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Unfortunately the media are complicit in equating anti Zionism with being racist against the Jews. They call this anti-semitism even though the origin of this word is from the right wing Jew haters themselves in order to make their hate of the Jews more palatable to the general populace. The right wingers always need somebody to hate, it used to be the blacks, then the Jews , then the Asians and now it’s the gays and the Muslims.

Israel has certainly the right to exist, but so do the Palestinians in their state. I don’t have blind folds, I see there are many radical Muslims who hate Jews and westerners but in order to create peace, the west cannot simply equate every protest against the actions of Israel with hating Jews. It’s wrong, it’s immoral and it holds us back.

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Israel has certainly the right to exist

I disagree. The Israeli PEOPLE do, but the inherently discriminatory apartheid state doesn’t.

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- ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The colonial structure created by the British and the French and then overseen by the USA after the redistribution of power of WW2, which has just been used to destabilise the region and as a military base for more depraved and inhuman incursions, should have never been a thing. 🥲
  
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  - Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I am in the US. The fact we are told that we can’t criticize someone because that makes us racists is one of the issues fueling far right discontent in my opinion. People are tired of working hard to barely make ends meet while sending billions to Israel too. My Trumper parents have been complaining about it for at least 30 years.

It all seems like Israel was set up to be a money laundering scam from the beginning. It seems convenient that the government who needs all our money also just happens to be the ones whose gov (not individuals) has used the common people’s sympathies for those who endured the Holocaust to also do highly unethical shit for decades while claiming any criticism is antisemitic. I have begun to wonder if the people who benefit the most are even really Jews at all. I think many probably are not. I’m not virtue signaling here, but I’m implying that non-Jewish elites around the world and many in Europe probably benefit from the arrangement.

The fact is people here are sick and tired of people saying they are racist if they are pissed that tax dollars go to Israel. It’s not working any longer. So now criticism is terrorism?

This is causing harm to Jews in the US as well. They are good folks and now have to be worried about actual radicals here hurting them over all this. It’s really sad. Per usual, entities in power cause trouble and common people suffer.

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