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Starmer is a Zionist as much as Joe "Irish American Zionist" Biden is. In so far as they're not, but they know which way their bread is buttered. Probably shouldn't conflate the two.
you mean like this?
Or this ?
There's no way to know
How can he be both a proud Irishman 🇮🇪 (given it's complex history with occupation and colonialism) and also a Zionist? 🤔. Something doesn't sound right.
Unless, and hear me out, he's simply a Zionist when it suits him electorally and he's an Irishman 🇮🇪 when it suits him electorally too. In other words: he knows which way his bread is buttered. Same with Starmer although I doubt he'd go as far to actually proclaim himself as a Zionist. He's not stupid.
Whether he (Biden that is) is actually a Zionist I don't know but my guess is that he feels a stronger belonging to Ireland than Israel but understands how to play politics when it suits him. He is also more strongly an American than an Irishman 🇮🇪 so if it suits the USA but angers Ireland then so be it. For example I don't think he's exactly popular in Ireland for that very reason right now.
Bro, this hill ain't worth dying on. He produced a few examples of Biden saying it himself. Clearly you don't know him as well as you thought.