Luckily there’s only so much manipulation you can use to cover up what people are seeing right in front of their faces. In the short term things look ugly, but in the long term I have a hard time imagining Israel ever recovering from this. All the young people who’ve witnessed history’s first live-streamed genocide are going to be running the world someday, and they are not going to want to have anything to do with the state of Israel.
This is excellent advice. Convince those close to you, but don’t waste time with people online who aren’t really interested in “conversation” beyond spreading propaganda. Get your message out as you need, but the evidence of genocide will outrun the charade without needing to engage the bullshit spout at every step.
Israel has reinforced every negative stereotype type about Judaism unfortunately. There are many good Jews, but I have a hard time thinking the people in Israel that have shown they basically own the politicians of wealthy nations, aren’t Jewish themselves. Saying Jews control the world may be a antisemitic stereotype, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
My comment isn’t talking about Jews at all. One doesn’t have to be a Jewish person to be spouting Israeli propaganda (see as an example, all the US Republican and Democrat politicians of various ethnic backgrounds who are perfectly capable of doing so).
Try not to conflate being anti-Israel/anti-IDF/anti-fascist with being anti-Jew.
You’re missing my point. I was doing the opposite. Like I said there are many good Jewish people against what the Israeli government is doing. I was stating that Israel is fueling these negative stereotypes & making them appear to be valid. Israel is the one saying they represent Jewish people. For example, one negative stereotype that has been considered antisemitic is that the Jews control the news. Who has the overwhelming percentage of our news & media defended, despite clear evidence of genocide? Or another is that Jews control the world… Who has a majority of our most powerful world leaders defended? Israel is reinforcing those stereotypes, thus fueling antisemitism. My point wasn’t that extremist Jews or even non-Jews claiming to be Jewish, represent all Jews, but the opposite.
I understand that Israel is the one attempting to conflate its genocidal campaign with the Jewish faith and bolster Jewish stereotypes, while many Jewish groups are speaking out against that and calling for peace. However, the last sentence of your earlier comment especially, was worded more like you were trying to give credence to those stereotypes instead of rejecting them.
