• uberdonut@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    First thought that goes through my mind is: Chomsky is critical of Israel so the zionist troll army goes all in on this story to distract from bigger targets.

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        I was deeply interested in … Zionist affairs and activities – or what was then called ‘Zionist,’ though the same ideas and concerns are now called ‘anti-Zionist.’ I was interested in socialist, binationalist options for Palestine, and in the kibbutzim and the whole cooperative labor system that had developed in the Jewish settlement there (the Yishuv) … The vague ideas I had at the time [1947] were to go to Palestine, perhaps to a kibbutz, to try to become involved in efforts at Arab-Jewish cooperation within a socialist framework, opposed to the deeply antidemocratic concept of a Jewish state (a position that was considered well within the mainstream of Zionism)

        Quote from Chomsky, on wiki

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          “I wanted to do kumbaya with genocidal ethno surpremacists instead of siding with the colonized but then didn’t”

          Notice how you didn’t post the BDS part.