The same way I don’t think we should capitulate to framing “cracker” as a slur, or to framing “black lives matter” as a racist thing to say, I don’t think we should capitulate to framing things like “from the river to the sea” or “zionist” as antisemitic.
But, as a thought experiment, let’s indulge in this doublespeak trash. What is a good alternative? So far I’ve got:
- Israeli colonizers
- Jewish supremacists
- genocidal sacks of shit
- Israeli apartheidists
- Isreal expansionists
- Israeli warmongerers
- people in favor of the genocide and apartheid committed by Israel (in full, every time you need to say zionist)
- modern day nazis
- zionazis (technically not zionist!)
So all of this liberal crybaby nomenclature trash aside, I actually do think “zionist” is in itself a fairly useless term for the Israeli apartheid question (as Norman Finkelstein and Judith Butler do too). While one faction of zionism pursued the nakba and massacres from fairly early on, and while this faction has been quite successful, there are other notions of zionism which do not entail murdering children or colonizing a country. When Netanyahu and Chomsky can both legitimately refer to themselves as zionists, I think it’s clear that zionism is too broad a term to be useful in the current ongoing genocide and the ethnic cleansing that has been going on for the better part of a century.
Izan - Nazi backwards Iz A Nazi or IzrAeli Nazi
These are indeed very good alternatives
I’m partial to three, m’self.
Zionists really captured that platform.
How do you people propose to call them? Expansionists? Colonialists? Genocidists?
Israeli supremacists
Waiting for the free-speech absolutists to boycott twitch for this (they won’t)
They already banned a swathe of pro-palestinian political streamers in the run up to the US election, so this is likely retroactive reasoning.
How about “genocidal assholes?” Can they still say that?
Can we make Twitch a slur for terrible tech companies.
All tech companies eventually enshitify and we would never be able to remember all of them if they all became slurs. Lol
Do a lot of slurs have a wikipedia page?
But Zionism isn’t a religion, it’s a nationalist movement.
Okay, now streamers can get more creative when refering to a zionist. I think that ‘bibi’s removed’ is a good term.
I’m willing to get this will increase the amount of actual ethnic slurs.
I really don’t like the censorship of speech from either side. People have a right to choose their own words and suffer the consequences for the words they choose.
sooo twitch declares the Zionist movement offensive? and should only discussed in sn academic sense? /s
wow twitch, very brave!!
Ethan and Hila Klein are filthy Zionists.
“How dare you use a word that means ‘genocidal, imperialist, apartheid, ethnostate’ in a way that explicitly means ‘genocidal, imperialist, apartheid, ethnostate’!” - Twitch, active supporters and enablers of genocidal, imperialist, apartheid ethnostates.
