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Who cares about them, really?
They're not more important than anyone else on this planet.
Im starting to think that what a lot of people learned from the holocaust wasn't 'never let this happen again', but 'never let this happen to the jews again'. The people of gaza are being wiped out because we, the west, can't hold a Jewish state accountable for their actions, because that might make us nazis in the eyes of morons and their propagandists.
You mean the Israeli state?
That always happens when you try to teach a crowd a moral lesson.
But, to be frank, there were institutional things learned too, culminating in the UN being created. Too bad it wasn't reformed significantly after decolonization happened, and for the Cold War, and as a result by now it's completely irrelevant. Its rules are being used to justify things opposite to stated when those rules were written.
The many faces of totalitarianism; we need to discuss this better, or have representatives who can at very least acknowledge that. By the way, none of these people seem to have at hearth the peace of the region. Until than, our hands are tied.
Idk if you have participated in the us political system much but like there's a lot of Jews
Going against them and potentially being branded anti-Semitic is political suicide
I think we can move past this while fighting actual antisemitism, which may be on the rise for all I know.
Acnshually, jews
Calm down, Kanye.
He's got a point. AIPAC i one of the strongest lobby organization in the US. They make and break politicians all the time.
And they've been very successful in convincing everyone that Israel = Jews; so that any criticism of Israel is defacto antisemitic (nevermind that Palestinians are a Semitic people).
We should be clear that Netanyahu and the far-right fundamentalist Likud party in Israel is the problem.
Putting the star of David on their flag was propaganda.
If you think AIPAC represents all Jews, you are absolutely an antisemite. No surprise you think Kanye "I like Hitler" West has "got a point".
Criticising the Israel lobby is fine, but maybe don't blame Jews for everything Israel does...
Eight-in-ten U.S. Jews say caring about Israel is an important or essential part of what being Jewish means to them
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/u-s-jews-connections-with-and-attitudes-toward-israel/pf_05-11-21_jewish-americans-07-2/
"Caring about Israel" is a very generic metric, and I bet things have changed a lot since 2021. I know plenty of people who support Israel's right to exist, but also want Bibi imprisoned for life for what he's doing to Palestinians.
Jews are not a monolithic group. If you can't criticize a government without condemning an entire ethnic group, that's your failure.
I can condemn a group of people who are voluntarily a member of a religion (not the ethnic group) while understanding that individuals should be judged as individuals.
Then point the finger at a group that deserves it like Zionists, rather than broadly pointing the finger at Jews. Most Jews, especially in America, are secular.
Odd phrasing in that first bit 💀