• NewDark@lemmings.world
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      1 day ago

      You can be a critic of Israel and still be a zionist. That’s kind of exactly what a liberal zionist is.

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        23 hours ago

        You can also be Jewish without being Zionist.

        And I haven’t even addressed the “liberal” claim, which is absolutely laughable. Sanders has been a socialist since the 70’s. I understand that he looks further left from a US perspective than a global one, but the only people who would call him a “liberal” are the far-right US idiots who don’t know what that word means.

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          16 hours ago

          I very specifically mean he is a “liberal zionist” as a complete thought. Obviously being Jewish and a Zionist are different concepts, but there’s obviously overlap. He does want to continue the ethnostate as a way to protect jews after the holocaust, just less violently with more civil rights.

          In general I agree he is a socialist with some liberal tendencies likely as an outcome of being a US politician.