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how does this fit with the anti Semitic globalist narrative

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Punching down is far different than punching up
This over simplifies things drastically, but killing a baby is always punching down.

While I would still loathe Hamas, if they had solely attacked the IDF, I would be more forgiving. They attacked defenceless civilians. I just don't see how being oppressed gives one a carte blanche to do these sort of things.

The opressed/oppressor dichotomy is a clean but overly simple way of looking at this situation. The reality of Hamas is that they consist of a moneyed elite who live opulent lives far from Gaza and use violence and extortion to maintain political control over the people there. The left cannot seem to see that real life is nuanced and that they find themselves supporting oppressive jihadists speaks to a deep ideological decay, one that I'm appalled and ashamed to see.
 
What's the main difference? Does the US just have much better propaganda/PR teams? Or has the world learned from the mistakes the US made in responding to terrorism?
The difference is in deep seated antisemitism that is taking root and hold over the youth of today. Hamas are successfully exploiting the internet and the current antisemitic trends among the youth to their advantage.

I don’t know why or how it’s happening but young people hate the Jews again like it’s 1937 or something. It’s disturbing, and another expression of how backwards our global cultural trends are becoming.

That’s the only difference. Young people are eating up the propaganda. The only difference between those protesting against Israel, and the Nazis of the 1930s, is the clothes they wear. These Hamas sympathizers might as well start flying swastika flags.
 
The difference is in deep seated antisemitism that is taking root and hold over the youth of today. Hamas are successfully exploiting the internet and the current antisemitic trends among the youth to their advantage.

I don’t know why or how it’s happening but young people hate the Jews again like it’s 1937 or something. It’s disturbing, and another expression of how backwards our global cultural trends are becoming.

That’s the only difference. Young people are eating up the propaganda. The only difference between those protesting against Israel, and the Nazis of the 1930s, is the clothes they wear. These Hamas sympathizers might as well start flying swastika flags.
Antizionism is not the same as antisemitism
 
When you find yourself on the side of a group that wish for the Jews to be removed from the area "from the river to the sea" and make their wishes explictly known via torture, rape, and murder, it's a distinction without a difference.
No antizionism is not a desire for removal, its a desire to stop removal of nonJews from Israel on no other basis than them not having a certain religion
 
I don’t know why or how it’s happening but young people hate the Jews again like it’s 1937 or something
I think it's linked to conspiracy culture. There has been that long standing conspiracy about how Jews control the world and all the money, so naturally people think they have a hand in everything they don't like. When the people against covid vaccines came forward with all sorts of their theories, along with Q anon, people really started to become obsessed with conspiracies. They became mainstream, not just as a hobby or special interest, but as their actual political viewpoint.

Many of the people who subscribe to those theories also happen to be conservatives. The extreme right has always hated Jews.

Plus the whole Kanye thing, it all sort of blends together. It's like "pop culture antisemitism".

All that and probably the fact that the Holocaust seems like a distant memory now. There aren't many people alive in the world who experienced that first hand.
 
What I don't believe in Israel's right to create an apartheid state, which is what they've done. Whether or not a country has a right to exist isn't the point, it's how a country treats people
 
Antizionism is not the same as antisemitism
I agree, there is a difference. In that video from Dagestan with the people rushing the plane, the title is "antisemitism".... but maybe they're just against Israel and the actions of their government, and not Jews in general?

Although the anti-defamation league disagrees and says they are the same: "While anti-Zionism is indeed antisemitism, anti-Zionism is much more socially acceptable than classic antisemitism. "

 
Many of the people who subscribe to those theories also happen to be conservatives. The extreme right has always hated Jews.
And yet conservative culture is pro-Israeli, even all the way up to Trump who moved the US embassy to Jerusalem.

It feels weird when those who defend Israel and the Jewish people are those considered to be xenophobic and hateful, yet those who defend Hamas’s terrorism and barbarity tend to lean far to the left and call for the extermination of the state of Israel.

Very confusing. I’m not a die hard Republican but at least the GOP stands behind Israel.

Plus polls show that those under 35 years of age seem to be the most antisemitic now… so yeah, I blame the internet and conspiracy culture for this antisemitic revival.
 
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I agree, there is a difference. In that video from Dagestan with the people rushing the plane, the title is "antisemitism".... but maybe they're just against Israel and the actions of their government, and not Jews in general?

Although the anti-defamation league disagrees and says they are the same: "While anti-Zionism is indeed antisemitism, anti-Zionism is much more socially acceptable than classic antisemitism. "


They're not really much for diplomacy.
 
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