"Zionism" is not a religious belief
The "political content" tag already exists, there's no reason to censor creators who want to discuss political topics such as zionism. It is NOT a religious belief or background, it is the support of a settler-colonial state established by the United Kingdom. In my opinion, the British had zero right to "give" that land to another group, and plenty of Jewish people feel the same. Israel is currently bombing and mutilating as many people as possible. Most rational people would call this a genocide, and these are discussions that must be had. To censor these discussions is truly throwing fuel on the fire of antisemtic conspiracies that Jewish people control everything, which they don't, but corporations literally censoring dissent is not a good look. Zionism is NOT the same thing as Judaism, and to imply so is deeply antisemitic. If a creator is criticizing Israel AND being antisemitic, sure, suspend them, ban them, I don't care. But there are plenty of creators and chatters who criticize Zionism, the political ideology, but shut down anybody speading antisemitic conspiracies or stereotypes.
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AcingEagle
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What in the world did I just read? Sorry but I stopped reading after the headline. Zionism as word equals in social and lingual context pretty much always to Jewish people.
Humanity is one family! So we love Israelis, whether they might be Jewish, Christian, Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists or whatever. Same applies to people from typically Arab countries and other places around the world.
The consideration that Zionism itself would be a political ideology sounds weird to me as well, and even antisemit in itself.
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PapayaChemist
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If you really want to prevent antisemitism, maybe start by listening to actual Jewish people instead of knee-jerk banning words without even considering context.
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kaloncpu57
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Voting for every word of this
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brutebasket
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1000% point on take of the situation!
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qichin
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Equating Zionism and Judaism is in itself anti-Semitic
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Cheeky8
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The uservoice is being very buggy for me and not letting me vote - I’ll keep trying but for now, have this comment as proof of my support for this suggestion.
Zionists believe that it’s okay for people to invade and settle on someone else’s land. Is that really what you want to encourage, Twitch?
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TheStonedLich
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If we want to help stop anti-Semitism, we cannot keep equating Zionism with Judaism.
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Caberhook
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Equating Zionism and Judaism is a manipulative tactic to avoid criticism. It's hiding behind the sympathy people have for Jewish suffering so that they can do whatever they want. You should NOT equate the two or give special protections to Zionists. They're not poor bullied underdogs they're slaughtering a land without a military with billions of dollars backing them. Many Zionists are christian. The Zionist ideology is not Judaism.
I fully support protecting Jewish people from antisemitism. Being against Zionist actions is not antisemitism. In addition, Arab people ARE Semitic. I feel like Zionists ignore that because they want a big scary buzz word that shuts up any questioning.
Being anti-Arab is antisemitic too.
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KamiAnya
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As a Jewish creator, these types of rules link Zionism with Judaism, which just fuels antisemitism even more. So much censoring and shutting down conversations is being done in the name of fighting antisemitism, and we aren’t asking for that!