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Johnny2X2X

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Thu May 8, 2025, 09:49 AM
May 2025

This was sickening. Equating just regular Jewish people in the US with what Israel is doing in Gaza is just wrong and plain Antisemitism. Heck, the most visible Gaza supporter in my FB Feed is a Jewish kid I went to college with. Jewish Americans have nothing to do with Netanyahu, he's the leader of another country, not this one. It goes towards the common Antisemitic bit that American Jews are loyal to Israel and not the US.

People are more complex, trying to hold all Jewish people accountable for what some Jewish people are doing on the other side of the world is just as wrong as trying to hold all black people accountable for something some black person did somewhere. And even if said victims are huge supporters of what Netanyahu is doing in Gaza, violence is not the answer, and it's not like they have some power over Israel in any way.

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