wow looking forward to the #discourse next year
It’s already started! Not 5 minutes after she won, the usual antisemitic (mainly leftwing corbynite, some rightwing fash-y, ofc, in case you wondered) types have come crawling out of the woodwork to cry about how “Israel shouldn’t exist as a country, yadda yadda, surely this is the one country to have ever had a fractious domestic political system, how could the european public vote to crown a …you know. You know what she is.
Jewish– no wait I meant Zionist. That’ll cover it. I’m totally motivated by care for random Palestinians and not because I’m a giant piece of trash. Israel’s not even in Europe* anyway.”If I wasn’t already supporting her because of her song, I’d be supporting her out of spite because it’s upset the racists…
*(The answer to the last question is – because if you knew your Eurovision history you’d know it was because Israel is a founder member of the EBU, you fake Eurovision fans.)
I literally just saw someone say that they objected to Israel “as a concept” when Israel “as a concept” is literally the least objectionable version of Israel. The concept of Israel is “we have a minority that has been subjected to centuries of violence and oppression and less than 5 years ago was very nearly wiped out in Europe so let’s give them some land in their historic homeland and let them take control of their own lives”.
That is the concept of Israel. Sure there’s a lot of stuff you can say about the reality of Israel but the CONCEPT of Israel surely is debate free?
But no. “I object to the concept of Israel”. Well sorry love you’re just a straight up anti-Semite. There’s no other way to say it.
At least if they’re saying that outright, they do in fact know what “anti-Zionist” means. Many of the people who call themselves that and claim it acquits them of antisemitism don’t seem to know.
Loki is the Philosopher King 