I believe Zionism is Racism and I am not afraid of saying it, even if that means getting beaten with a stick.
If you think this paints the Greens as antisemitic then the real problem is people associating anti-Zionism with antisemitism (which is itself antisemitic, btw), and that’s the thing we need to fight against. Refraining from saying the truth isn’t going to help.
Good for you, are you also a party trying to persuade the public to vote for you so you can enact meaningful improvements to people’s lives? Because if not its not really a useful comparison.
My point was that a party can say those things without going at it in a politically brain dead way that gives your opponents an easy way to paint you as something bad even if it’s not true.
So do you think as a party we should hide what we truly believe so people will vote for us, and once we are in we can show our true faces? Let’s be a little moderate now but once we are in we will be different and enact radical changes?
No I think that if you want to be a political party you have to think about how you phrase things, consider that you don’t live in a vacuum with only your core supporters who think exactly the same as you do, and think about how other people will try and spin your words to make them look bad. Then taking all that in mind craft your message in order to work round those constraints to say what you mean without falling foul of them.
As a party we should focus on what’s important, not on slogans. “Zionism is Racism” isn’t a radical change and it doesn’t enable radical change - it’s a slogan. It would have been much better to focus on more important policies like sanctions against Israel than on this slogan. Or what about North sea drilling, or poverty, or many other debates that this took attention away from?
I believe Zionism is Racism and I am not afraid of saying it, even if that means getting beaten with a stick.
If you think this paints the Greens as antisemitic then the real problem is people associating anti-Zionism with antisemitism (which is itself antisemitic, btw), and that’s the thing we need to fight against. Refraining from saying the truth isn’t going to help.
Good for you, are you also a party trying to persuade the public to vote for you so you can enact meaningful improvements to people’s lives? Because if not its not really a useful comparison.
My point was that a party can say those things without going at it in a politically brain dead way that gives your opponents an easy way to paint you as something bad even if it’s not true.
So do you think as a party we should hide what we truly believe so people will vote for us, and once we are in we can show our true faces? Let’s be a little moderate now but once we are in we will be different and enact radical changes?
where have i heard that before? hmmm…
No I think that if you want to be a political party you have to think about how you phrase things, consider that you don’t live in a vacuum with only your core supporters who think exactly the same as you do, and think about how other people will try and spin your words to make them look bad. Then taking all that in mind craft your message in order to work round those constraints to say what you mean without falling foul of them.
You know, do politics.
As a party we should focus on what’s important, not on slogans. “Zionism is Racism” isn’t a radical change and it doesn’t enable radical change - it’s a slogan. It would have been much better to focus on more important policies like sanctions against Israel than on this slogan. Or what about North sea drilling, or poverty, or many other debates that this took attention away from?
Read the resolution. It’s more than three words.