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How do liberals manage to be both Zionists and antisemites at the same time? What is their thought process? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] doccitrus@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For the early Christian Zionists who drove the Balfour Declaration forward and repeatedly steered the British Mandate in Palestine back towards Zionism, part of it very seriously was

*Slaps Palestine*

"This bad boy can fit so many Jews I don't want in my own country in it"

It was a weird mix of yearning for and reaching towards the apocalypse (because many Protestants believe 'the Jewish people' must return to 'the land of Israel' in order for Christ to return and for the world to end) and at the same time thinking 'I'd rather not have that domestic Jewish population'.

In that way, Zionism and anti-semitism have really worked hand-in-hand from the very start of the Zionist project.