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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 18h

Is that exactly what happened in the late 1920s/early 1930s?

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 19h

I wish that goyim would stop tokenizing anti Zionist & non Zionist Jews as the "good Jews".

Some Jews don't feel much of a connection to Israel & don't think Israel's existence matters that much to them. They have a right to believe what they wish of course but goyim need to stop tokenizing them.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 22h

Tea culture didn't exist in the UK until the British Empire imported it from China & built huge tea plantations in India, Sri Lanka, & Kenya to grow Camellia Sinesis.

Most of Britain's food & drink culture has been majorly influenced by cultures from outside of the UK.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 22h

The Young Turks regime were Turkish proto Nazis so it makes sense that Turkish nationalists don't like Israel.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 1d

I'm addressing point 2 as OP is interpreting the word "Zionism" from a culturally Christian POV.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 1d

"Anti Zionist" goyim are so willfully ignorant of the concept of Jewish peoplehood & collective Jewish history it's crazy.

They desperately want to believe that we're just proto Christian WASPs who happen to go to synagogue instead of a church.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 1d

Jew bashing is projection, always.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds about white.

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 1d

Rabbi Sacks ZT"L is rolling in his grave right now. A year before he died he wrote a book called Morality: Restoring the common good in divided times where he warned about the consequences of individualistic" I am the only one that matters" moral worldviews & the rise of moral relativism.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 1d

I understand the need for (some) gun control.

However I wish that anti gun extremists would read a book about the bravery of underground resistance movements that took up arms against the Nazis in Nazi occupied Europe.

When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 2d

It's a popular myth that the allies fought Nazi Germany in order to bring an end the Shoah & rescue European Jewry. In reality the only reason Britain & France went to war with Nazi Germany was to prevent Germany from swallowing up central Europe, which threatened their post WW1 security interests.

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 2d

Netanyahu's authoritarian leadership at home and cozying up to far right leaders on the world stage probably isn't doing much to improve Israel's reputation on the world stage. For Israel's sake & for the sake of Palestinian human rights he needs to resign from office.

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 2d

How the heck did he get an AK47 in the UK? England's gun laws are some of the strictest in the world.

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 2d

He needs to resign ASAP.

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 2d

Every neighborhood in Toronto is expensive to buy or rent real estate in. The question is, which expensive neighborhood in Toronto is the most expensive of the expensive neighborhoods?

As a young person, I wish Toronto housing was less expensive. I don't want to be forced out of this city.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 4d

The original antifa were Stalinist thugs in Weimar Germany who considered anyone who disagreed with them to be "fascists". This included other Weimar era groups opposed to far right German ultra nationalism, such as the Iron Front & the Reichsbanner movement.

In other words they were the OG tankies

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 4d

Tbh the only people who should get to be the arbiters of the definition of antifascism is the Jewish community, since we were the "rootless cosmopolitans" uniquely singled out as a target for hate by fascist & proto fascist parties & militias in the 19th & early 20th centuries.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 6d

A lot of leftists seem to believe that "racism = prejudice+ power" while simultaneously believing that Jews are disproportionately powerful & privileged compared to other minority groups.

They seem to have this idea that Jew bashing is a form of "punching up" & standing up for human rights.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 7d

African Americans, Hispanic Americans & Jewish Americans are the base of the Democratic party, not whiny Hamasnik leftists.

So tired of these entitled racist Jew bashing pricks who repeatedly try to sabotage the campaigns of Democratic politicians.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 7d

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 8d

No one says this about the Vatican even though the Catholic Church is infamously well known as an employer of child abusers.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 8d

"Anti imperialist" except when it comes to Jews & other ethnoreligious groups (Yazidis, Druze, Copts, Assyrians, Armenians, Mandaeans etc) impacted by Arab colonialism in the Levant.

Sums up the "anti imperialist" left in a nutshell.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 9d

No surprise in a country that had a Nazi themed cafe.

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Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 9d

Democracy is (at least in part) a popularity contest & certain stances on particular issues can either resonate or not resonate with average voters.

However morality is not & should not be determined by whether a certain stance on a particular issue resonates with the voter base.

Proud Jewish Liberal #savedemocracy 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦 @urbancdnjew.bsky.social · 9d

Neo Nazis and "anti Zionist" activists on the far left have a lot in common. 🧲

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