Caitlin Johnstone: Israel Supporters Would Defend Literally Any Israeli Atrocity

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[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

“Israel could _______ and people would defend it” with something that wouldn’t be true. Most of the insanely evil things you could put in that space are already actually being done. Genocide? They’re already doing that. Murdering babies? They’re already doing that. Killing thousands of children? Already doing that. Deliberately targeting and assassinating journalists, artists and scholars? Already doing that.

I don't know why anyone is surprised. Israel is trying to reconstitute the ancient Israelite society as described in the bible/tanakh. Including demolishing the Dome of the Rock mosque and building a Davidic (fictional character) Israelite temple on that site (which has never had a Hebrew temple before).

My problem with this: Israelite society was literally founded on child sacrifice. Yes, human sacrifice. It's not a secret, it's mentioned in the bible multiple times and there is archaeological evidence that this practice was common throughout the Levant, up until mid- or late- Roman times. There's even a word to describe the headstones made for victims of child sacrifice: tophet.

Some notes:

A Note on Burning Babies - Morton Smith - Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 477-479

The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity by Jon D. Levenson (highly recommended, very accessible book)

Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel - Heath D. Dewrell - Series: Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations - Volume: 5 - 2017 Pages: 236

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I considered posting this on Reddit, but I'm pretty sure this is the one that would finally get me banned site-wide.

[–]Maniak🥃😾[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Israel supporters are like, “No no you don’t understand, the side that’s killing babies and incinerating families and assassinating journalists and starving civilians and bombing cultural heritage sites and carpet bombing entire neighborhoods and driving an indigenous people off their land are the GOOD guys.”

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Israel supporters will defend any evil — literally any evil — as long as it is being perpetrated by their favorite regime. There are zero constraints of any kind, because Israel supporters are completely uninterested in morality. If they were, they wouldn’t be supporting one of the most immoral governments on this planet even after all it has done in the last two months.

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A new Israelis study found that Israel is killing civilians in Gaza at a significantly higher rate than civilians were killed in the world wars of the 20th century. Military analysts have said that the destruction in northern Gaza is comparable to the most aggressive World War II bombing campaigns in places like Dresden, Hamburg and Cologne.

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Israel apologists often cite the fact that the majority of Jews support Israel to substantiate their ridiculous position that opposition to Israel is anti-semitic, but that statistic is not actually morally relevant or logically interesting. Any population that’s sufficiently saturated with propaganda and indoctrination will wind up mostly supporting the thing they’re being propagandized and indoctrinated into supporting; that’s the purpose of propaganda and indoctrination.

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The funny thing about the claim that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism is that most Zionists aren’t even Jewish. The majority of them are Christians who hope all Jewish people go to Israel so that Jesus will return, then Jewish people get to either repent and convert to Christianity or go to hell.

What that means is, in a very real and quantifiable way, most Zionists are actual anti-semites.

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The fake epidemic of genocidal chants on campus reminds me of the fake epidemic of Russian propaganda, when “Russian propaganda” was defined as “any criticism of US foreign policy”. Falsely define common pro-Palestine chants as calls to genocide Jews and you can then declare an epidemic of genocidal rhetoric.

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Just spitballing here but maybe the most efficient way to prevent western youth from becoming radicalized against Israel is not to censor the internet and kill free speech at universities but to make Israel stop murdering thousands of innocent people.