• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Authoritarians don’t want you to know this, but:

    The people are not the state.

    The state is not the people.

    Nobody is born anywhere on purpose.

    You can condemn the Israeli state without being a Nazi.

    • DudeBro@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      The problem is that “Jew” can refer to the ethnicity, the religion, or the state. The same word for 3 different groups. One of them should be denounced but people are too stupid to realize the other 2 groups aren’t necessarily the same people.

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        1 year ago

        Another problem is that Israel is an ethnostate, which is rare in the world today. Yes, you can be an Arab Israeli technically. It’s not a perfect example.

        The problem is that creating a state as a “Jewish homeland” is inherently exclusionary to non-Jews. It’s a really backwards idea since the concept of adoptive nationality arose in the late 1700s.

        France has a strong culture but is not exclusionary to it’s neighbors (Germany, Spain, etc.). Many border regions share culture with those countries. A person from the south of France has more in common with northern Italy or Spain than someone from northern France.

        Do the parts of Israel that neighbor the West Bank and Gaza have similar interchange of culture and ideas? No.