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minus-squareKami@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-217 days agoI mean… it’s an illegitimate state after all.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoIt can’t be racism unless you admit it’s an ethnostate.
minus-squareEugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoThat’s actually a really good catch. If Israel is an ethnostate, then saying “Israel did something bad” is now by default saying “Jews here did something bad.” And it works for their “anything calling us out is antisemitic” and the people who think being Anti-Zionism are antisemitic. It helps deflect any claim. South Africa wishes it had that idea.
I mean… it’s an illegitimate state after all.
It can’t be racism unless you admit it’s an ethnostate.
That’s actually a really good catch.
If Israel is an ethnostate, then saying “Israel did something bad” is now by default saying “Jews here did something bad.”
And it works for their “anything calling us out is antisemitic” and the people who think being Anti-Zionism are antisemitic.
It helps deflect any claim. South Africa wishes it had that idea.