I am a right-wing feminist, so reddit has banned me on a number of fronts.

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I think israel does run a lot of things in USA and other western countries, to say that gets you labeled antisemitic and an unperson

Criticizing Jews qua Jews gets you this, but criticizing Israel is downright fashionable. Powerful Jewish figures and institutions ranging from Jon Stewart to the New York Times hate Israel. It's fashionable for the same reason that criticizing cops and white people is fashionable.

If you think for yourself there is no downside to BDS.

I see a downside to it because I applaud what Israel is doing (enforcing its borders, protecting its heritage population, and keeping Islam marginalized), and wish the West could do the same. If there's an economic upside to tariffs, then let's apply them in an economically optimal fashion, not a fashion designed to scold Israel for not wanting to get swamped by Africans.

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yeah well fashiionable just because it's the only way to do that, and even that is getting towards being disallowed in all facets of society. I find it kind of like the streisand effect. Them telling me to not criticize Israel is what made me look more into it, more into conspiracy theories about jews, seeing a lot of truth in who rules us. Jon Stewart hates Israel? I did like his show and he spoke truth to power but that might be why he lost his show and isn't as in the media as much anymore. Does NY times support BDS? I suppose there must have been opinion pieces on it. I don't really read that.

I guess I do understand too why Israel enforces borders, and I kind of feel like if Palestineans don't like it, they should just move. But if I say if black people don't like it in America they should just move, that looks racist. Both whites in America and Israelis in Judea stole land for natives. The only problem here is when Israel enccourages other countries to have open borders while enforcing their borders stringently at the same time, it's that hypocrisy again which agitates me.