Hi, Shrewd!        Login  
Shrewd'm.com 
A merry & shrewd investing community
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd
Search
Shrewd'm.com Merry shrewd investors
Search
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd


The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
Answer this questionContinue to Shrewd'mThis note won't appear again
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (111) |
Author: albaby1 SILVER
SHREWD
  😊 😞

Number: of 84361 
Subject: Re: Anti-semitism on the left
Date: 08/05/26 9:53 AM
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 8
While there has never been a shortage of antisemitism in this country, it should not be conflated with antizionism.

Well, there's an argument that "antizionism" without qualification is antisemitic. It's an argument that Jews - unique among all the peoples of the world - do not have legitimacy to want self-governance of a nation in the area to which they are indigenous. It's okay for Palestinians to want their own homeland (or the Indians or Pakistanis or Japanese or the Danes or whomever), but not Jews. Independence movements throughout history have legitimacy - or at least are not to be condemned - except for Jews.

One can certainly make specific criticism of the Israeli government, of course, without that being anti-Semitic. One can indeed make tons of criticisms of the specifics of how Zionism was implemented over the last century or more. Etc.

The term "antizionism," of course, is a disputed one. If it's being against the very idea of the Jewish people having their own state in their indigenous homeland altogether as being illegitimate, then it would certainly be antisemitic. Singling Jews out alone for that disability, while allowing it to all the other peoples of the world (including the Palestinians), is antisemitic. Criticisms of the specific historic political project by which Israel was created and has been governed would not necessarily antisemitic, but the term "antizionism" doesn't necessarily limit itself to those types of criticisms.
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
Print the post
Members reply directly to albaby1 here — and replies get answered. Reading is free; so is joining the conversation. Join Shrewd'm »
This community has written 84,309 posts about US Policy. The article-length ones it recommended most:
It's going to get worse · 33 recs · 2025
G’day Donny · 30 recs · 2026
Old Related Story · 28 recs · 2026
HCR is a national treasure · 27 recs · 2025
Fascism in America · 27 recs · 2025
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (111) |


Announcements
US Policy FAQ
Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Followed Shrewds | Open Questions | Moving a community