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
23 Comments
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 57 pts · 144d
Name another small normal country that's simultaneously attacking like 6 of its neighbors.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
Puerto Rico
/s
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 143d
Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 143d
😅
PixeIOrange@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 143d
Israel is imperialism live and in color. If someone doesnt support the genocide Israel leads, they are automatically against the concept of the western world.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 11 pts · 143d
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.
stepan@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 143d
Exactly
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 144d
You forgot the link to the article
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 143d
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/nobodys-obsessed-with-israel-its from the crosspost (which seems to be broken)
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 143d
Thanks! Again it's there. Try clicking on the image? We've had this issue incessantly.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 143d
If I click the post it only redirects me to the image (opens this link: https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.kbin.earth%2Fcf%2F37%2Fcf3741727f054904a4757acdbed7c590452053abe2861c4d7ec8ecc0e2206e9a.jpg )
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 143d
Hmm, I recall you? complaining about this issue before and finding the actual link. The link is in the proper field and displays for me via web interface. Perhaps mbin devs can look into it, if I can recall to post about it and have time after work.
@jwr1
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 143d
I do recall this happening before so it might be an issue with the software. If it works on your side then it could be something between fediverse crossposting of Kbin and Lemmy possibly
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · -14 pts · 144d
Conflating 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.
khornechips@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 143d
Who, besides people on AIPAC’s payroll, is actually doing that? Go on, I’ll wait.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 143d
He's saying AIPAC, the Israeli government and similar groups that hide behind the anti-Semitism defence are not acting in the interests of the Jewish people, and are therefore anti-Semites.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 143d
Thanks
ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 143d
Can't you get a free visa or citizenship there if you're Jewish?
rapchee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
can you quote where they do that?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
yes the zio-fascist shitraeli government is indeed very antisemitic.
Conflating themselves with and hiding behind their jewishness is all they do.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d
The state itself is antisemetic
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 143d
They're also giving credence to the Nazi bullshit that a Jewish cabal rules the world.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 143d
They’re not.
They are talking about the shitraeli genocider state, so you're parroting the same zionist propaganda
mrdown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d
Do be more accurate conflating the colonial policies of the state of israel with the jewish people as a whole is antisemetic