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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Why is it so fucking hard for American Idiots to understand that the Jewish people =/= Israel and its government.

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 days ago

It’s not. That type of thinking just works with the narrative, whether it’s conflating “Israel” and “Jews,” or “Men” and “rapists,” or “Blacks” and criminals, or Muslims and terrorists. The point is to make it impossible to argue with anything said

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

because the pro-israeli lobby has spent millions, billions even, on trying to corrupt the discourse so that any criticism of israel is inherently linked to antisemitism, and tens of millions of people, if not more, have bought into that social engineering and believe deeply that criticizing israel is literally worse than anything hitler did.

[–] DreaddyMck@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Marketing conflates the two, not much we can do.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It’s not marketing. It’s a targeted campaign to intertwine the two… oh wait yeah it’s marketing 🤣

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Israel's 1948 Declaration of Independence states the nation was founded on the "national and historic right of the Jewish people"

Israel's 2018 Basic Law constitutionally enshrined the state as the "nation-state of the Jewish people," granting exclusive national self-determination to Jews, prioritizing Jewish settlement as a "national value", designating Hebrew as the sole official language (with Arabic demoted to "special status"), affirming Jerusalem as the capital, and guaranteeing Jewish immigration rights.

This may be why people conflate the two. Israel has defined itself as Jewish state.

As Mo Amer says, it's a marketing issue.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean how is it much different than “I hate Trump and Elon” but I don’t hate Americans .. (well I am an American but still).

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

I still hate far-right maga and ZioNAZIs

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

It's literally not

[–] adm@lemm.ee 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lefty here. Fuck Israel. Judaism is cool though. Praise YHWH. Looking forward to Passover with my friends this year. Fuck the modern state of Israel.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago
[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 36 points 6 days ago

Then you have failed. Quit trying to make it happen, we aren't going to support a genocidal regime.

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Like I've said before, I've never been more disgusted with Zionists and Israel. The fact that his goofy ass is sucking off Netanyahu in the background just makes me pissed off like nothing else. I've literally only been using bluesky to ask him to Resign

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 9 points 5 days ago

It'd probably be easier if there wasn't a radical right wing government there.

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 14 points 6 days ago

your job is to stfu and gtfo

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

You’re failing spectacularly.

[–] madcnt@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

It’s the worst thing you can say. And the old man said it

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 136 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"I am bought and paid for by the Israeli government"

[–] NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Literally admitting loyalty to a foreign government.

[–] sporkler@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

and that he's disregarding his constituents concerns while admittedly attempting to social-engineer acceptance for it.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 9 points 6 days ago

But first, a word from my sponsor today, the IDF.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He's also completely failing at this task. His job is to keep neoliberals (e.g. the average corporate brainwashed Democrat) pro-Israel.

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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His job is to represent the people of NY in the Senate.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago

Which he's been doing piss poor at, of course.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 82 points 1 week ago (10 children)

While there are certainly shitty, bigoted reasons to be anti-Israel, there are a fuckton more undeniably good reasons to be anti-Israel.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Christian nationalist fascists love Israel not just because of their warmongering, genocide, and apartheid, but also because they think its existence keeps Jewish people off in their own country away from everyone else.

It sounds contradictory, but the vast majority of support for Israel is literally rooted in antisemitism.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Also the whole end times death cult thing about the Jewish State being a sign of the impending apocolypse and rapture and all the GOOD people don't actually DIE because God takes them up in the mothershipand for seven years all the heathens duke it out andm ake shit worse before Christ comes back and throug hthe power of The Word MURDERS PEOPLE.

Source. Am Christian. If you can't point at the bullshit in your own house... I mean. Stones. Glass house. Right?:)

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's so cute when liberals think that they're leftists.

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Becau$e.

Disclaimer in case it's necessary:Not meant to invoke an antisemitic trope, meant to point out a reality of American politics in general and Schumer in particular. Him being Jewish has nothing to do with his greed, but him being a corrupt politician does.

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are not antisemitic just because you are anti genocide.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My point exactly.

Some ACTUAL antisemites believe or pretend to believe all sorts of tropes about "inherently greedy jews", though, so felt the need to distance myself from that kind of nonsense just in case someone got the wrong idea 🤷

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine a French politician saying my job is to keep my constituency pro-Japan (or any other country).

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