• Elise@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I read it and it confused me. Is this a US thing? I really feel out of the loop here.

    I mean in Germany the far right seems to support the Palestinians, but that doesn’t apply to the whole right.

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      Yeah, it’s a US thing. For some reason (mostly lobbying), the US has undying support for Israel and criticism of the state gets conflated with antisemitism.

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      The US has been very anti-arab for decades.

      They’re also very anti-Semitic, but “white people oppress brown people” is sort of the US right-wing’s mission statement, so they side with Israel on this.