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If you doubt this, try reading the above excerpt and replacing “Zionists” with “blacks” and see whether you see racism.
Well yes if you change the subject to a racial epithet, many sentences are racist.
Isn’t Zionism a specific political belief that doesn’t indicate race/nationality/religion?
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‘Black’ is only a racial epithet in certain contexts. In others it is purely descriptive.
In this instance, was Corbyn using ‘Zionist’ as a descriptor or as an epithet signifying an alien and not necessarily welcome ‘other’? The latter would arguably be racism. You may feel his usage was in the former spirit. The problem is that to people who are sensitive to its use as an epithet, it sounds distinctly like the latter.
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https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/08/context-jeremy-corbyn-anti-semitism-john-mcdonnell-today-show-labour