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Why is all US news antisemitic? What are all the reasons Zionism is antisemitic? I vaguely agree but I don't totally understand. (hexbear.net)

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I think any race conspiracy gives power to Nazis and immediately puts Jewish people at more danger. Making both US news and Zionism antisemitic. That's all I've put together.

I really should've asked this in a post long ago, I just feel embarrassed about not knowing.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anti-semitism in europe predates nation-states, feudal europe was very anti-semitic as well

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes I formulated my post in a way that might imply that pre-capitalist Europe was chill with Jews which is obviously false.

Thing is, in medieval Europe, the Christians were apparently dead set on eradicating everyone else during this time, Jews included but not only.

But, when Europe became more secular and the first republics were established, there was progress on that front, even for Jews. So what begs an explanation is why did we stop crusades, the inquisition, massacres of protestants etc.. but somehow, only for the Jews, shit escalated to trying to "send them back home" and later literally kill them all?

That's where I bring the nation-state. It didn't invent persecutions, it modernized it. It prevented the liberal ideals of the republican revolution from taking grounds.

Edit : I'm realising that I'm getting lost in the details here. My point is, the existence of a people as a disaspora is fundamentally progressive and Zionism is robbing the Jews of what makes them a historical force.