Here's part of Statement on Israel/Palestine by Scholars of Jewish Studies and Israel Studies: We also acknowledge that the Zionist movement, 'a diverse set of linked ethnonationalist ideologies, also was and is still shaped by settler colonial paradigms... 1/
...that saw land settlement as a virtuous means of solving political, economic, or cultural problems, as well as modern European Enlightenment discourses that assumed a hierarchy of civilizations... 2/
and adopted the premise that technological progress and development of an ‘underdeveloped’ territory would be an unqualified good. These paradigms, as implemented by the Zionist movement and the state of Israel in twentieth-century Palestine, have erected unjust, enduring... 3/
and unsustainable systems of Jewish supremacy, ethnonational segregation, discrimination, and violence against Palestinians that have been forcefully condemned, including by Jews, Israeli citizens, and Israeli human rights groups such as B’Tselem 4/4
so you get the whole cocktail, 'Jewish supremacy,' 'ethnonationalist ideology,' and let's not forget 'European Enlightenment discourses' - everything bad about Western civilization distilled in one people - go figure!
what Orwell describes as prose which 'consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen−house'
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