israel, the biggest terrorist state at the moment. F them.
And being enabled by some of the biggest world policing super powers.
Yes. And their already not really good credibility goes even lower by supporting such acts.
Technically, Russia is larger, you know, geographically
They're not really settlers if they are destroying the places they go to... that's more of a raider-type Behavior
They are ethnic cleansing terrorists.
"settlers" miiiiight not be the best word to describe that they're there to do.
All this hate saddens me
Hate to what? What a generic statement.
I too dislike things that most people deem negative. Hits me right in the feels.
Jewish people something something antisemitism something something Zionist bloodthirsty thieves
It's critical not to include "Jews" in that statement. Israel is not a race, it's a country committing terrible crimes. Jews as a race represent the entire spectrum of morality from saints to villains in the same way any other race does. A lot of Jews are speaking up against Israeli policy at great cost, some examples being Jewish Voice for Peace and Breaking the Silence, which is an organization of IDF veterans who publish their verified testimonials about the truth of Israeli occupation.
Judge people based on conduct, not on genetics or where they were born/reside.
I feel Israel has brought disgrace to the Jewish people. I don’t think being Jewish is the cause of all this, it’s being a shitty country that happens to be mostly Jewish.
Israel certainly wants to drag all Jews under it's umbrella. There are attempts to say Jewish = Israeli = Zionist but those should be resisted. In December the US Congress passed a bill that "clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism" and Netanyahu has said the same many times. However there is a wealth of evidence that it's just not true. As I pointed out, there are many examples of Jews who oppose the current Israeli policy and I don't think they need to be shamed but rather celebrated since they are the evidence that Israel doesn't represent nearly all Jews.
Here's a short video of Jewish Congressman Jerry Nadler stating that trying to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism is "either intellectually disingenuous or factually wrong" with accompanying arguments. Here's a story where a Jewish woman relates her Holocaust-survivor mother was always ashamed of what Israel did to Palestinians. I think there's an attempt to make Jewish people of conscience ashamed of what Israel is doing, but I don't agree with it. I admire Jews willing to demand ethical treatment of people, Palestinian or otherwise. There are a lot of them who speak out even when it brings personal consequences. It's true there is definitely shame to be felt by those that support Israeli crimes and apartheid policy, but that's not exclusive to Jews or any ethnicity/nationality.
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