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āThe resolution suggests that all anti-Zionismāit statesāis antisemitism. Thatās either intellectually disingenuous or just factually wrong,ā said New York Representative Jerry Nadler, who voted present. āThe authors if they were at all familiar with Jewish history & culture should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was and is expressly not antisemitic. This resolution ignores the fact that even today, certain Orthodox Hasidic Jewish communities ā¦ have held views that are at odds with the modern Zionist conception.ā
Iām not entirely on board with the idea of nations having rights at all. The people living in them do, but I donāt see how an abstract entity should have rights that the people it represents donāt have on their own.
To give a concrete example: the people of Iraq have a right to exist. But itās a country composed of ethnic groups that donāt especially like each other, so having them all live in a single country isnāt necessarily great. I donāt think Iraq has a right to be a country, especially if itās interfering with the right to self-determination of the people living there. Maybe as a practical matter itās better for the country to exist, but rights arenāt supposed to be contingent on practical concerns.
Wellā¦ they did make corporations āpeopleā - so there is that kind of lunacy around.