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from what i read it's more like martin luther knig was a centrist on the topic. It's just there's a lot of literal fake quotes and out of context snippets that are passed around by pro-zionists. He also seems rather uneducated on the topic of israel. His position seems more like we should have peace an equaul rights and allow jews to be in israel than a zionist persay.
I don't really get the point of talking aoubt martin luther king's takes on zionism. This was 80 years ago. He's an american civil rights leader not a israeli political analyist. Here's an article about some of the misinformation spread about the topic.
Yeah, I'm general this feels like a pretty bad faith post. A bad take on Zionism by someone close to a century ago? And I'm supposed to what, demonize this man that fought for equal rights, not just racially but for the working class, to the point he got assassinated for it?
A good person can have a bad take. It doesn't make them not a good person. It makes them human.
It's also just not really true. If you look inot what he actually says it more paints a picture of someone who isn't very educated on zionism wanting peace in the middle east and equality for all. which isnt' what zionism is. There seems to be a dedicated effort to try to twist the truth and even outright lie about what martin luther king believed about zionism. But no it was pretty milquetoast centrist take on israel/palestine. Which is definitely still a bad take, especially considering some of his peers like malcom x were very vocally opposed to israel. But it's not zionism.
Thanks for the source on it.
"People gotta be careful with quotes on the internet. They can lead to manufactured division and as I have always said, a house divided against itself will... uh, what was it? Be a fraction of its former self. Yeah... yeah, totally, that was it." - Abraham Lincoln
to be clear as far as i can tell this particular quote isn't fake though.