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.