He says Zionism is not an inherently racist ideology and blames the racism squarely on Benjamin Netanyahu and his government that is quite explicit on 1:24. He also accepts the false notion that Palestinians demand their homeland back from the genocidal colonizers is equal to the genocidal colonizers trying to wipe out the Palesitnians.

Zack even pretends that Zionism originated from the Holocaust and conveniently leaves out the 70+ years of its organisation before it, and Zionist colonisation of Palestine which started long before the Holocaust.

The label does matter. By not acknowledging that Zionism has been a racist ethno-supremacist ideology based on Jewish surpremacy from its very origin, it turns a very black and white settler colonial project into a “nuanced gray” area.

Then by starting the history of Zionism after the Holocaust, it hands Zionism an excuse for its inexcusable ideology. Zionism had existed almost as many years before the Holocaust as the Holocaust is behind us now.

In the 1800s settler colonialism and wiping out natives was a cool hip thing to do. These days people realize that ethnically cleansing a population to steal their land is not actually a justifiable undertaking. Thus Zionist revisionism was invented by prominent Zionists in the Hasbara field. To lie and whitewash the history of Zionism. Polanski is spreading a false revisionist narrative of Zionism.

I’m guessing the Nakba never happened then?