Comment on Sen. Schumer: 'My Job is to Keep the Left Pro-Israel'

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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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• DreaddyMck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Marketing conflates the two, not much we can do.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s not marketing. It’s a targeted campaign to intertwine the two… oh wait yeahs it’s marketing 🤣

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  • shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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).

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  • tacofox@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I still hate far-right maga and ZioNAZIs

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