What's special about Isreal that makes you so invested? I could understand reasons to dislike Mexicans or blacks (at least, for americans), but jews? There's so few of them and they don't have a large impact here of any kind.

Is it entirely those theories about jews controlling the world behind the scene? If it is, do you have an elevator pitch for why you believe those theories?

To be clear, I'm not interested in joining and I suspect I'll strongly disagree with a lot of what you say, but I want to know where you're coming from and why you think/do what you do.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Criticising Israel is not inherently antisemitic, they do not represent Jews as a whole.

[–] AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So why are people so interested in Israel then? What makes it more interesting to everyone than every other country that's committed atrocities?

[–] Fuzzy_Dunlop@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Probably because of the amount of money they receive. If I understand correctly, they're set to receive billions of dollars a year through 2028 because of a commitment made by Obama. The US military has its hands in everything and spends money anywhere, buy I think it's always been disproportionately generous with Israel, and in spite of war crimes it's committed.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That is a very good question. You'll note that they never have anything bad to say about Russia, for example, despite them doing far worse to their neighbours.

[–] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is critiquing a nation that’s committing gross human rights violations antisemitic?

I could understand reasons to dislike Mexicans and blacks.

What reasons do Americans have for being racist toward each other? None. Give me a “good” reason for racism. This should be good.

[–] AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol 0 points 1 year ago

To be clear, I don't hold the opinions that I'm talking about, it's just that they seem to be internally consistent and have an identifiable origin.

If you strongly identify with your race or culture, and another race or culture threatens to conflict with, up-end, or destroy it, it makes sense to dislike/distrust that second race or culture. That's what some people could perceive Mexicans or black people to be doing.

I'm sorry if I misjudged, but it does feel weird. The only thing that makes Israel unique (including any human rights violations, everyone does that) is its ties to Judaism. I just don't know what either Isreal or jews did to warrant a meme like this when so many like them never get memes made of them.