I excuse any and all antisemetism from palestinians and other middle easterners at this point. I can’t even imagine going through something like this and not hating the religion the zionist entity nominally fights for.
Yeah but it’s still fighting racism with racism, no? I get that it’s easy for me being a white dude from america to denounce zionism without veering off into antisemitism, sure, and I can understand why a muslim might end up hating all jews. It’s complicated for sure, but like I said I think back on what Fred Hampton said about fighting fire with fire, you don’t fight it with racism (fire) but water (solidarity).
This is exactly what Zionists want.
Well, it’s working
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Like half of Britain didn’t even want to look at a German until the mid 1960s out of pure anger over WWII
The best response possible. Norm Finkelstein says more or less this. His parents hated Germans. Not Nazis. Germans.
One of my friend’s grandparents pretty much never forgave the Japanese(not just like fascists but as a whole) for their imperial days and I cant exactly blame them at all.
A lot of my older relatives are like this. Kinda hard to let go of things when you lose your brother in the Bataan Death March or watch Japanese soldiersremoved and behead all the women in your family while you were able to hide in a crawlspace because you were a little girl. The survivor’s guilt alone left people messed up for life. And no one wants to talk about if you were a “comfort woman.” It’s just too fucking awful to think about.
Some years ago I had this Filipino neighbor who was born in the 1960s who disowned her son for marrying a Japanese person ‘because of WW2 stuff’.
The craziest thing is how she worshiped the USA for “liberating us from the Spanish and the Japanese”. Her version of the history her country was basically Filipinos getting conquered because they were stupid and then America flying in like a angel to save them multiple times and immediately flying away. Apparently, the US never did anything bad there and my historical recollection was not warmly received.
Also, her husband once, very drunkenly, pulled out a microphone and electric piano (which he had no idea how to play) and sang a 15+ minute song he wrote praising Duterte to “Make Philippines Great Again” (like it was under Marcos Sr). In the last 5 minutes he started crying, stopped “playing” the piano and the lyrics just became about how Trump was going to save America and the Philippines. Fuck knows how long that would have gone on if he didn’t vomit on the floor when he did.
I don’t know why I shared that. Maybe historically coherent racism at least makes some sense? I cant even.
My partner stopped wearing the star of david around her neck not too long ago. It seems more often than not it has been co-opted for nazism.
Fascist seem to max out at six lines in their artwork.
