In yet another reality-denying ritual of fealty to the pro-Israel lobby, members of Congress absurdly voted to say Israel was neither an apartheid state nor racist. Only a few progressives, including members of the Squad, stood firm in opposing the measure.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Hmm, you seem to be on to something here. So what you are saying is that if you conquer a place, and then take away the citizens of that place right to self-determination and start genociding them, that by definition that is an apartheid state… But how can that be if another state also does the same thing?

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      1 year ago

      Israel must be really bad at genocide since the Palestinian population in the West Bank has been rising for decades.

      Weird how effective the IDF is at everything but killing innocent people…

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      1 year ago

      Genocide, too, huh?

      Listen, when your hatred for Israel is so blind that you are just slapping on whatever evil label you can think of, you’re just hurting your own case.

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          1 year ago

          So do I. But if you’ll notice, this isn’t Israel policy, and when individual soldiers step out of line they are immediately investigated and punished.

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              1 year ago

              Correct, instead they have “Basic Laws” which uphold human rights, civil Rights, and equal justice. Everything you’d want from a constitution.