• neobunch@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m a geopolitical hipster, I’ve been hating on Israel and it’s ethno-supremacist genocidal project since 2001, before it was cool to do so.

    (in reality my heart warms and welcomes everyone on the side of humanity)

    • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      The second intifada woke me up to world politics. My ex was a photo-journalist of Jordanian heritage. She went to Palestine at the time and showed me photos that made me cry even then. To this day, I cannot fathom how Israel maintains such a choke hold on the media and world governments.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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      6 months ago

      As in both were perfectly fine religious symbols before they got appropriated by genocidal right-wing governments and now context matters. In that sense you’re right. But only in that sense.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, that was the point I tried to make clear with the comparison. Israel has forced it a symbol of Jewish supremacy and land thieving genocide. It’s unfortunate for those that don’t align with Israel’s ideology.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    6 months ago

    And we will root for the remnants of the republic that was replaced and the rag tag band of freedom fighters?