not really though, calling any support for palestine antisemitism is offensive to the actual antisemitism that happens everyday. i grew up in a suburb that was a huge Jewish community, the antisemitism they would go through often was absolutely disgusting. there’s a clear difference between the two, and it becomes obvious that people just don’t like any support of palestine so they cry antisemitism knowing that it’s a serious issue.
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One enables the other. Of course support for Palestinians isn’t inherently antisemitic, but it enables and empowers them to come out of the woodwork.
I try to stay out of these conversations because it’s such a divisive issue, but it’s also often overlooked that Palestinians and the Arab world are victims of an enormous psyop conducted over several decades to instill a Nazi-like hatred of Jews in order to prolong the conflict. This has been well-documented. I don’t know how that ever gets fixed. I feel bad for everyone.
but hasn’t that also been the other side as well? zionists and isreal supporting Jewish folk have been psyopped to believe that all arabs and palestinians should be eradicated. i’ve been seeing that for years. (i agree with you completely, but please don’t act as if both sides haven’t been psyopd).
Everybody been psyoped hard. Spiritual and Psychological warfare. The seemingly “adversarial” and opposed tribal leaders beating the drums and pulling the levers of war are actually allies, like brothers arms interlocked, in the maintenance and continuance of crisis and conflict, as a means to bolster their respective authoritarian control.
I strongly disagree with anyone who insists that the only way to end the conflict is to remove Palestinians from the land, but in the post-WWII era there were mass deportations of Jews living in Muslim countries who were taken in by Israel. Displaced Palestinians in neighboring countries were never absorbed, and remained in refugee camps for generations. This only helped to deepen the crisis, and it was clearly intentional.
It seems to me that the issue shouldn’t be “Palestinians” but Hamas. Personally I have a desire to see peace for Palestine. But Hamas is a terrorist organization. The mess is that Hamas does not operate like a traditional military (intentionally) so that attacking Hamas causes civilian suffering. It’s a god awful mess.