On 06/12/2007, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote:
Oldak, this is the mailing list of Commons. This is not a political mailing list. Beside the fact that you views of Zionism are simplistic and wrong, it is not the emotions of Zionists that we want to keep out of here, but the emotions of *all* politically-driven people. Be they tenants of the Israeli right-wing and far-right-wing, or their opponents.
I suggested we avoid emotive terms such as "anti-Semite" which would just confuse this discussion. The term is lightly thrown around in some discussions - I don't see how anything I said was over-simplistic or wrong.
Zionism is racist (any hope or ideology based around a racial state is racist) and confusing the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a common tactic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_and_racism_allegations). I only bring up these points, because they are relevant to the discussion.