess slaves, as long as we purchase them from other nations. And according to Exodus, I can sell my daughter into slavery for a good price.

Eating shellfish is an abomination to God (Lev. 11:10), and if you are male, and want your hair trimmed, it is absolutely forbidden by God (Lev. 19:27)

And did you know, according to God, you are to have no contact with any woman during her Menstrual period of uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24)

And any of you who work on the Sabbath, should be put to death. (Exodus 35:2)

This is the "book" Mike Huckabee is quoting from as a source of divine authority. This book, which has been redacted, rewritten, recompiled, excised, revisioned and divided over centuries and centuries. It is a book replete with nonsense, but also some pearls of wisdom for those who don't take everything they read literally.

Don't be fooled by the Huckabees of the world. Listen to your own sense of moral decency. And know mass murder and brutal abuse for what it is - what's obvious before your eyes. Not in a dusty old book written 2,000 years ago. What's inside you is far more valid.

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Bruce Maltby's avatar

Love that Jamenta

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Margaret Henderson's avatar

A great post, Jamena, makes you think. Are you familiar with Deuteronomy? :

'When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many people living there, you shall slaughter them all and utterly destroy them. You shall make no agreements with them or show them any mercy. You shall destroy their altars, cut down their groves and burn their holy images with fire. For you are a Holy People unto the Lord and he has chosen you to be a Special People above all others upon the face of the earth'.

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jamenta's avatar
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It's a bit sad to me that so much of what we have of the modern bible today is filled with crazy stuff so easy to point out. It gives any honest attempts with spirituality a bad rap, especially those who use it blindly for their own unconscious projections grounded in ignorance.

Actually, those who have studied the bible more carefully know one can find some remarkable spiritual stories with some depth (such as the story of Joseph or Ruth). But much of the writing has been overshadowed by cynical manipulation, redactions - by unscrupulous clergy over the centuries. Some original christian writings completely have vanished or been abolished. For example, the early Gnostic writings marginalized into non-existence.

The New Testament is an even greater mess than the Old Testament. Who the real Jesus was and what he said - well you got to read a great deal between the lines, and have a much greater understanding of the mythological underpinnings - to get perhaps a glimmer of what he was about, and/or what he did.

As Joseph Campbell once wrote: "There are two attitudes toward religious and mythic images today. One is that they are references to facts, and the other is that they are lies. But they are neither facts nor lies; rather, they are metaphors. Mythology is a compendium of metaphors."

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Scott's avatar

“Zionism just means self-determination for Jews! If you hate Zionism then you hate Jews!”

Fine I hate Jews then, how can anyone with a conscience not at this point? It's their actions and inactions on the issue of genocide that has brought me to this point. If Jews feel like antisemitism is on the rise, then look no further than your closest mirror as to why that it is.

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Antonio Brownlowe's avatar

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/12/brdo-m12.html?pk_campaign=wsws-newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws-daily-newsletter

This is Theroux’s second documentary on the ultra-nationalist settlers. In 2011, making The Ultra Zionists, he described them as being “on the fringe of a fringe in terms of their outlook and beliefs,” while enjoying “a degree of support from the Israeli state.”

That year, the Netanyahu government faced mounting protests across the whole of Israeli society against economic conditions. Conscious of the Arab Spring, the government approved thousands of settlements on occupied Palestinian land to offset this protest movement.

Today, fascist settler parties are in government and are playing a determining role in Benjamin Netanyahu’s murderous regime. The settlers provide an essential social base for militarism and social reaction.

Theroux’s documentary, though focused on the West Bank, also showed the ethnic cleansing colonialist programme for Gaza. Daniella Weiss, the far-right “godmother” of the settler movement, boasted of having 800 families ready to move into Gaza, saying, “Our mission is to settle Israel.”

She shows Theroux a map of the “Greater Israel” she means, encompassing Lebanon, Jordan, and parts of Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Palestinians in this region should leave and go to other countries, she declares. When Theroux says that not thinking about other people at all seems “sociopathic,” she laughs. “This is normal,” she insists.

This is the real policy of Zionism. In Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, Theroux is asked by an Israeli soldier, “How long are you going to be in Israel?”

Texas-born settler Ari Abramowitz carries his gun at all times, including in the synagogue. He calls the Bible “a land deed to the West Bank.” Showing Theroux around, he insisted that the Palestinian people “don’t exist”.

At one point we see Weiss’s car break from an escorted convoy of settlers and rabbis and head towards Gaza. Her gesture, she said, was to show the accompanying rabbis that Gaza is not “beyond reach.” One rabbi, Dov Lior, is shown calling for Palestinian “savages” and “camel-riders” to be “cleansed.”

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

And it's not just Israel that does this -- it's all western and western influenced governments and media who support this. They are what they do and support, just like Israel. What are the rest of us going to do about that?

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Zionism is as Zionism does. I don't know how any intelligent, sane AND moral person could argue any differently, but Caitlin points out that's exactly what some are still doing. I don't doubt these people are intelligent, but their sanity and morality are certainly up for questioning.

Keep sharing the truth and exposing the genocidaires and their supporters. We'll need a list of names for when the ICC trials begin.

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Lisa's avatar

Perfectly put Caitlin, thank you.

Today (Thursday 21st August) is Strike for Siege day worldwide. Please avoid spending wherever possible, use BDS tactics, only spend cash at independent small outlets if necessary. Strike or work very very slowly. Lets show just how much humanity across the world hates what the Zionists are doing to the Palestinians and indeed all their neighbours. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Susan T's avatar

"Zionism means exactly what we see before us today. Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Apartheid. Nonstop violence and abuse. That’s what Zionism means." Zionists think all this stuff is just fine because they think they are superior to other people, especially to Palestinians. They commit horrible crimes against Palestinians and then accuse them of hating Jews. They don't accuse them of hating Zionists because that would make sense. Some Jews work with Palestinians as happened in the making of the documentary "No Other Land". But, of course those Jews are self hating Jews, say the Zionists. Zionists are fucked up people, the same as Nazis and sometimes even outdoing Nazis with their vile, cruel behaviour.

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John Day MD's avatar

"You Are What You Do"

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"By their fruits you will know them." (And Zionists are a bunch of rotten apples.)

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Davina's avatar

That is the old testament of the Jews, written by Jews for jews, it shows how even then they were such hypocritical "they thought themselves superior to all, and that god looked up at them" which shows that their god is satan, end of.

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Nour Morsy's avatar

They told us Zionism was just “self-determination for Jews.” But the reality is genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid—and a system built on endlessly leeching off foreign taxpayers’ livelihoods. Every accusation they throw at Arabs is projection, every excuse a mask for the crimes we see unfolding today.

And now, when the mask slips, they sell ethnic cleansing as “humanitarian evacuation,” trying to cloak their theft in the language of compassion. Western politicians and celebrities stay bought and silent, but thank you, Caitlin, for naming Zionism for what it really is. Much respect

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Peter Giaschi's avatar

An excellent piece, Caitlin. I'll be sharing it with all my lovely Canadian Zionists...

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Occam's avatar

Scary to think that much of this sentiment from the western side is from the quest for power.

If it's not that, then it's simply naked evil, doing what it does.

Horrifying.

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