• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Bob Vyland says something, gets villainized. Belgium does something, gets lionized. Why are politicians not seeing Israel as a third rail to their career?

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      I believe that there will be a tipping point with politicians soon. there are Zionist lobby groups, but if you can’t get elected on that platform, or pro Gaza politicians start to be seen as less corrupt then things will change very quickly.

      Israel is essentially a pariah state at the moment.

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        I dont get why people find it so hard to make the clear distinction between being jewish and zionist. Its not hard, its like German and nazi, American and MAGA, English and chav. We’ve heard the zionists speaking about the civilians in Gaza in dehumanising terms. “They are animals” etc. Thats classic nazi shit.

        But for whatever reason, we still get all those clowns in various governments supporting this shit. How many pictures of starving kids to people need to see before ask the question “Are we the baddies?”?

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          its like German and nazi

          Well, in Germany the descendants of the Nazis are happy to conflate the two and attack Jews, including descendants of Holocaust victims when they take a stance against Zionism in public.

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            20 hours ago

            So does the fact that some Germans are assholes give you licence to hate all Germans? Cos thats what we are talking about here.

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              I am German. I know these people well. Like any people there is good and bad among them. Unfortunately the bad ones are gaining more and more influence. And some of these are using their overly expressive love for Zionism as a “proof” that they aren’t Nazis anymore. In that act they are repeating some of the things the Nazis did.