▲ 895 ▼ Jewish Leaders Call for Boycott After Elon Musk's Nazi Salute, Holocaust Jokes (futurism.com) submitted 2 years ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world 132 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54702117
[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children) You’re right, it isn’t! Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. In fact, I’m pretty sure it is in direct OPPOSITION to Judaism, if you follow the fundamentals. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago For a religion this old, you will find a lot of people with different ideas about the "fundamentals". There is a lot of Jewish scholars that reject Zionism and in particular in the beginning of the Zionist movement it was strongly opposed by religious scholars. They had to work quite extensively to create a "new understanding" of how to mix Zionism with Judaism, which over the time led to there now being particularly extreme Zionists, who claim to base it off of Judaism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism#Early_Jewish_anti-Zionism permalink fedilink source parent [–] bigFab@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Help me understand your point, pls. I wasn't talking about zionism nor judaism. Plain nazism. Which killed millions of jews, equalling antisemitism. Especially nowadays when any statement is lightly attributed to antisemitism, a nazi salute could qualify as? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago For a religion this old, you will find a lot of people with different ideas about the "fundamentals". There is a lot of Jewish scholars that reject Zionism and in particular in the beginning of the Zionist movement it was strongly opposed by religious scholars. They had to work quite extensively to create a "new understanding" of how to mix Zionism with Judaism, which over the time led to there now being particularly extreme Zionists, who claim to base it off of Judaism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism#Early_Jewish_anti-Zionism permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Help me understand your point, pls. I wasn't talking about zionism nor judaism. Plain nazism. Which killed millions of jews, equalling antisemitism. Especially nowadays when any statement is lightly attributed to antisemitism, a nazi salute could qualify as? permalink fedilink source parent