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  • I didn’t want to introduce religion by doing that comparison. I just wanted to point out that there are different types of Zionism as there are different types of Islamism. Some are oppressive and/or used to oppress while some are not. But generalizing is simply false.

    For one there are multiple types of Zionism and historically Socialist Zionism was long the popular type. But recently unfortunately Religious and Revisionist Zionism gained popularity under Netanjahu. And Israel’s government want people to think that they are the “true” Zionists, but that is not true. Opposing Netanjahu and supporting Zionism is not contradictory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_Zionism

    Regarding your definition of Nazism and Facism, I think while Israel is becoming more and more authoritarian and it’s government is obviously right-wing it still doesn’t qualify as Nazism or Facism. If you like it or not Israel is still a (failing) democracy and there are Arab minorities living in Israel and are represented in the Knesset. I think it takes more to call Israel fascist, like a totalitarian dictatorship for example.

    And just to be sure, I heavily condemn the genocide and famine happening in Gaza and by no means do I want to excuse anything the Israeli government is doing. I just want to stand in for a differentiated view on Zionism as it’s a very important and heterogeneous philosophy in Judaism. And furthermore I don’t think overly simplified images of an enemy are helpful for anybody.