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  • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
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    Yeah there’s some massive double standards when it comes to judeophobia vs literally any other kind of bigotry. For libs, I get it, since they can’t tell up from down anyway. But among commies, the royal treatment is baffling.

    Like, sure, not all Zionists are Jews and many of its most ardent supporters are Christians, but it’s also true that Jews are Zionists, almost universally so. It feels like people are ignoring the latter by constantly emphasizing the former. We should take this seriously and put blame where blame is due because Jews are supporting Zionism materially via fundraisers, stolen land sales, and outright colonization. The lionizing of judeophobia as some sort of transcendental, eternal law of nature only serves Israel.

    If Jews are racist, it’s because the poll was rigged. If Jews are criminal, it’s due to targeted misreporting. If Jews commit genocide, it’s because they were tricked into doing it. It’s ridiculous and I can’t think of a single other demographic that gets treated with kid gloves like this.

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        I’ve definitely seen leftists claim that the Assad governments were “genocidal” against Sunnis because of the high amount if Sunni casualties during the Civil War and Hafez’ crackdowns. They also point to the majority Alawite leadership within the military.

        This ignores the fact that:

        A) The majority of Syrians are Sunni, and therefore a Civil War would obviously represent that in its casualties.

        B) The Sunni ideology that was being suppressed was foreign to Syria, being Wahabbi influenced imported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab states.

        C) The point about the ethnic over represetation in the military high command could also be used against Kurds in the SDF (something they won’t bat an eye at). The reason for that Alawite dominance had more to do with the Assad family being overly represented, themselves being Alawites.

        Obviously the nepotism was a problem, but the alternative was a literal headchopping fundamentalist. Western leftists love to ignore Al-Jazeera’s Arabic coverage of the civil war. Qatar explicitly platformed Wahabbi fundamentalists that were calling for the eradication of Shias and Alawites from Syria.

        These people were not just speaking about the nepotism and corruption of the Assad family. They held Alawites, and their Shia allies, collectively responsible as a group, and called for the exact slaughter that we’re seeing against minorities in Syria today.

        It’s like western leftists brains turn off for thus topic I swear. When you tell them, “if you want to know how Israel really thinks, check the Hebrew sources” they’ll understand immediately. However when you use that same logic for Syria, and tell them to look into what the prominent Arabic media is saying, they’ll just blank face you and say that the Assads were genocidal.