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Lurking Dem
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Wed Oct-29-03 03:41 PM
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but you seem to be making a rather classical error.
Because you have an opinion that Zionism can be defined as X and your own criticism of the Government of Israel or actions by the IDF is simply that and not an expression of anti-Semitism, you assume that others who state the same things hold the same defintion of Zionism that you do.
You are mistaken.
I have been a victim of anti-Semitism here in the US, so have my husband and son. It exists. It is real. And it is sometimes dangerous (like the guy they arrested here in Nashville pointing an assault rifle at the kids in the Jewish daycare).
You are using Zionism to refer to Israeli expansionism. Many on the Left do that under the mistaken assumption they are being descriptive rather than confusing. Don't assume that everyone who uses the term defines it the same way you do or feels the same way about Jews that you do.
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