I feel like I know the answer to this Q, but all over the place are articles lamenting about “the left” and their support for the slaughter of civilians. Yet, I haven’t seen a single one lamenting about “The Right” and their acceptance of apartheid.

Anyone know of one? Should someone write one? It’s all so frustrating.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I’m not sure that’s really a thing that exists. If fascists were capable of self-reflection like that they wouldn’t be fascists. There are tons of papers and articles and books telling Zionists that they’re turning themselves in to fucking monsters through this reckless, merciless pursuit of fascism, and that Bibi pulling Kahanists in to government to save his own ass is evidence of how dangerous and out of hand things have gotten. There are lots of Rabbis and scholars who will go on in detail about how Zionism is sacriligious, or it’s against fundamental principles of the Torah and Talmud, or how it just sucks. There’s tons of stuff. But fascists don’t care about any of that shit. They’re fascists. They want an enemy they can destroy so they feel strong. They want to unite the volk. They want a strong, muscular leader. They want to feel like they’re part of a vital, powerful, masculine society.

    I think most if not all major media outlets are pro-apartheid and pro-slaughter because that’s what serves the interests of the hegemonic blob. Israel is America/NATOs miltiary base so if Israel wants to slaughter some inconsequential arabs they’re all in. None of them really think of Arabs as human or capable of civilization so they don’t give a shit. Anti-Semitism is a really good hammer for de-legitimizing leftists or really just anyone with basic human empathy, smashing guys like Corbyn or us or lots of other people to side line public voices opposing the violence of the right-wing hegemons. Zionists can even use it to isolate and pressure anti-Zionist Jews.

    Apartheid doesn’t cost anyone in the west anything. They get to sell lots of cool guns and gizmos to the Zionists. The Gazans are hopelessly impoverished, they don’t have anything the West wants except bodies that can be used for target practice. Like where would you even find people who cared in government? France is France, they fucking hate Arabs. The English are racist against everyone. America doesn’t think brown people are humans. Germany is Germany.

    Like you’re not going to see Zionists being like “Woah, guys, idk, maybe we went too far” because the creation of this mythical a-historic struggle between strong, muscular Zionists who are saving Jewish people from the endless hordes of anti-Semitic untermensch is their entire thing. It’s one of the core mythologies on which their fascism is built. Anything their enemies do to resist or fight them is because they’re inhuman anti-Semite monsters who have a natural and inescapable frothing hatred for Jews that compels them to try to destory all the Jews everywhere forever. And anything the Zionists do to anyone else; Jewish, Arab, or otherwise, is completely, naturally, unquestionably justified; Of course they have a right to take whatever they want from Palestinians. The Palestinians are just monsters who would just breed new generations of Palestinians to kill Jews if the IDF didn’t regularly “Mow the lawn”. And any Jewish people who oppose Zionism are weak, snivveling, self hating-Jews who don’t understand what needs to be done and actually when you think about it opposing Zionists in their righteous struggle to save the world for Jewish people is basically treason.

    Fascists gonna fash. Like yeah, individaul fascist are individuals, people are different, they believe different things for different reasons. But as a big socio-political movement with a lot of energy and inertia Zionism, and it’s allies are not likely to have some moment of introspection and collectively change direction. Any more than we would just wake up one day and be like “Actually wages and private property are cool”. They believe what they believe about the world. The world they perceive supports and reinforces their beliefs. They think they’re right and what they’re doing makes sense and is reasonable and is necessary and everyone else is insane and evil and just hates Jewish people for totally immaterial but unavoidable reasons.