Alright, but why do you permit the word Zionist but not Israel?

So you’re suggesting the headline should read:

Yemen declares air blockade against Palestine

Obviously that’s absurd – Israel is not the wrong name for Palestine. You don’t have to recognize Israel as a legitimate state to see these are different concepts. You don’t even have to believe it exists to see that’s absurd. Though of course, it does exist – Israel is a real, actual settler colony that is illegitimately occupying Palestine.

We refer to non-real things without quotes all the time, e.g. magic, not ‘“magic”.’

It’s odd that it’s in quotes in only 2 places in the article, and otherwise not in quotes.

Idk, it bugs me on the grounds that e.g. Palestine is not referred to with quotes by other countries. But if the quotes are helping, I guess it’s worth the inconsistency.

Why is Israel in quotes? Is it surprising that Yemen referred to it as Israel and not by some other name?

I have honestly no clue what you’re talking about for the first one. I’m saying that dismantling Israel does not require the removal of the people who live there.

every fascist accusation is a confession

That sounds like the fallacy of the thought-terminating cliché. And it would apply equally well to you. I actually can’t imagine how you think saying that as part of an accusation would ever go well. Anyway you don’t need to convince me of Israel’s crimes.

You may have misunderstood something. Dismantling Israel doesn’t mean sending the population “home.”

It’s fucked up of settler governments to use people as human shields and weapons like that

This kind of argument smells bad to me. This is exactly the justification Israel is using for its genocide in Gaza.

that’s true :)

I read that, but how does that relate to the name?

this is just completely fucked up.

As far as I know, there’s fundamentally no particular moral imperative not to buy Tesla – except for Musk. They should chuck him.

He already didn’t let Carney hear the end of it - “Carney, who was not elected…”

I literally don’t understand how renaming “Victory in Europe” day to “Victory Day for World War Two” downplays the role of allied forces. Also, what are they calling VP day now?

The point top-level comment was making is that “VE” day clarifies that the fight continued on after the defeat of the Nazis.

50% of the population of Gaza is minors, never forget this. Any mass killing of Gazans is a mass killing of children.

protest?

a) I don’t think the people who want to improve Israel should be the ones to GO HOME

b) half of Israelis were born there. I don’t believe anyone should be forced to leave the place they were born.

The paradox of tolerance isn’t a helpful answer here. Banning the party won’t make the bigots within it become unbigotted, which is the real goal.

NDP and Conservative leaders lost their own ridings.

Ah. I’m not especially upset or anything, I am just trying to explain the difference in terminology.