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  1. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    To anyone reading who has any questions about anything I have written, or wishes to pursue a healthy and informed conversation regarding these topics, please let me know. Constantly pointing out one person's ignorance and errors gets boring. If that person wishes to continue spouting untruths...
  2. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    oh, so admiring anything is idolatry? LOL. You wrote "idolatry, in Judaism and Christianity, the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. " or did you forget that YOU wrote that.
  3. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    I note that the quote you present never mentions anything about worshiping the city as if it was God. So you fail. Again...
  4. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    I don't recall saying "only." Plenty of people know what idolatry is. You just aren't one of them.
  5. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    you don't know what idolatry is and know nothing of the holy of holies.
  6. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    there is a whole lot to cover so I might just find good resources and not try to reinvent the wheel. Judaism sees the site of the temple mount as a locus of spirituality. It is the site from which the world was created, the site of the binding of Isaac and the site of the holy of holies in the...
  7. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    Facts don't look for popularity. Actually, England allowed the people in the region to set up governments. Israel did. Arabs didn't. Are you going to keep guessing dumb things? Nothing like me. For example, I'm educated. No, that isn't actually true. But because you know nothing of Judaism...
  8. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    Zion is a whole lot more than that. No, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. The UN voted to recognize Israel. It didn't create Israel. You need to learn history. You just prefer to speak from ignorance. Got it. Note that it says "fears of violence" and the article doesn't substantiate any...
  9. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    that doesn't change anything. There are many instances of the phrase but that doesn't change the meaning of the term. Jeruslaem is Israel, in fact it is the capital of Israel and it allows the waqf to manage certain sites https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jerusalem-islamic-waqf Wow, you...
  10. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    You must have forgotten that you wrote " the actual term is about zion (the fortress/the mount)" But the actual term isn't. While the word is used to refer to a variety of objects and places, that doesn't make every one of those things what the term zionism is about. we have plans and...
  11. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    No, the actual term is about the concept of Tziyon (transliterated into "Zion") but that isn't a fortress or a mount. If you are talking about the temple mount, Israel handed control of it over to the waqf a long time ago.
  12. rosends

    Jews are the smartest people

    we do? I don't recall ever doing that. So a re we really? Or are you just trying to convince yourself that we do?
  13. rosends

    Are you a Zionist

    for the concept of Zionism, it isn't as much about the capital as it is about the actual name of the movement because there are so many kinds of Zionism. Modern, political Zionism might be said to have a lesser connection to Judaism (not none, though) but certain types of Zionism are synonymous...
  14. rosends

    January isn't New Year

    actually, according to Judaism there are 4 different "new years".
  15. rosends

    Jews are the smartest people

    clearly, it is Israel's fault. And the Jewish lobby that controls the prizes. All that Jewish influence...
  16. rosends

    Antisemitism and free speech on college campus

    No, I'm saying that an answer of "it depends on context" is useless because that's a truth about all communication. In this case, the context that the presidents indicated might exist is that calling for genocide could be acceptable. While the words might be context dependent, there are limits...
  17. rosends

    Antisemitism and free speech on college campus

    I really wish you had read the rest of what I posted (to wit, "So saying "depends on context" is fine, but deciding that that context can allow sincere mass calls for violence is wrong. "). The problem I was commenting on was that "depends on context" is a valueless answer because it is...
  18. rosends

    Antisemitism and free speech on college campus

    It isn't about "calling for genocide" it is about the use of the phrase. If I am at a conference and we are discussing political slogans, and I show a video in which people are demonstrating, using that phrase, the context, as an academic discussion, makes the iteration of the words less...
  19. rosends

    Antisemitism and free speech on college campus

    Really?
  20. rosends

    Antisemitism and free speech on college campus

    I am most annoyed that the presidents answered "it depends on context" but not because I think that that is wrong. I know it is right -- everything we say acquires meaning based on context, so "duh" of course it depends on context. If I am using it as dialogue in a short story, that's one thing...
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