• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    i was taught by a holocaust survivor that israeli fascism could only lead to terrible outcomes for the Jewish people.

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      3 days ago

      Its fucked up. Cuz like when I meet a ruso-canadian I don’t immediately question if they support Putin. But I have caught myself multiple times questioning if an ethnically hebrew person supports Israel.

      The fact that we barely differentiate between Israel and Netanyahu’s fascist government is proof enough of the harm it causes. Because I know that not every Israeli citizen supports the genocide in Gaza, but they’re for the most part just as powerless as we are.

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        I have caught myself multiple times questioning if an ethnically hebrew person supports Israel.

        Ugh that is so fucked up but I commiserate because I’ve found myself doing the same and I hate it so much. I hate that I’ve started having that awful knee-jerk reaction.

        Like I grew up in a city with a large Jewish community so I have very warm feelings about the whole Jewish aesthetic and philosophical outlook on life.

        But now it’s like there’s this little dangling asterisk next to those warm feelings. Like I’m always wondering if they support genocide.

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          3 days ago

          Thank you. Was kind of discouraged at bro fixating on me using the word Hebrew like I meant anything by it. Nice to hear someone else has the same experience.

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        3 days ago

        They are calling people Anti-Semitic just for being against the genocide. Not Israel, not the Israeli government, not Netanyahu… Anti genocide

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        3 days ago

        Just FYI, it’s really weird to refer to Jews as Hebrews. And apartheid is inherent to the Israeli ethnostate, and fascism is inherent to political Zionism and always has been. This was a criticism levied at zionists, within the Jewish community, before world war 2 even.