• Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      nah. the entire settler colonial mythology of israel is based on the idea that the (white, european, descended mostly from converts) Jewish people are "returning" to their "lost homeland" they they were cast out of in late antiquity, and that the indigenous Palestinians are Muslims settlers from the middle ages. This is about as revisionist as it gets, but it doesn't stop them from believing it.

      • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        A guy I used to work with and still see on a slack our colleagues all made 8 or so years ago said exactly this as if it justifies bombing innocent people, who are primarily children. His whole schtick is that his grandparents' families were all murdered in nazi concentration camps except his grandpa who kicked all their asses and rambo'd his way out, therefore it's fine to do the same thing to this other group of lesser people who are like lowly unsmart animals. That mask coming off was pretty surprising to all of us and he has since stopped talking in the channel altogether.

        Also I don't know why people think it's perfectly acceptable to slaughter animals either.

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      8 months ago

      From what I understand there was a prevalent leftist/socialist strain within some of the early Jewish settlers in Palestine so no this oddly tracks