"Zionist" is a motte-and-bailey term. There are 2 different definitions:
1) Someone who believes the state of Israel has the right to exist
2) Someone who thinks Israel should continuously expand its borders and annex more territory
The magazine I cited is Zionist based on definition #1, but not #2. Anyone who doesn't agree with #1 is Anti-Semitic as far as I'm concerned. There really is no lobby for Type 2 Zionism in the US or UK (both govt's are consistently against further settlement building), and Corbyn earned his reputation for Anti-Semitism by being against Type 1 Zionism.
No, Corbyn has just repeatedly called those who DO say 'Israel doesn't have a right to exist" his "dear friends", and given them money and shared stages with them, and welcomed them into the Labour Party.
Israel doesn't exactly have great options for how to deal with neighbours who want to kill every Israeli they can get their hands on. When you've got your boot on the neck of a venomous snake, you pretty much have to keep it there, because if you take it off you're gonna get bitten.
The onus isn't really on Israel to make its neighbours abandon their genocidal aspirations; groups like Hezbollah and Hamas have to do that themselves. Every time anyone says "From the River to the Sea", Israel has one more reason to continue the occupation pf the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza.
Israel has the right to exist, which includes the right to self-preservation. Demanding the Israelis take their boot off the snake is demanding they allow themselves to get bitten, which they're not gonna do.
Every Western politician from Obama to Clinton to Boris Johnson has condemned Type #2 Zionism, so if there's a lobby promoting Type #2 then it's the most ineffective lobby I've ever seen.
Has Corbyn ever met a Holocaust denier or a "From the River to the Sea" zealot he didn't consider his "dear friends"?
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/the-key-questions-jeremy-corbyn-must-answer-1.68097
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jeremy-corbyn-and-hamas-no-longer-friends-but-still-brothers/
That's about the saddest attempt at spin I've ever read. "I know you are but what am I?" isn't exactly hard-hitting journalism.
I did say Halper should not have lost her job. Not voting for a politician is not the same as canceling them.
"Zionist" is a motte-and-bailey term. There are 2 different definitions:
1) Someone who believes the state of Israel has the right to exist
2) Someone who thinks Israel should continuously expand its borders and annex more territory
The magazine I cited is Zionist based on definition #1, but not #2. Anyone who doesn't agree with #1 is Anti-Semitic as far as I'm concerned. There really is no lobby for Type 2 Zionism in the US or UK (both govt's are consistently against further settlement building), and Corbyn earned his reputation for Anti-Semitism by being against Type 1 Zionism.
No, Corbyn has just repeatedly called those who DO say 'Israel doesn't have a right to exist" his "dear friends", and given them money and shared stages with them, and welcomed them into the Labour Party.
Israel doesn't exactly have great options for how to deal with neighbours who want to kill every Israeli they can get their hands on. When you've got your boot on the neck of a venomous snake, you pretty much have to keep it there, because if you take it off you're gonna get bitten.
The onus isn't really on Israel to make its neighbours abandon their genocidal aspirations; groups like Hezbollah and Hamas have to do that themselves. Every time anyone says "From the River to the Sea", Israel has one more reason to continue the occupation pf the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza.
Israel has the right to exist, which includes the right to self-preservation. Demanding the Israelis take their boot off the snake is demanding they allow themselves to get bitten, which they're not gonna do.
Every Western politician from Obama to Clinton to Boris Johnson has condemned Type #2 Zionism, so if there's a lobby promoting Type #2 then it's the most ineffective lobby I've ever seen.
https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-annexation-britain-idINKBN2424XL
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-idUSKBN14U2JX