• RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    “while letting Palestinians off the hook for their choices.”

    Wow that’s a tremendous victim blaming huh. “Why were they living there, if they didn’t want to be expelled at gunpoint and their houses demolished/occupied by settlers?”

    • Randomdog [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 years ago

      This is the same corner of the political spectrum that will tell a homeless person to “simply buy a house??” so I’m not sure we should be surprised by this.

  • Circra [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    No one’s singling out Israel on the far left, that’s the thing. Plenty of other American allies get called out. India, for its treatment of Kashmiris, Saudi Arabia for being comic book villain levels of undistilled evil, Australia for its offshore concentration camps etc.

    It’s really fucking weird when a left winger gets accused of singling out Israel when they’ve criticised a whole buncha countries. I guess an antisemite lefty story is way easier to manufacture than anything else.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 years ago

      Especially when the people crafting it are actually anti-semitic. Blaming anti-fascists and anti-colinialists for the sins of the fascists and colonialists is some disgustingly effective sleight of hand.