If you don't think that Zionist spaces--even and especially liberal uwu smol bean Zionist spaces--are absolutely rife with anti-Arabism and Islamophobia,
please consider that might be because anti-Arabism and Islamophobia have been normalized for you all your life to the point where you don't even notice them.
Please listen to Arabs and Muslims who point it out.
The major way that liberal zionists perpetuate anti-Arabism and Islamophobia is by normalizing and invisiblising the violence inherent in the status quo.
Talking about Israel and Palestine as if they were parties on an equal footing, with equal power.
Refusing to name genocide for what it is and insisting that ~~the situation~~ is something people can reasonably debate. Like it's an intellectual exercise and not the violent subjugation and elimination of a people.
Israel is a genocidal Apartheid state and to pretend otherwise is to become complicit in the violence it inflicts.
I agree, but also an equally insidious aspect is lending credence to "soft zionism" by engaging with or validating their feelings.
This to me, is just as bad because it often uses progressive language to blur the lines between ideologies and actions — for people who use vague words in times when preciseness is needed, promoting certain talking points when they have very little relevance to the issue at hand — they fully understand what they're doing by distracting and equivocating but when you point it out, the topic is changed or shifted beyond what is actually needing to be discussed.
Liberal zionists are quite good at this, they always talk around the issue (ie: genocide/colonization) and very rarely touch on the actual issue — when they do, it rarely is from the perspective of actually engaging with narratives they're not willing to examine with and instead only about things they personally feel comfortable sharing/disseminating.
