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How do you people propose to call them? Expansionists? Colonialists? Genocidists?

They already banned a swathe of pro-palestinian political streamers in the run up to the US election, so this is likely retroactive reasoning.

Waiting for the free-speech absolutists to boycott twitch for this (they won't)

I really don't like the censorship of speech from either side. People have a right to choose their own words and suffer the consequences for the words they choose.

They probably don't like zionazi either. Neither this nor zionist is a code word for Jew. The entire political class, the great majority being Christian, and their donors are zionist, because going with the flow of AIPAC is path to get your candidates to also serve your oligarchist or Christofascist protections.

Netanyahuists or likudists or Mossadists or Epsteinists ok?

BTW, Chuck Shumer is going to allow a vote in Senate over this "criticism of zionism is anti semitic" law in US. Reddit also supports mods who recomend permabans over criticism of zionism already.

Okay, now streamers can get more creative when refering to a zionist. I think that 'bibi's removed' is a good term.

The same way I don't think we should capitulate to framing "cracker" as a slur, or to framing "black lives matter" as a racist thing to say, I don't think we should capitulate to framing things like "from the river to the sea" or "zionist" as antisemitic.

But, as a thought experiment, let's indulge in this doublespeak trash. What is a good alternative? So far I've got:

• Israeli colonizers
• Jewish supremacists
• genocidal sacks of shit
• Israeli apartheidists
• Isreal expansionists
• Israeli warmongerers
• people in favor of the genocide and apartheid committed by Israel (in full, every time you need to say zionist)
• modern day nazis
• zionazis (technically not zionist!)

So all of this liberal crybaby nomenclature trash aside, I actually do think "zionist" is in itself a fairly useless term for the Israeli apartheid question (as Norman Finkelstein and Judith Butler do too). While one faction of zionism pursued the nakba and massacres from fairly early on, and while this faction has been quite successful, there are other notions of zionism which do not entail murdering children or colonizing a country. When Netanyahu and Chomsky can both legitimately refer to themselves as zionists, I think it's clear that zionism is too broad a term to be useful in the current ongoing genocide and the ethnic cleansing that has been going on for the better part of a century.

Calling zionism what it is shouldn't be discouraged with dog whistles masquerading as conduct policies.

At the same time I'd like to remind folks that not all Jewish people subscribe to Zionism.

There are a couple Jewish lead organizations that fight for the freedom of Palestine and have been very critical of Israel for many years.

Jewish Voices for Peace is one group. I wonder how they'd feel about Twitches new policy. I'm genuinely curious what their opinion would be.

Edit - corrected Jewish Voices for Peace

How about "genocidal assholes?" Can they still say that?

Next, "apartheid" will be anti-Semitic.

But Zionism isn't a religion, it's a nationalist movement.

Hey everybody has a right to a racist ethnostate how dare people criticize the idea.

Do a lot of slurs have a wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_Zionism

"How dare you use a word that means 'genocidal, imperialist, apartheid, ethnostate' in a way that explicitly means 'genocidal, imperialist, apartheid, ethnostate'!" - Twitch, active supporters and enablers of genocidal, imperialist, apartheid ethnostates.

Zionists really captured that platform.

Never used it and never will, but maybe we can make Twitch become a slur?

It's great how people are gathering and having discussions under heavily censored platforms owned by billionaries, just amazing.

Can we make Twitch a slur for terrible tech companies.

sooo twitch declares the Zionist movement offensive? and should only discussed in sn academic sense? /s

wow twitch, very brave!!

Good thing I'm an anti-zionist then I suppose.

OK, so people can use the definition instead. In fact it might be more useful.

I'm willing to get this will increase the amount of actual ethnic slurs.

Friendly reminder that selfhosted streaming exists (Owncast) or online alternatives like PeerTube.