Could someone please fill me in on how this is related to 'the western left', as mentioned several times in the article?
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Uh... the whole article is discussing how "the western left's" sympathy for Palestine and criticism of Israel is being criticized?
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.
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.
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.