Anti-Zionism does not equal Anti-Semitism

[billy elgin]

Sean, 
So I take it that the decisive factor in criticizing Israeli imperialism 
is that it receives such a large amount of aid from the U.S. which 
enables it to keep on oppressing the Palestinians (and? invade Lebanon).  
Part of my problem is that I havent read enough about the history of the 
region to compare corrupt Zionists with corrupt Arab nationalists.


>From what I've heard and read (Shahak, Ha-Levi, Chomsky) Israel has 
played a pretty reactionary role in the world.  Eg exporting South 
African goods during the 80s, exporting guns to the Guatemalan military.

Personally, the religious/racist exclusion of who is a jew/law of return 
(being half jewish on my father's side)pisses me off and I think that 
the Zionist use of religios/ethnic criteria in oppressing Palestinians 
is despicable, but I do remember being fingerprinted when I lived in 
Japan because I was a foreigner and I do remember that Korean-Japanese 
that had lived in Japan for three generations (most of their forebears 
having been brought to Japan as slave laborers) were still not 
considered Japanese, legally or otherwise. Up unitl 1991 I believe third 
generation Korean-Japanese were still being fingerprinted.  They also 
faced job discrimination. Korean-Japanese were also fairly segregated 
from what I remember, so I assume that there is de facto housing 
discrimination although I dont know what Japanese law says about that.

I also remember a number of racist/fascist bastards (many of whom are in 
the LDP) who if someone had shot them I would not have been unhappy.

Alex

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