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.

I mean, it's a country, right? Well, no, it's not.

It's a foreign settler colonial regime that was implanted there at gunpoint.

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.

The Palestinians were quite clear about this, and there had always been Jews in Palestine, and nobody bothered them.

But they don't come as immigrants, they come as conquerors.

They boycott the Palestinians. They destroy their economy.

In 1948, they ethnically cleansed them the first time.

They submit them to decades of brutal occupation.

In 1967, you have another ethnic cleansing.

You have then the more decades of the most brutal occupation in the world culminating in a genocide.

So to me, when you say, "Does Israel have a right to exist?

Does Zionism have a right to exist?" That's the question.

It's not what's your thought about Zionism.

It's like, what is Zionism? What has it actually meant?

And when you ask the question that way, you have to say, "No, of course not."