# Does Israel Have a Right to Exist? A Critique of Zionism

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120563178233016528
- Source account: [@hippyygoat](https://x.com/hippyygoat)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:04
- Published: 2026-11-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism) Does Israel have a right to exist? So you think, well, okay, well, yeah, of course, Israel has a right to exist.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=4) I mean, it's a country, right? Well, no, it's not.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=7) It's a foreign settler colonial regime that was implanted there at gunpoint.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=13) And, you know, did, did this foreign group have the right to come to Palestine, which was ninety-five to ninety-seven percent non-Jewish, and not only come there as immigrants, which nobody had a problem with.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=25) The Palestinians were quite clear about this, and there had always been Jews in Palestine, and nobody bothered them.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=30) But they don't come as immigrants, they come as conquerors.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=33) They boycott the Palestinians. They destroy their economy.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=36) In 1948, they ethnically cleansed them the first time.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=39) They submit them to decades of brutal occupation.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=41) In 1967, you have another ethnic cleansing.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=44) You have then the more decades of the most brutal occupation in the world culminating in a genocide.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=50) So to me, when you say, "Does Israel have a right to exist?

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=53) Does Zionism have a right to exist?" That's the question.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=56) It's not what's your thought about Zionism.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=58) It's like, what is Zionism? What has it actually meant?

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sQbyNOLiNcnc/en/does-israel-have-a-right-to-exist-a-critique-of-zionism?t=60) And when you ask the question that way, you have to say, "No, of course not."