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Hmm, I wonder why the German left would be sympathetic to the Jews having a secure homeland where they aren't attacked by people who deny their right to exist.
Yes, but you’d also expect Germans to speak up against perpetrators of genocide.
You’d expect Jewish people to do the same, and yet here we are…
They are, and they have been going to jail.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/jewish-protest-israel-gaza-washington-dc
In Germany, though, there is "a new kind of McCarthyism" surrounding opposing genocide and war crimes when the perpetrator is Israel.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-17/germany-israel-gaza-antisemitism-holocaust-genocide-palestinians-solidarity
That's the whole point.
Based Anti-Zionist Jewish community flying Palestinian flags in Jerusalem
Some are. Some arent.
Sure, in a hypothetical reality where denazification was successful.
“There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
If you wanted Jews to be secure, Palestine isn’t the place. It is already has its own people, the Palestinians.
"Secure homeland"
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