Reposted by Martin Byrne
There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland.
The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people.
Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians".
It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!
![A screenshot from the Oxford English Dictionary defining the world genocide:
"genocide /ˈdʒɛnəsʌɪd /
▸ noun [mass noun] the deliberate and systematic killing or persecution of a large number of people from a particular national or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group: a campaign of genocide [count noun] news of genocides went unreported.
▸ verb [with object] deliberately and systematically kill or persecute (a large number of people from a particular national or ethnic group) with the aim of destroying that nation or group: a whole generation is being genocided.
– ORIGIN 1940s (coined by the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin with reference to the Holocaust): from Greek genos ‘race’ + -cide."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mjrt3m6sr6fd3suunvav33eq/bafkreihc6uk5rxdpxesissndzjnf5l3ictfmbfb3pc57sfgmbriv3uefqa)
