Just recently, I got banned from Lemmy.ml because they thought I was “trolling” using an LLM. Let me clarify to any Lemmy.ml mods reading this that I’m not using an LLM for my comments. I am a human being who actually has autism which is why I type like this.
Sometimes I post so much so fast that I get a “too many requests” error before I get to post the next comment - in these cases, that’s my cue to cool down for a bit, and then post my comments from my “queue” (I leave the comments unposted until I post them) after a certain period of time.
I just submitted a message like this on the Lemmy Matrix chat (through Cinny - pretty good software) as my ban appeal- I then got a reply saying “mods DON’T hang out here - just message them from the sidebar” which I will do after posting this.
I find your deflections and extrapolations both completely irrelevant and also deeply distorted.
You started the deflecting, you started asking if advocating for a two state solution was zionism, then pivoted to ‘whats realistic’ when I said ‘yes, obviously.’
Thats why my last post was actually completely relevant.
You introduced Zionism into the discussion.
I question that advocacy for a “two-state solution” is necessarily Zionism, whereas your complaint rests squarely on such an assumption. The entire settler population being expelled is not feasible. Zionism should not be represented so broadly as to include everyone who is merely practical.
Your grievances about a thread from nine months ago obviously are irrelevant.
It’s why OP was banned from other places.
The link I posted has numerous people explain that advocating for the liberation of Palestine isn’t the same as advocating for a genocide or expulsion of Jews in Israel.
It’s not, and the fact that you jumped to that is why I respond in kind.
The purpose of the post and community is for others to appraise the justification for the moderator action, not summarily to assume its correctness and then simply to explain its merits.
None if it bears on whether advocacy for a “two-state solution” is necessarily Zionism.
They were banned for trolling, their past behavior is absolutely relevant.
I can spell it out for you:
Two states
One of those states is Israel
Israel is a settler-colonial state produced through dispossession and genocide
Accepting its legitimacy and permanence is Zionism
Advocating for it is Zionism
Your appeal to ‘realism’ just means accepting the colonial status quo. Given current power relations, a two-state solution would rapidly become apartheid by another name.
As insinuated, an objective of full parity among all current occupants of Palestine, settler and Palestinian, including freedom of movement for Palestinians throughout the entire territory, would seem to be sufficient to achieve a dismantlement of settler-colonialism in the region.
“One of those states is Israel” is not a meaningful argument, because it begs the question of which transformations may have been imposed on Israel and the territory.
That is not a two-state solution as normally understood.
That’s more like one state with equal rights. You are not addressing my point either, you are substituting something different as if it answers my critique. Kind of a bait and switch.
Additionally, ‘parity’ does not actually address decolonization, ie the stolen land and material inequalities baked into the infrastructure and economy. Still sounds like apartheid.
If Israel is so transformed that it no longer functions as a settler-colonial state then the proposal is no longer a standard two-state solution and calling it one is misleading.
The “two-state solution” is a vague proposal that encompasses a very broad range of concrete possibilities.
One might say it is a range of different proposals all described under a common phrase.
We should not pigeonhole the phrase into one particular, narrow representation insisted as the one “normally understood”.
Simply, I question the narrowness of your characterization.