• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What they’re saying is that blowing up hospitals and murdering children and genociding people is a Jewish trait. Which seems hella anti-semitic to me.

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      3 months ago

      Well yeah a lot of Israel’s defenders seem to have a really different understanding of jews from me. To me they’re neighbors and friends who have a slightly different culture and generally practice a different religion.

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        3 months ago

        Most of them don’t seem to give a shit about Jewish people, they just have ulterior motives for supporting Israel. Arm sales, geopolitical strategy, hating Muslims, lebenstraum, and then there’s the crazy Christians who support it because of the rapture stuff. Then there are the Jewish people who delusionally believe that somehow having a state which is solely dependent on the US empire’s support is somehow going to protect them from another holocaust and think that priority overrides everything else. I can’t think of ANYONE I know who can genuinely square support for Israel with any kind of Jewish religious values. Because they can’t. Because that would be insane.

        When an actual Jewish person comes out against Israel, they just call them a self hating Jew. Yup. Nothing antisemitic about that. They must just really want to protect Jewish people from… checks notes… ourselves.

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    3 months ago

    Consider analogous countries.

    A country with a big Christian cross as it’s flag. Christian symbology in their emblems, money, seals, etc. The national anthem is about Christians reclaiming their holy land. “A country where Christians can feel safe.”

    “Hello welcome to Bobland, a country founded by Steves. Steve is on our flag and money and stamps and official seals… and our songs are about Steve. The major religion is Steve. Our politics are mostly about Steve.”

    “Why are Steves committing genocide?”

    “How dare you conflate our actions with Steve! This is Bobland! If you don’t accept technicalities you’re basically Hitler.”