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I decided to check out The Militant, a socialist news site, and it looks to be supporting Israel. I could be wrong and I hope I am, but wtf?

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it’s based in New York City, should not be surprised it’s run by a lot of Jewish people.

Sadly, many Jews blindly support Israel out of tribal loyalty. Like genocide is OK with them so long as it’s Jews doing the ethnic cleansing.

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

the vast majority of American support for Israel comes from the Christian Evangelical right, not from Jewish americans. I've never met a single Jewish person who actually supported isreal that was aware there was a genocide taking place. most of them have just been grossly misinformed about who lived there

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my best friends is Jewish, and while in general I think he has a fine sense of justice, he also has relatives in Israel and is susceptible to jingoistic calls to “stand with Israel”.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone had better tell AIPAC.

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they're literally number two on the list after Christians for a United israel.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Someone should tell AIPAC to up their game!