just to be completely clear, the amount of military power and political influence Israel has has NOTHING to do with its settlers being Jewish. Israel is a force for American & European interests in the region and they’re just doing what America does and allows/encourages its close allies to do.
war crimes aren’t considered war crimes when someone America finds useful is doing them. european and american pushback against anyone criticizing Israeli apartheid & genocide is 100% because these crimes are useful to American & European hegemony.
Governments that are deeply antisemitic, like France, aren’t suddenly caring about Jewish people. Jewish people, persecuted the world over, don’t hold some kind of hegemonic power outside of Israel.
The state of Israel and its attendant brutal treatment of the locals are both incredibly useful to the US, and American hegemony means we’re expected to celebrate both.
not bc they’re Jewish. this isn’t a break in the pattern of western antisemitism and it’s not evidence that antisemitism doesn’t exist.
it’s just like how you could get fired for saying shit against the US war in Afghanistan when i was growing up. it is 100% about US military and political interests (ok slightly western europe too but lbr)
It was never about Jews to begin with. I said it before and I say it again:
Prior to the Holocaust, Hitler “offered” Germany’s Jews to Western powers. It was a scam offer, of course; he knew too well nobody would accept approximately 400 000 refugees (which is the estimated count of German Jews in ca 1936). When the West refused, Hitler twisted it into “nobody wants the Jews” rhetorics and used it to justify the horrors of the Holocaust.
Fast forward a decade ahead. It’s 1946/47. The ashes of the War are setting in and the West struggles with the population explosion due to millions of Jewish refugees who fled the Nazi terror. Instead of proper war reparation and returning the refugees to their homes if possible, the West heed Hitler’s “nobody wants the Jews” motto and follows the Medieval Europe trend of ghettos. So, they create a giant ghetto in Britain occupied Palestine and force the Holocaust survivors and their own Jewish populations there. Note that it’s not a land back project, because 99% (if not all) of these survivors are Ashkenazi Jews who have no ties to Palestine. Creation of “Israel” is literally a nod to the justifications of the Holocaust.
Now, fast forward to modern zionism. I will not talk about the fact that zionism per se is against the Torah, you can find the video of a rabbi explaining it on my blog. Modern zionism
1) equates “Israel” to Jews and vice versa, erasing the complete history of Ashkenazis and other non-Palestinian Jewish diasporas,
2) furthermore, by equating “Israel” to Jews, it claims that Jews are these genocidal maniacs. Saying “‘Israel’ = Jews” is saying “it’s Jews who are currently dropping white phosphorus on babies” which is no different from medieval “Jews caused the plague/cholera/typhoid epidemic by poisoning your wells”. “Israel” is literally reviving medieval antisemitic tropes.
3) “Israel” is actively silencing the antizionist Jews. Zionism silences Jewish voices to spread it’s one-sided bullshit view. If you don’t see how antisemitic it is, you’re blind.
4) The last weeks gave us Netenyahu and other zionists compare Palestinians to “animals”, calling for the utter extermination of Gaza and cheering on children being literally torn apart by the bombs. Zionists at this point are literally copying the behaviour of Nazi Germany in 1940s. I don’t have to explain to you how antisemitic it is unless you’re a total fuckwit.
Zionism and “Israeli” Nazis are antisemites and if you care about the Jews, you support Palestine and combat the Nazi scum.