Will Shetterly
2 min readMar 18, 2024

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Let's break down your errors:

"Zionism is the belief that Jews have a right to self rule, and is not related to land, territory, war or even necessarily the Holy Land."

Tell it to Herzl and Ben Gurion. Herzl considered other locations for Israel, but he planned to dispossess most of the natives wherever the new Israel was founded. Ben Gurion made it very clear that he wanted all of mythical Israel.

"Fighting a war to survive after being attacked is not in this category."

The Palestinians have been fighting a war to survive since Ben Gurion launched Plan Dalet.

"having a PR function to explain policy and advocate for your own survival is not "big business" nor is it unusual."

Oh? How many other countries offer fellowships in propaganda? See https://hasbarafellowships.org/

"The implication of this repeated negative use of the term"

It is the official term. See the Hasbara Fellowships site. If Israel called it propaganda, I would happily do the same.

"$25M PR budget is quite low, actually."

Oh? How many other countries spend that much?

""Israel is finding it hard to lie" - complete nonsense."

Tell it to the head of the ADL.

"ridiculous unfounded speculation based on more "Jews control the world""

Fortune magazine is anti-semitic now? You did follow the link, I hope.

"That can really piss someone off, you know?"

Though many Zionist claims about Hamas have been debunked—hardly anyone offers the 40 beheaded babies nonsense anymore—I agree friends and relatives of the hostages are understandably irrational. This is equally true of the friends and relatives of the far more Palestinians who have endured horrible things from Israelis who are stealing their land.

"I think you'd actually like to present facts, but you are not doing so."

An easy claim to make. But you have yet to point out anything that is factually wrong.

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Will Shetterly
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