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Every time Zionists call me an antisemite for speaking out against Israel (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I’m against the Israeli government’s murder of children and murder of all the other innocent people in Palestine.

Should I be against Israel itself?

Note I’m [US] American, so I’m against the incalculable harms we’ve perpetrated on the world and our own citizens over the past couple hundred years. I would hesitate - pending some replies to me here - to say “I don’t support the USA” given the very cool people and the Bernie Sanders types and the benevolent US aid organizations and the National Parks and so on (some fediverse developers)… but have an open mind and curious to hear your thoughts on semantics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

At this point, when someone says they are 'against Israel', what they mean is that they are against the genocide the Israeli army is carrying out in Gaza. Maybe there are some who want the country itself toppled - neo-Nazis, for example, or those detached from reality - but they are a small minority (outside of Iran, perhaps).