because the pro-israeli lobby has spent millions, billions even, on trying to corrupt the discourse so that any criticism of israel is inherently linked to antisemitism, and tens of millions of people, if not more, have bought into that social engineering and believe deeply that criticizing israel is literally worse than anything hitler did.
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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why is it so fucking hard for American Idiots to understand that the Jewish people =/= Israel.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DreaddyMck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Marketing conflates the two, not much we can do.
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not marketing. It’s a targeted campaign to intertwine the two… oh wait yeahs it’s marketing 🤣
shawn1122@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence states the nation was founded on the “national and historic right of the Jewish people”
Israel’s 2018 Basic Law constitutionally enshrined the state as the "nation-state of the Jewish people. " granting exclusive national self-determination to Jews, prioritize Jewish settlement as a “national value”, designate Hebrew as the sole official language (with Arabic demoted to “special status”), affirm Jerusalem as the capital, and guarantee Jewish immigration rights
This may be why people conflate the two.
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean how is it much different than “I hate Trump and Elon” but I don’t hate Americans … (well I am an American but still).
tacofox@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I still hate far-right maga and ZioNAZIs
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s not. That type of thinking just works with the narrative, whether it’s conflating “Israel” and “Jews,” or “Men” and “rapists,” or “Blacks” and criminals, or Muslims and terrorists. The point is to make it impossible to argue with anything said