• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    If “almost every major Jewish organisation in the UK (the board of deputies and the Jewish leadership council for two) is explicitly Zionist” then they are Racist.

    (Mind you, it’s not exactly a shocker that Tory aligned organizations - which most of those are - are racist)

    Not pointing it out because of nothing other than their ethnicity is itself Racism: treating people and groups of people differently because of their ethnicity is the very definition of Racial Descrimination.

    Racists Jews are Racist, just like Racist Whites are Racist, Racist Blacks are Racist and so on - the actions and the words of a person are what makes them a Racist, and only other Racists would think their ethnicity is relevant in any way form or shape.

    So essentially you’re making the case for the Green Party to be unprincipled and practice racial discrimination in order to not be called “racist” by the very people who are so extremely racist that they’re supremacists.

    That’s similar to in the 1930 not calling NAZIs racist in order to not have the German diaspora in Britain say you’re “against the Arian race”.

    Whichever way you go you lose, so better go down the route of sticking to your principles and not actually act in a racial discriminating way just to soothe people who are rabidly racist and who, no mater what you do, hate your guts because you’re a left-winger whilst they themselves are far-right.

    (Pandering to them because you fear their words is strategically idiotic because that’s just giving your ideological enemies the tools to control your own speech, which what here in Portugal I saw sink the small left-wing party I was in when the leadership started “moderating” what they said in response to accusations of being “extreme left” from the mainstream parties with subsequently a crash in the votes the party got with part of the vote just disappearing and another part going to other left-wing parties).

    If indeed you want to make sure that nobody can confuse the Green Party’s principled stand against supremacist ideologies (any supremacist ideology, not just Zionism) with racism against the ethnicity that ideology claims to represent (which in this case is an interpretation those Tory-aligned Jewish organizations will try hard to push) how about openly supporting organizations from that ethnicity which are against that ideology, such as in this case Jews For Peace?!