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Comment by throw37842358

11 hours ago

Your arguments are self-contradictory. You say force is great, but only for Hamas - not for Israel.

A youth who thinks Israel should be genocided doesn’t care about genocide, so why hate Israel?

The hate in Europe is driven primarily by an influx of people who were hating Jews anyway, and who naively think that the hatred won’t backfire on them. Once you start promoting racism it comes for everyone.

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l23k4  10 hours ago

>The hate in Europe is driven primarily by an influx of people who were hating Jews anyway

You are mistaken, the sentiments are shifting across the board.

This is probably driven to a significant degree by the Israeli national policy of tying any criticism of Israel with antisemitism, and the broad acceptance of that policy by Jewish communities globally. Because of this implicit endorsement, it is not surprising that many would struggle to separate between the actions by taken by the state of Israel and those who call themselves Jews.

  • throw37842358  7 hours ago

    You can’t blame the victims for racism. The whole point of racism is that it lumps people together based on the actions of some.

    It’s the same way Islamophobia doesn’t become justified based on the actions of some Muslims.

    Anyone who does do that is already a bigot, and would do the same to any other group, regardless of what they do.

    A culture that normalizes hatred of Jews (or Israelis) as a group, will very quickly devolve into one where other minorities are hated as well. Because the youth, as gullible as they are, can still detect when a system of values is inconsistent.