Thunder fumbled their superteam so bad, I don’t think they will ever play 500 ball again, let alone win a chip.

This might be a bit too high minded for r/NBA, but I’m of the mind that ethnostates are bad.

Colonization and the displacement of other Palestinians to make room for an ethnostate for Jewish people, and specifically European Jews, is an explicitly stated goal in some of the first documents issued by the World Zionist Congress. The 1899 edition’s main outcome was the vote to colonize. It is inherently a bad thing to support this, and in fact, there’s concrete evidence that anti-Semites supported Zionism because they saw it as a way to kick Jews out of their home countries. That goes against your last sentence.

Deni Avdija’s dad is Kosovar

Who’s talking about removing? I want them to end their apartheid system, like in South Africa. Correct me if I’m wrong, but there are still white people in South Africa, no?

literal genocide

As opposed to what’s happening today, in the real world, in Palestine

What “leaders of the Jewish faith”?

It’s basic safe food. Any bodega in NYC will serve you something infinitely better and at a lower price.

Nice, sounds good.

It is, hebrew and Arabic are sister languages, they have a lot of similar words. You can claim that many Hebrew names or Arabic ones are stolen from eachother if all it takes is for the name to be similar to one in the other language

Colony of what country?

Just because there wasn’t a formally recognized nation of Palestine when settlers started to go there doesn’t mean it isn’t a colony.

I implore you to think for two entire seconds. Was there a “country” in America when the British first got there? Did Africa have legally recognized “countries” when it got divided up amongst european empires? No. But those were still colonies, because there were already people on that land.

The only way you could not understand this is if you had simply never thought about it. Either that, or you are aware of this and you’re arguing in bad faith. So, you’re either ignorant or a full on supporter of colonialism.

it’s a country with 2 enclaves under various degrees of military scrutiny and control

Palestinians live in two gigantic outdoor prisons under constant military surveillance. They cannot vote in Israeli elections despite nominally living in the same state as Israeli citizens. The IDF violently suppresses any attempt to protest, peaceful or no. They simply do not have the same rights as Israelis do. That is an apartheid state.

as a result of decades of attacks

First, that’s a flatly false characterization. It’s not like the Palestinians had rights in Israel and then had them taken away because of various terrorist attacks. They’ve never had rights there.

Second, even if that were the case, that does not justify apartheid. The entire point is that apartheid is never justified. It does not matter what reasons Israel may claim for it, it is never justifiable. If you want to defend Israel, you have to defend the concept of apartheid. Which I would love to see you try to do.

I’m sorry but you’re creating a gargantuan false equivalency if you think “suicide bombers and kidnappings” is the same as “the systematic removal of people from their lands, bombing of critical infrastructure, needless killing of thousands of children, not allowing aid to enter the area, etc, etc”

I’m not getting into this because it’s a Sunday morning

But if you’re big takeaway from this is “the Palestinians started this and the Israeli’s are equally shitty for being bad back” then you need to go learn more about the history of the region

Yeah that’s cause there’s thing called reproducing.

Two things can happen at once

This has nothing to do with Zionism, wtf are you even on about.

Still waiting for the criticism. Go ahead I’ll wait.