This is such a fascinating thread. This person, neither Jew nor Zionist, claims that others don't know what Zionism is. As evidence, she then cites several Palestinian anti-Zionist voices explaining the same thing in the exact same words. Since all these identical non-us voices say the same thing about us, she seems to believe she's now proven that she truly and fully understands us. They shrink our entire society, history and culture down to a villainous ideological cartoon and then accuse us of being cartoon villain. And they think it's a clever move. And when they still, generation after generation, fail to dislodge us as their ideologues keep promising they will, they never look up from the cartoon and wonder if there's something about us they might be missing. I don't think you know what Zionism is, Nerdeen. In fact, I think your whole exercise of "knowing what Zionism is" is actually a refusal to seriously understand us, our complexity, our history, our motivations and predicaments. I think you hope that if you refuse to see us as a full, complex human society, we will somehow not be one, that our existence somehow depends on your moral permission, and thus that through your purposeful ignorance, history may yet be reversed. This approach to us has always failed you. It will fail you this time too. Our identity and story do not need your approval to be valid, anymore than yours do mine. When you put away these childish bigotries and make an honest attempt to actually understand our story, you might actually do something useful for the Palestinian future.
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