Ilhan Omar compares the boycott of Israel to boycott of Nazis and USSR

[Vittorio]

If you were a thoroughgoing nationalist, you'd probably be inclined to agree with her.

Israel is an ethnostate which strictly enforces an ethnic hierarchy through State intervention in its society. In this it is distinguishable from Germany between the wars only in degree.

[Vittorio]

Aaaaaand just when she had a tide of public sympathy in her favor, she pulls this.  From a strategic standpoint, she may be a worse politician than Trump.

Assuming she has any interest in evangelizing an anti-Zionist perspective, this is almost the ideal time to do it, while she's riding a crest of sympathy. I guarantee you that this will strengthen the BDS movement, though in relative rather than absolute terms.

[Vittorio]

She is mostly right, but the boycott of Israel is legitimate whereas boycotting the USSR was not.

Here's a living breathing argument as to why Zionism is Necessary.

Is Rohingya Nationalism Necessary?

[Vittorio]

I find it funny the same people who make excuses for, and resist all attempts to sanction Iran, also think Israel should be sanctioned

Quite so. The logical alternative is a consistent anti-nationalism.

[Vittorio]

The Young-Hegelian ideologists, in spite of their allegedly “world-shattering" statements, are the staunchest conservatives. The most recent of them have found the correct expression for their activity when they declare they are only fighting against “phrases.” They forget, however, that to these phrases they themselves are only opposing other phrases, and that they are in no way combating the real existing world when they are merely combating the phrases of this world....

[Vittorio]

Jewish identitarians are the worst.

[Vittorio]

Jewish identitarians are the worst.

Thanks for the input, Soviet knock-off Beep Boop.

Leftcom, thanks.

[Vittorio]

As somebody who's very much opposed to the Israeli policies, I can't defend this statement. Israel is not comparable with the Third Reich or the USSR.

I agree. (It's worse.)

How much does it keep you up at night that the Jews have exactly as much power to destroy you now as you do to destroy them? I bet it stings.

Not all the Jews. Just the white ones in Israel.

Israel is majority Mizrahi/Sephardic, but thanks for exposing yourself as a racist by using the WokeNaz "White Jews" line.

How does acknowledging racism make me a racist?

Edit: Also, South Africa was majority Black during apartheid. Who's in the majority means nothing.

You're literally jumping onto an argument kicked off by a goon claiming that Israel is worse than the Nazis to argue with a Jewish person.

Yeah, that person is a troll, and I'm not defending them. But my point is that Israel has not been doing a good job of protecting its nonwhite Jewish citizens.

It's complicated, because they are a refuge for many of those citizens from countries that want them dead. But they definitely need to do better.

I'll repeat:  Zionism is Necessary.

What a bizarre attempt at sloganeering.