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Violet_Crumble

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3. Not sure about that...
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:01 AM
Sep 21

I've heard that they used to abuse women on buses in Jerusalem and try to force them to sit up the back of the bus. I think the anti-Zionist part of the Orthodox Jews is Neterei Karta.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/neturei-karta

I like them coz they recognise that Zionism is a very complicated thing, and that those who go 'Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism' are willfully ignoring that what exists now is political Zionism, an ugly and distorted religious and nationalist thing that relies on the dehumanization of Palestinians to thrive. I believe in Israel's right to exist just as much as I believe in Russia's right to exist, but if being appalled and disgusted with their treatment of innocent civilians makes me a hater of either, so be it.

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