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TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion::In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’ll verify that my Arabic family are wildly antisemitic. They don’t denigrate Jewish individuals, mock their appearance, call them filth or anything in that vein. But they’re not just anti-Zionists either. They believe Jews control the world through a shadow network of conspirators. And when you believe that, it fits right in that they must have manufactured a Holocaust to win sympathy.

I think it all stems from anti-Zionism, though. They see a tiny country holding out against the entire Arab world, with the backing of powerful westerners, and their explanation is that the Israelis must have America and the EU dancing on puppet strings. It’s like when a foe pulls off a stunning victory and their enemies say they must have cut a deal with the devil because how else do you explain it. I don’t believe any of that, though I do find the American military support for Israel totally sus and wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Jews were in high positions in the Arab world and iirc lived well. Much of the blame for the rise in anti-semitism is almost purely down to Zionism. Jews came to be seen as colonial collaboraters with the great powers against that region. In Algeria they literally were - the French were able to create a two-tier colonial society by giving Jewish Algerians who were native to Algeria citizenship and denying Muslims the same by claiming cultural incompatibility. Hence, Jews became a colonial force in that country.

In Iraq, Zionists terrorised the Arab (Iraqi!) Jewish community there by bombing Synagogues and cultural centers and collaborated with Iraqi nationalists to force Iraqi Jews into leaving for Israel.

So there are different experiences here, but almost all is down to colonialism and zionism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep great insights. Thank you for adding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol when were these Jews in Iraq bombed and who exactly are the zionists who did the bombing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine you walked into the camps and saw the smattering of walking skeletons that were left from the multiple thousands of people who had preceded them into the gas chambers or ovens.

I think it's hard to really imagine what level of trauma that would cause, and how shocking it would be to see those images.

I think that is the foundation of a powerful bond between the West and Israel, and it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

I find it extremely troubling that Netanyahu and his cronies have said that the only solution to the issues they are having is to exterminate all Palestinians (assuming that quote is accurate) and I do think that their actions are horrifying and deserve criticism, but that's the government. I have no issue with the people of Israel. I believe that in part these actions are Bibi covering his own ass for not stopping nor even anticipating a massive attack from a known enemy. I understand his desire to root out Hamas, but there has to be a way to do so with more accuracy and less civilian misery and death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He has said Hitler didn't intend to destroy Jews until a Muslim told him to.

His son posts Nazi memes on Facebook (featuring Greenwald).

He is also suspiciously happy that his son married a white Scandinavian woman.

He made racist jokes/comments about north african jews in their military and that white jewish officers must lead them.