• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    As always: Judaism /= Zionism, Zionism /= Judaism

    Let’s not pretend that being a victim of the holocaust is equivalent in any way to being killed by the people whose land you’re settling

    Almost all the survivors of the Holocaust are gone, now. But many, many of them voiced their disgust for the conduct of the Israeli state before they passed. Norm Finklestien’s parents narrowly survived the camps had he has voiced righteous outrage against the conduct of Israel since he was a young man precisely because of their experience, to name one prominent person (critical support for Norman he has some other views that suck).

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      One thing Finkelstein mentioned on one of the TrueAnon eps he was on was that his parents, who were not communists, would get pissed off anytime they encountered someone trying to paint Stalin in a negative light. Apparently that was a common thing with jews of that generation, as they saw him as the liberator of their people.

      Doesn’t really have anything to do with what is being discussed here, I just thought it was interesting.