Why do people condemn Israel so much about not giving enough aid to Palestinians?
Reposting from another sub where I was banned, hence the edit lol
What’s with the normalization of hate on Israel citizens?
Peoples obsession with Israeli people, and thus Jewish people, is becoming increasingly concerning. None is shooting, stalking, kicking people out, solely based on someone’s nationality. Even in countries that are committing active war crimes (I.e, Iraq, Yemen, etc) people would still be outraged if they were attacked because of their said nationality.
**Edit**: okay a lot of people are putting words in my mouth so please read what I actually said above (media literacy is truly out of control).
For those genuinely wondering why I say Israeli people, and thus Jewish people please let me explain!
Around 70% of the population in Israel is Jewish while the rest are Christian’s, muslims, etc. **The state of Israel itself was established as a Jewish state, and safe heaven for the Jewish people.** This piece of land (specifically, Jerusalem) was specifically chosen because of its historical significance to the Jewish people. Hebrew and the Jewish people have been known to occupy that land around a thousand years ago and is the birthplace of both. Hence that is where they lived prior to be exodus.
While many zionists, **the belief that the Jewish people have a right to their ancestral homeland**, aren’t Jewish, most Jewish people are.
While you may not think critiqizing the Israeli government means being antisemetic (very true, many Israelis themselves critique the same government) the rise in antisemitism is a very real thing with places like Synagogues, Jewish shops, etc. being targeting solely due to their Jewish identity. This isn’t an opinion it’s simply facts. Because of the rampant hate that is being pushed about Zionism people who are, actully, anti-senetic are now given free access to defend their blatant antisemitism as anti Zionism.
I also want to point out that Jews are a group that tend to be too “white” for the left and not “white enough” for the right. They’re at an odd stand still because of this. I think a lot of people on the left (the white ones) have a sense of white guilt and since they think most, if not all, Jews aren’t visible minorities they see them as the “colonizers” thus the “bad guys”. This also gives ammunition to actual anti semites because they’re given free access to say whatever they want since Jews are the “evil colonizers” and “Zionists”.