'We will repeat October 7 again and again' - Hamas official

[hedda_foil]

65. Israel has a far right government. Zionism used in this context tars an entire nation.

Netanyahu and his government are MAGA types. A majority of Israeli citizens voted against his Likud party in the past five or six elections. Several times he was unable to form a government and the country repeatedly went back to the polls to vote against Likud. He finally teamed up with several even fringier right wing parties to form a parliamentary majority and has been trying to tie the hands of their supreme court ever since (to keep him out of jail). Israelis were protesting en masse every week since and Hamas used that period of time to plan a massacre of civilians. BTW, Israelis who live in kibbutzes, such as those attacked on October 7, tend to vote against Likud.

Zionism refers to a 19th-early 20th Century left-wing European Jewish movement to leave the countries where they were often subject to antisemitic pogroms (which were similar in execution to the 10/7 attacks) to found a state in the traditional land of Israel.

Attacking so-called Zionists as the evil enemy is profoundly anti-Semitic. Period. It lumps all Jews who believe Israel has a right to exist into an evil "other."

I believe the choices of the Likud government of Israel are making in trapping and bombing the people of Gaza are horrifyingly wrong. But you have -- knowingly or not -- placed their reaction in a highly antisemitic and inflammatory context.