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posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 10:34am on 2018-01-03
True.

Jewish people, of late, have been having much more high-stakes arguments than previously. Unsurprisingly, it’s about the fact that half of us know that the Palestinian occupation is a horrible, horrible oppression that should never have happened while the other half are justifying it.
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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 05:44am on 2018-01-04
Yeah, I thought of this while reading this -- it was my only point of disagreement with this excellent explanation.
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posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 10:36am on 2018-01-04
Yeah, I was thinking of saying “Jews too” but then I remembered horrible things fellow Jews have said to my face and refused to back down from. Many of them reject Black Lives Matter because BLM supports Palestinians! And then there are the people who forget that perhaps the Jewish person they’re whining to about “those people” may be receiving government assistance themselves.
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 07:03am on 2018-01-04
Beaten to the punch!
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posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 10:32am on 2018-01-04
Yeah, I was thinking of saying “Jews too” but then I remembered horrible things fellow Jews have said to my face and refused to back down from. The Harold Feld quote from a few days back explains why, but it doesn’t excuse it. (Also, Harold is an awesome and kind person and one of many people I never, ever, EVER discuss Israel with.)

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