cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/127040
Ultranationalist Israeli politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, wore golden noose-shaped lapel pins to a meeting on Monday in order to show their “commitment” to advancing a widely condemned bill to mandate the death penalty for “terrorists” who kill Israelis. The pins resemble the yellow ribbon pins that Israeli leaders have worn throughout their genocide to to…
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Dude, you’re not helping. There are currently Israeli’s in power that are shitty, just like when hitler was in power, Germany did. Every single country has shitty people in their past, and sometimes in the current time.
If your people experienced genocide less than 100 years ago, would you gleefully celebrate the same on another race?
Zionists == Nazis
Yes, and trump and his minions are nazis. You’re saying what I’m saying, that the people in power are shitty.
History tends to show the cultural memory for stuff like this has a shelf life. It’s a little convenient for me to say that my recollection is that it’s often about 80 years, because we happen to be 80 years after the end of WW2 right now. But I do feel I’ve seen that number before for this. It’s not that everyone has forgotten over 80 years, but that enough people have either forgotten or changed their minds or softened a bit.
Well my point stands because the ADL and other pro-Israel groups constantly bring up the holocaust and anti-semiticism all the time. So there’s not much opportunity to “forget” that it happened.