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Anyone here ever actually live in "Israel"? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kinda curious of your perspective of the culture there.

I feel like as a lefty person on lefty internet I get feed a pretty steady stream of clips of Israelis being fucking psychos, but I guess I wonder how mask off people are when you're just like getting coffee or walking the dog.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

Nah, you're unlikely to see anyone on the lefty internet from Israel. North American/Euro cringe centrist/90s conservatives/twitter neoliberals are the fringe far left types that will get gasps and stares there. That's how far to the right the Overton window is in Israel. Even their communists would be banned for having just unfathomably reactionary takes on everything aside from economics.

Refusing to join the IDF or believing that Palestinians are human beings and not literally buying into racist "s#bhuman animal" shit is enough to land you in prison for between 3 months and 10 years depending on how the court is feeling that day and whether or not you've ever expressed those opinions in public or online.