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Israel in its current form has existed for ~2.2% of the history of the Jewish people. Antisemitism has existed for most of that time.

If Israel wasn't Jewish, it wouldn't need the PR. See: all the other countries doing far worse things, that nobody cares about.

Who would've thought creating a nation within the territory of another would be met with hatred from those who's homes were stolen...

Countries can change wildly in a generation. They don't get a good behavior pass for historical dates when different people were in power or even alive.

So as long as Israel is jewish we should let it do whatever it wants? What exactly would Israel have to do to the Palestinians before they cross the line in your opinion?

No, I'm not saying you should let it do whatever it wants. I'm saying you shouldn't have a double standard where only Israel's victims get you exercised and not those of China[1], Russia[2], Syria[3], Sudan[4], Pakistan[5], Turkey[6], Yemen[7] and more.

This isn't whataboutism. This is asking about a double standard. The world failed to get anywhere near as excited about the other cases. If that applies to you as well, I'd love to hear an explanation why that doesn't include the J-word.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Sudan_(2023%E2%80%93pre...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_undocumented_Af...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_in_Turkey_(2016%E2%80%9...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%9...

I agree with you. Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians should stop and the mistreatment those countries do should also stop and I don’t think we should let any of those countries do want they want with the excuse that some other country is also doing a similar bad thing.

I also think that when criticizing China we don’t need to bring up criticism of Israel in some kind of “equal criticism” principle to avoid offending China or visa vera.

Genuinely asking you. Why do you think only one of these conflicts triggers protests around the world? The first protests even before Israel fired a single shot?

Nothing they haven't been pushed to.

What about their attempts to push out the Armenians from Jerusalem, or seizure of the property in Beit Sahour?

What pushed them to that?

What do you mean?

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