The entire claim remains on a fraudulent premise — that Judea is to the Jews as France is to the French or Italy is to the Italians.
That premise is false.
Categorically false.
France is the state of French citizens.
Italy is the state of Italian citizens.
Israel is the state of Israeli citizens — not of Jews worldwide.
Jews are not a nationality attached to a sovereign state.
They are a group of people dispersed across many countries, holding many citizenships.
Most Jews are not Israeli.
They don't vote in Israel.
They do not live under Israeli law.
They owe Israel no political allegiance.
Zionism survives by erasing that distinction.
It trains people to hear “Israel” and think “the Jews,” because without that conflation the argument collapses.
And this conflation is not accidental.
It is foundational to the ideology.
But that linkage is profoundly anti-Semitic.
To say Israel is “the state of the Jews” is to revive the oldest anti-Semitic accusation: that Jews everywhere are politically bound to a foreign country.
My country is the United States.
Israel is the country of Israelis.
Anyone who insists otherwise is redefining Jews as foreigners in their own countries.
Only two ideologies insist that Israel is “the state of all Jews”:
anti-Semitism — and Zionism.
And “anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism” is a lie.
It is a necessary link to protect that conflation.
@markb1979@redgewd It was already triggered. It was £1m per season Arsenal qualified for Champions league so long as Declan plays 60%+ of the games in the season. So they’ve paid £2m, will pay £1m this summer and will pay the remaining £2m over the next two years
Karren Brady’s promise of “a world-class team in a world-class stadium” rings even more hollow now. West Ham United should never have moved to a soulless public athletics track. Great move for the board but not for the fans. Leaving Upton Park made sense for commercial reasons but not sporting/atmosphere.
Daniel Levy was right. The Olympic Stadium should have been knocked down and a proper football stadium built there. It is a good site. But the Olympic lobby and politicians got all protective and precious about the 2012 legacy. How often does this country need a huge athletics arena anyway?
Yes, West Ham won a European trophy since they’ve left Upton Park. But London Stadium was always a problem, always a passion-killer, fans distant from the ones they love, the players, and limited potential for increased revenue streams.
Other reasons behind club’s demise. Lack of leadership in the boardroom. Recruitment an issue, too. What a mess. Record losses, fears over future of Fernandes, Summerville and Nuno, intensified protests against chairman Sullivan.
Relegation likely. Two points adrift of safety following 3-1 defeat to Newcastle. Wretched goal difference (-22) compared to Spurs’ (-9). Spurs need only a point from Chelsea away (hard) or David Moyes’ Everton at home to guarantee survival and condemn West Ham. Can Moyes do West Ham a favour? The club who let him go. West Ham need to beat ex-Spur Joe Rodon and Leeds at home anyway.
West Ham look doomed to the drop. They will return but need better ownership. And many of their fans have been warning of this perfect storm for some time. #WHUFC
@danwoff98@rajsinghchohan@WestHam_Central Agree, Arnie was technically most gifted than he received credit for. Good on both feet, fast, very strong, aggressive, direct, decent in the air and had an eye for goal. Shame his attitude was his biggest draw back as the raw attributes were all there
Hi @elonmusk I once again ask you to please unlock all comment sections of political figures
This goes against our democratic right to respond to their nonsense directly, and take part in discourse
Political figures that turn off comments are scared of the people who pay them, what do they have to be afraid of?
West Ham feels like a club in genuine crisis to me. To many on the outside, they see Premier League football, a big stadium and a recent European trophy and think it’s all just whinging but so many of their fans feel totally disconnected with their club.
Long-term season ticket holders are giving up their seats year on year, they despise the ownership, hate the stadium they play in, have had to fight tooth and nail to keep things like concession prices in place and worst of all, can’t see a logical way out of the mess they find themselves in. It’s a club which many of their fans feel is willingly forging a path away from the core support which has stuck with them for generations.
Yes, the headlines are regularly dominated by the team’s struggles under Graham Potter in the here and now but the sense of frustration the vast majority of that fan-base feel runs so much deeper than the 9 months he’s been in charge.
@grok@NoContextHumans So you can’t say for sure any of them have viewed my page or posts? You’re just assuming they may have because we follow the same accounts?