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I decided to check out The Militant, a socialist news site, and it looks to be supporting Israel. I could be wrong and I hope I am, but wtf?

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it’s based in New York City, should not be surprised it’s run by a lot of Jewish people.

Sadly, many Jews blindly support Israel out of tribal loyalty. Like genocide is OK with them so long as it’s Jews doing the ethnic cleansing.

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

the vast majority of American support for Israel comes from the Christian Evangelical right, not from Jewish americans. I've never met a single Jewish person who actually supported isreal that was aware there was a genocide taking place. most of them have just been grossly misinformed about who lived there

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One of my best friends is Jewish, and while in general I think he has a fine sense of justice, he also has relatives in Israel and is susceptible to jingoistic calls to β€œstand with Israel”.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Someone had better tell AIPAC.

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they're literally number two on the list after Christians for a United israel.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

Someone should tell AIPAC to up their game!

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Why would a socialist site even want to support either side in the conflict? Both are religiofascist ethnostates.

[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml's rules specify not to engage in political discussions.

There are Lemmy communities dedicated to politics if that's what you're after.

[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are two wrong sides here... so it can be difficult to predict what anyone will lean further away from. Beware of assuming that means they are leaning toward the other side though.

[–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

There are more than two sides.

Personally I am on the side of the innocent civilians.