Anonymous #1 3w

I’m a deeply anti-Zionist person and can say that Joker isn’t fully wrong here. A lot of people don’t talk about Israel the same way as they’ve talked about other US-backed genocidal regimes. I condemn Israel in the strongest political terms, I think that state should be abolished. I’ve defended the Palestinian right to rebellion as defined for oppressed groups under international law. But I’m still speaking in political terms.

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Anonymous #1 3w

A lot of the anti-Israel rhetoric I see on here is at its core political, but seasoned with cultural antisemitism. The idea that Israel controls America uniquely among our vassal states, rather than a tactically critical US launching ground in the Middle East with strategic value to the American government, kind of clearly comes from that classic Jewish string-puller trope. There’s nuances to this conversation.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 3w

People didn’t talk the same way about Saudi Arabia when they were committing genocide in Yemen on the American dime, despite the crimes against humanity being the same, the bipartisan US backing being the same, etc. It’s okay to do some constructive internal criticism.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 3w

“Man, this stuff in Gaza is pretty bad. Israel doing some pretty heinous shit”. “I know! They’re all fucking inbred and there is no such thing as an Israeli! It’s not even a real culture!” 😐 This is what it is constantly

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Anonymous ___joker__ 3w

Exactly, Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, because Zionism is not Judaism, it is a political philosophy. But if you don’t check yourself, make sure you keep it politically grounded, one can easily fall into the trap of using antisemitic tropes in their point about Israel, which only benefits the Zionists who seek to conflate the two.

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Anonymous #3 3w

The point made in other comments about thinking of geopolitical strategy and then the other wealthy allies who buy weapons to slaughter civilians. Makes sense to get people to stop and take a look at the bigger picture.

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