
Yeah I got a notification for it, had something to say and responded? That’s how yikyak works And I’m not offended by the word Israel, I just said it’s antisemitic af to conflate the two bc it is? The problem is the left’s “conspiracy theories” are rooted in anti Zionism and decolonization. They’re calling out the exploitative nature of the country & its history and then conflating that to actual antisemitism! Harmful and racist af
No it’s rooted in Antisemitism when shmucks spread conspiracy theories like Israel controls all the governments or Israelis are all blood thirsty or whatever bullshit I’ve seen posted all over this app and everywhere else. Maybe you would have an argument if the antizionists made any effort to condemn antisemitism but they don’t. Don’t sit here and pretend that there is not antisemitism in the antizionist movement.
When leftists and right wingers use all of the same tropes, libels, and propaganda, and just switch the wording around, do you really think that has nothing to do with Jews? You can’t recycle all of the same rhetoric as Neo Nazis and replace the word “Jew” with “Zionist” or “Israel” and think that you’re absolved of any antisemitism.
one of my fav quotes about antisemitism that really opened my eyes is “antisemitism is not the belief that everything Jewish is evil, it is the belief that everything evil is Jewish”. like these conspiracies keep coming back to evil in the world happens because of evil Jews and if we just got rid of the evil Jews everything would be better
Leftist think Israel is an apartheid state committing a genocide but not on the basis of being Jewish but due to Zionism which has a larger Christian population then Jewish population. Conservatives think the same thing but purely on the basis of being Jewish. So it really boils down to do you believe both of those beliefs are antisemitic which obviously some do. I know Johnathan Greenbalt head of the ADL said both of those beliefs are antisemitic since accusing the only Jewish state of
Also a wild oversimplification. When you recycle the same tropes of Jews controlling everything, blood libel, and financial manipulation, you can’t claim it’s all happening just because of some word salad of “apartheid” and “genocide”. And that doesn’t even account for the endless double standards that leftists hold towards Israel and Jews that absolutely don’t exist towards any other group or country.
But the left isn’t saying Jews. They’re saying Zionists! Which again are mostly non-Jewish. The richest and most powerful ppl of the world support Israel bc it’s an American proxy doing what they need to in SW Asian to maintain US hegemony and power. Plus they profit from war and arms and surveillance development How are the words “apartheid” and “genocide”? How else do you expect someone to describe what’s happening
Yet shill for Iran, Islamist terrorist groups, China, Russia, etc. That’s not humanity, that’s selective outrage. When you only care about western or western aligned countries yet give a pass to the horrid crimes against humanity committed by non western countries, you can’t claim anything criticisms are in good faith. And only Israel specifically garnered mass riots and encampments on college campuses, hence the double standard.
I disagree. The difference is Israel & all of its actions are fully funded & supported by the U.S. People protest to try & get the U.S. to stop funding Israel’s actions with their tax payers dollars. Where as the U.S. is already against Iran,China, Russia & Islamist terrorist groups to the point of applying sanctions to them & giving their adversaries weapons with taxpayer money.
What’s wrong with supporting China and the progress they’ve made so quickly? And leftists don’t support the Iranian government, they just don’t want US backed intervention bc that will be way worse than the current scenario. And with russia, we don’t support the Russian government itself but recognize how the US (NATO) is the aggressor in the war. All of these issues have nuance, you have to have a better understanding of geopolitics and history. It all goes back to US and capitalist hegemony.