All week I have been hearing this dumb shit on the radio about this congresswoman who made some comments about AIPAC and how our politicians shouldn't be influenced by foreign countries and how the blatant allegiance to Israel in American politics isn't healthy.
Predictably, this prompted a round of gross blatant allegiance to Israel from US politicians across the board, mostly saying things like "the comments were shockingly antisemitic" and "we just can't believe someone would say that after what the country of Israel went through in the Holocaust" (actual quote)
The most alarming thing to me was that these rebukes of "antisemitism" seemed to be the dominant political response across the board and they weren't called out for the ridiculous, reductive and politically manipulative arguments they are - NPR just accepted this and proceeded forward as if this was a reasonable response to the situation and let the assumption stand that calling out AIPAC, one of the biggest lobbying influences in US politics, was somehow inherently antisemitic.
Let's discuss. Is disliking AIPAC antisemitic? What about disagreeing with the current actions and attitudes of modern-day Israel? How many Jewish things is it acceptable to dislike before somebody becomes a virulent antisemite and Holocaust denier?
Itâs not anti-Semitic. Thereâs very valid criticism of Israeli influence over our own politicis and of their own choices within Israeli. The us has turned a blind eye to them for decades
It becomes anti semitic when people start saying âi hate Israeli because theyâre jewsâ not when itâs âwow these Jews are doing some real fucked up shitâ
Israel_palestine should rebrand as a unified state with two cultures instead of trying to sustain some sort of pecking order. Thereâs no way to change the past of zionist terrorists forcing Palestinians out of their homes; why not just accept that the ethnostate glove doesnât fit and work towards unity instead of divisiveness
at my exâs school there was so much birthright shit EVERYWHERE like advertisements, student shit etc. there were literally 12 Zionist groups on campus i believe
yes why would the jewish colleges not support israel? Youâll find that they do anything to make sure students dont care about Palestine and paint israel as the victims.
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The two Golem 12-inches released so far are the duoâs strongest and most self-contained material to date. Thatâs largely thanks to the seriesâ overarching concept, which uses the metaphor of the golemâa creature from Jewish mythology, animated to protect its people but which eventually turns upon its creatorsâto explore the difficult questions surrounding the current state of Israel. Just as there are no concrete answers to the questions raisedâvia track titles, artwork and a press release that reads, only half-jokingly, âand who said dance music couldnât be about the Holocaust?ââso the music it contains is terse and ambiguous. These are dark and brooding meditations on very pertinent issues, and in Juju & Jordashâs hands, techno feels like the most powerful conduit for their delivery.
â was just poor taste