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When lunatics start talking about expelling all Israelis 'Back to Europe' instead of integrating them in a one-state solution
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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I've always felt that the new Left's obsession with Israel veils a great deal of unprocessed anti-Semitism, twisted in knots over the rules of identity and when it's "okay" to have one. In the 60s and up until pretty recently, it was the KKK and John Birch Society that hated Israel. Leftists, like Noam Chomsky, were defenders of Israel.
At its core is the idea that "Jews aren't victims anymore, but they're allowed to contribute to the culture and express their identity as former victims of persecution, and that's wrong." Muddled up in this belief is all kinds of unpleasantness. Jewish people get to have their cake an eat it too, right? So it's better to take the side of a population that has been so brutalized and manipulated that they actually believe in martyrdom.
I saw an anti-Israel march in my city not long ago. All these white "anarchist" kids were yelling "Mothers, daughters, all are martyrs!" I see little difference between them and neonazi skinhead punks.
You….really need to expand on what you’ve said because right now you sound like a fucking monster.
I do not trust the anti-Israel sympathies, or should I say "Pro-Palestine" sympathies, of most people who are not directly involved in these places. They do not seem genuine to me. I'm sorry if that makes me sound like a monster. I've read Finkelstein and plenty of Chomsky, too. I think Norm is a monster for telling Israelis they should leave, and I think he is making things far worse for Palestinians. There is something very self-serving about the majority of Israeli sentiment I sense from my own political side of the aisle.
I doubt this will be a popular opinion here, and I don't think there's much to be gained from having to explain why I feel this way.
I find Chomsky grotesque in his campism, but to my knowledge Chomsky has only ever called for the settlements in Palestinian territory which are illegal by international law to be abandoned.