I like how it’s just supposed to be bad that he said it, not getting into whether it’s true. Read even one book and it’s abundantly clear Isn’treal is a racist society. Without even getting into Palestinians, they discriminate against brown Jews
Read even one book
pulling my copy of Harry Potter off the shelf
Without even getting into Palestinians, they discriminate against brown Jews
It’s not even 2003 tier anti-Muslim. They’re straight up doing Afrikaner shit. Hell, given how many government leaders couldn’t even be bothered to be Israeli natives, its probably most comparable to Spanish colonial rule of the Americas.
The government is increasingly hostile to your family the longer you’ve lived there.
Without even getting into Palestinians, they discriminate against brown Jews
For those who don’t know: Every Jew has a “right of return”, and can request Israeli citizenship. The problem is, this also applies to (black) Ethiopian Jews. So when tens of thousends of them applied for citizenship, they were given contraceptives without their consent or knowledge. Despite the fact that the Israeli governement has admitted this, many still deny it . The retorical trick they use, is saying that it’s untrue that Israel “sterilised” Ethiopian Jews, which is technically a correct statement, because the Ethiopian Jews were given shots with contraceptives, which isn’t the same as sterilisation (but was highly effective nevertheless, given that the Ethiopian Jews only had about half as many children as the rest of Israelis) and makes it sound like the person who brought this subject up is a vile anti-semite.
He seems to be carefully pushing the discourse. First he normalized “socialism,” now he’s heading into anti-capitalism and calling the state occupying East Palestine racist. While he’s touching third rails to see if he gets zapped, maybe he’ll try “peace in Ukraine”
Well the Knesset took a hard, hard turn to the extreme, overtly Fascist right in the last elections and they’re now working to dismantle Israel’s liberal democracy. There’s no more pretense of Israel being the “only democracy in the middle east” anymore. The current government is no longer making any pretenses about what they are and what their goals are. I suspect that unless the IDF does something very smart like stage a coup soon then being openly critical of Israel is going to become a much safer political position. Israel is already polling badly with American Jews, especially younger Jews, and both Christian Fascists and Israeli Likudnik/Kahanists are directly attacking secular and Reform Jews, as well as some Conservative Jews, and saying they’re not really Jewish.
Israel has always been bad, but the new government are total nuts, an alliance between the worst elements of Likud, including Bibi, and the Kahanists, a hard-core right wing, radically orthodox movement that was banned for a long time because they were overtly engaged in terrorism against both Palestinian Arabs and more liberal Israeli Jews.
So the conditions on the ground have changed in dramatic, important ways. the aggressive Orthodoxy of the Kahanists is unlikely to play well with American Jews of any stripe. I doubt even the American Othodox movements think particularly well of them. They’re going to alienate anyone who isn’t already on board with fascism. I’m sure politicians will still try to use American Jews as a cudgel against anti-Zionist movements, but I think the credibility of that political ploy is going to drop rapidly.
It’s hard to know how racist a regime has to be before liberals will disavow it. Like, it took a while with South Africa, it’s still in process with Saudi Arabia, and the process really hasn’t begun with Ukraine.
How antisemitic of you Bernie.
Bernie SandersSitting US Senator Calls Israel Racist
There. Now its proper clickbait
Isn’t the Post Millennial created by Andy Ngo or was it Miles Ian Chungus