Conversation

I’ve seen someone trying to defend Israel by replacing any occurence of “Zionist” with “Jewish” in prominent politicians public social media posts.

I know “Zionist” can be a dog whistle for “Jewish people”, but to assume everybody indiscriminately does it implies for me that “Zionism” wouldn’t have a meaning of its own besides this dog whistle. Notwithstanding this being factually wrong, it would also make the Jewish people collectively responsible for the 1946 King David Hotel bombing and the worst bits of Israel colonization efforts and the current genocide in Gaza, which feels counter-productive to me.