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Nobody's "Obsessed" With Israel — It's Just A Uniquely Horrible Country
Maevehttps://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/nobodys-obsessed-with-israel-its
The argument, as I understand it, is that Israel is just a normal small country like any other small country, and any special focus on it suggests a sinister desire to single out Jews for discrimination.
But have you ever noticed how the same people who accuse Israel’s critics of “obsession” with a tiny insignificant country will also fall all over themselves to tell you that Israel is an indispensable ally whose interests are inextricably intertwined with the interests of western civilization?
Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/41786
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Name another small normal country that’s simultaneously attacking like 6 of its neighbors.
Puerto Rico
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PixeIOrangeIsrael is imperialism live and in color. If someone doesnt support the genocide Israel leads, they are automatically against the concept of the western world.
The question that Nazis hoped that people would forget is ‘why are Nazis so hated?’ The answer is they wanted to do to Europe what the Zionists want to do to the Middle East. But Europeans were white (at least to us now) so it was seen as particularly evil.
Mussolini and the fascists in Italy were jokes. Imperial Japan was as evil as the Nazis but people forget that for some reason.
stepanConflating the actions of the Israeli government with Jewish people as a whole sounds pretty antisemitic to me.
Edit: this is in reference to the Israeli government.
Who, besides people on AIPAC’s payroll, is actually doing that? Go on, I’ll wait.
Do be more accurate conflating the colonial policies of the state of israel with the jewish people as a whole is antisemetic
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A good analogy I heard recently was comparing being indifferent to zionism to being indifferent to giving up meat. Until you visit a slaughterhouse or one of those chicken factories, or see the climate data projected difference if everyone even just halves their meat intake, you don’t care.
Once you see what they have been doing for decades in the west bank, in Gaza, to Palestinians just wanting or needing to go in and out of Israel, what they have done to Lebanon and Syria, you can’t ever not be anti-zionist. You have to be an indoctrinated part of their cult to think that what they are doing is anything other than ethnic cleansing and Israeli expansionism.
Like we were “obsessed” with apartheid South Africa.
Would get only a small fraction of the attention if the US (and much of the western world) didn’t go to ridiculous lengths to support it militarily, diplomatically, economically, and socially.
Second highest in happiness in the world, though, among youth.
Not the Palestinian portion of their population, one imagines.
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