masquenox

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's a very important point, considering that the crux of all the white supremacist propaganda we've been fed about Israel rests on the idea that Israel (somehow) "represents" Jewishness... and I'd say this plays right into the hasbara's hands.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Jesus fuck if that’s really what you got from my comment

This you?

It’d be like kicking all the Russians out of former USSR countries, or Chinese out of Tibet, or white people out of the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

I could swear that was you, pretending that decolonialism (somehow) automatically results in the expulsion of this or that people. You know, like a person who only views the world through a white supremacist lens would?

So I take it there is now no objection to the dismantling and destruction of the state of Israel? Or are you still conflating Jewishness with Israel? You know, like white supremacists do?

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Although wouldn’t kicking the Jews

Why do you conflate Jewishness with Israel?

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

why some Christians are obsessed with Israel

I'd say that Zionism is a Christian idea, but that would be false. It's a "western" idea that orginated among English upper-class Christians that was utterly antisemitic - the idea that Jewish people will always be an "other" in the white, oops, I meant to say "western," world and essentially "must go back where they came from."

Right-wing Jewish people picked up this idea from there. Zionism has never been an exclusively "Jewish" thing and it has always been fundamentally antisemitic - that's why you can even see neo-nazis singing Israel's praises.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's kind of disingenuous.

It portrays Orthodox Jewishness as being responsible for genocidal Zionism when Orthodox Jewishness has pretty much always been vehemently critical of both Zionism and the creation of Israel.

The Jewish Zionists that perpetrated the Nakba looked no different than their fellow Europeans.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

Jewish people living in Palestine is no fig leaf to justify European genocidal colonialism.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I think at this stage we can just call manifest destiny "Americanism."

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

There is no such thing as "blind" justice. What they mean with "blind justice" isn't justice at all, but rather a blind application of and obedience to law - which liberalism have always (and utterly falsely) conflated with "justice."

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s an ideal in that people should be working towards taking control of the state apparatus

People are ALREADY in control of the state apparatus. What we have is, by now, the very predictable result.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

The american legal system isn’t about justice

None of them are. They are all about maintaning the status quo and nothing else.

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