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usualgerman  ·  17 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TRIGGER WARNING: A POEM

I’ll have to be fair to their argument though. The reason Jews are so gung ho about Israel and so willing to do anything to defend it it’s basically about hundreds of years of Jewish history. Jews got kicked out of their homes, exiled, pogroms everywhere, often for things that they had nothing to do with. And of course there’s the holocaust after all of that. From that perspective, Israel is basically the only place where Jews can at least to some degree control their own fate. And that’s not something they’ll give up, obviously.





user-inactivated  ·  17 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or New York City, USA.

I don't see why anywhere should be an ethnostate, it leads to stuff like this.

usualgerman  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Except that there have been incidents of antisemitism in the USA as well. It’s not something that you can easily guarantee because Jews in NYC are at the mercy of the rest of us, and like most in NYC are not allowed to be armed. I really don’t have a good answer, but as I said, the history of Judaism when Jews don’t have an Army and Navy is pretty bleak. Even leaving aside the Nazis, Jewish history pretty much shows why they need an ethos Tate somewhere with an army and navy under their control.

user-inactivated  ·  15 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Amnesty International has declared what's happening in Gaza to be a genocide. By providing unconditional support, we are participating in that genocide.

Lil's poem is spot on