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Beastly Boy

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1. It is amazing how many people remain willfully blind to
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 08:57 PM
Apr 14

the long and undeniable history of "Zionist" being used to signify "Jew".

The addition of "White European colonialist" to the derogatory antisemitic vocabulary is traceable directly to the overtures by the Soviet Union towards the Third World since the early 1960's. The two thinly veiled insults have become the obligatory and inseparable part of antisemitic vernacular. Not only did it find a forever home at the United Nations, it is now being enthusiastically embraced by the traditional purveyors of antisemitism - the pseudo-intellectual influencers of Old Europe some of us erroneously presumed to be a thing of the past.

I wish I had a nickel for each time I heard "I am not antisemitic, I am anti-Zionist".

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