Joe Brunoli
2 min readMay 1, 2024

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Well, that was certainly a cascading gush of Gish Gallop propaganda. Let;s see. Where to begin?

Firstly kudos to you that the history of Palestine revolves around malaria, which caused the land to be inhospitable until the Zionists came. That is new. I had never heard that particular bit of hasbara revisionism before. Good for you, you get points for creativity.

Secondly, you have completely missed the point of my article. I do not dispute the fact that the South Africans and the Zionists have different histories. For that matter, so do the Americans, the Australians and the New Zealanders. But all of those societies were settler colonialists, who buot their country by stealing the land from the indigenous population. Surely that is clear and irrefutable.

The point is that Apartheid is Apartheid. It doesn't matter where the dominant cohort came from; it only matters that there is one part of society that enjoys privileges and rights, and another cohort that does not. That was certainly the case in South Africa. ~And that is certainly the case in Israel, according to the United Nations and rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

You assert that "Islarmist [sic] Extremism is the cause of all the trouble in the region. You seem to believe that all of human history started in 1948. The fact is that prior to the arrival of the Zionists in Palestine, there was no "Islamic Extremism". What you call Islamic Extremism is simply a general "Resistance Movement" mobilised against the Zionist state of Israel and its expulsion, displacement, dispossession and extermination of the Arab people in Palestine.

Furthermore, you say that these extremists are led by

"Palestinian activists, loyal to Hamas ideology". Again, Hamas did not exist until the 1980's. Are you saying that everything was copacetic until then?

Finally, you make the typical, hackneyed, worn out argument of conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. This is a canard.

Let me explain:

I am an anti-Zionist.

I am an American.

There are 6 million Jews in America, of whom 58% are Zionists.

That means there are 3.5 million Jewish Zionists in America.

But there are 30 million Christian Zionists in America.

That means that 90% of the Zionists in America are Christian - not Jewish.

If I oppose a group that is 90% Christian and only 10% Jewish, how can you call me anti-Semitic?

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Joe Brunoli
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