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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's important to understand that this is only because the hostages aren't returned. If every hostage was returned, Israel would be looking for every opportunity to level Gaza and further displace Palestinians in the West Bank. Israelis rioted for the right of soldiers to rape prisoners.

Edit: Israelis rioted instead of Israel.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You cannot assume the people protesting here are the same as the people in that riot. That is not fair to them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a Jew who fled the USSR in the 1980s, I fully co-sign Norman Finklestein‘s (a Jewish intellectual and scholar on the subject who lost his family to the Nazi holocaust) assessment that Israel is a sick society.

In October, 58% Israelis polled said that Israel is using too little firepower in Gaza.

In December, they were polled and asked to what extent should Israel take into account the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population. Over 80% said to a little extent.

https://truthout.org/articles/polls-show-broad-support-in-israel-for-gazas-destruction-and-starvation/

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but 80% is not 100%.

So why pretend that 100% of Israelis have the same opinion? It's just bigotry. Just because Israel is committing a genocide and even if the majority of Israelis agree with that genocide, it's simple bigotry to suggest that every Israeli agrees with the genocide.

And if you're going to just piss away internal opposition as if it doesn't exist, you're pissing away hope.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I never said every. You're burying your head in the sand about what Israel has turned into. And don't lecture me on Israel like you have any fucking skin in the game. My grandfather was Israeli. I'm a Jewish refugee in the US. It's not bigotry to factually point out how absolutely atrocious the views of the majority of Israelis are. And how rooted in bigotry it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is conjecture as there are continuing anti-war protests in Israel by a number of different actors and groups, e.g.:

In May 2024, 1,400 academics signed a petition calling for an end to the war Israel–Hamas war protests in Israel, Wikipedia

In my opinion, the way you phrase your comment crosses into antisemitic narratives as the comment implies (at least in my reading) that all the people protesting are anti Palestine. Please note I’m not saying that you are in any way antisemitic. It just irks me how that comment is phrased

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I’m Jewish. Go back to policing someone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Two million Palestinians would vomit on your post if they had something to eat. (thanks @oakey66)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

THIS is how you protest, people! Good for them!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

These Jews in Israel are ANTI SEMITIC!