r/tankiejerk

forgive for bringing up our dear friend Amanda Gerlander and her “Yes all Jews“ article but I thought I’d cent a little why expelling all Jews from Palestine is a shithead idea.

Becaue would you know it, Jews didn’t just all waltz right in the 20th Century. Jewish communities have existed in Palestine for years, even many centuries before the existence of the Zionist movement and the regime of Israel.

So to argue that all Jews must be removed even those who have been living there generations before the rise of Zionism an Israel is farcical at best and vile at worst, and to argue that all Jews there bear some collective guilt for the atrocities and oppression of the Israeli regime is literally been the playbook of countless wagers of genocide. Hell, Israel is doing it too with their whole thing about how all Palestinians bear the sins of Hamas.

Like, are you gonna say that those of Aztec descent can’t live in Mexico because of their imperialism before Cortez showed up, or that those descended from the Norman conquerors of England can’t live in the British Isles?

It also doesn’t help that she‘s glazing an organization of Islamic theocrats who are blatantly antisemitic despite why their so calls charter says (reminds me of an official statement from the 1915 KKK that says “we don’t foster racial or religious prejudice“.

Fuck her and her whole self-flagellating “All Jews are pigs except me” bullshit.

Generally it annoys me with revolutionaries who are completely uncompromising, that are more interested in being a martyr than actually affecting societal change. That sometimes it isn’t possible to get everything you want, and it may be better to get the freedom to achieve freedom as Michael Collin’s said.

Emiliano Zapata is one of the exceptions. He was completely right in his belief that he couldn’t trust any of the chiefs and caudillos in Mexico City who offered amnesty or vague promises. From Madero to Caranza, they all basically saw the Zapatistas as barefooted savages who needed to be put back in their place of cultivating sugar for their betters.

And he never comes across that he fought for personal pride, but because he loved his home and people and didn’t want to see them being abused any further, and it was that determination even if it didn’t win a national revolution, at least won freedom for his people

Also one of the greatest moustaches in history

If these need to be taken down, let me know. These were taken a year apart (2024 and 2025), and I was confused about some of the questions. I still consider myself a democratic socialist, though.

The point above was "we need to do something about the people defending the pro-Palestine antisemites in the party".

Mostly the subreddit is great but we do have a fair few tankies who arrived from Your Party.

And I don't know how we're supposed to get rid of them.

Putin interview reference on the last slide

Yeah seems a little hypocritical to make this statement while sneakily at then end if the description saying not all leftists... like yes does it exist of cause but all this does is lead to any criticism with the statement to fit his bias... and the comments are a bunch of Zionists agreeing with him with the sprinkling of people telling why this statement doesn't actually highlight genuine antisemitism on the left and just conflated anti-zionism and antisemitism

With plenty of tankies in the comments too

It's interesting to me that this sub rarely mentions Nicaragua. It is not as if there is no stuff deserving attention, just the other day Rosario Murillo described Catholic priests as traitors. The DSA is pro dictator. The tankie Euro left as well.

How has Nicaragua avoided the attention of this sub? Seems to me that western support for the dictator is significant, especially given the region's left rejection of the regime.

(reporting in English on Nic > https://confidencial.digital/en/english/)