@wdlindsy indeed, there are "shared values" of dispossession and genocide. Like Hitler, Zionists admire this part of US history.
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gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 08:29:04 JST gnutelephony -
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 08:29:05 JST William Lindsey :toad: "The suggestion that I want to make about the reason that pro-Palestine activism is so frightening to certain groups of Americans, particularly Americans who are the most deeply invested in America’s founding myths, the reason they find pro-Palestinian activism’s threat to Israel’s legitimacy so frightening is not just because they care so much about Israel. It’s because they see the assault on Israel’s legitimacy as an assault on America’s legitimacy…."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 08:29:06 JST William Lindsey :toad: "When the state legislature in Arkansas passes a law that basically makes it impossible to work for the state of Arkansas if you want to boycott Israel, I don’t think that’s only about Israel. I think it has, in a state like Arkansas where there are very few Jews, it has also to do with America."
"In a state like Arkansas where there are very few Jews and where right-wing Trump-voting Republicans rule the roost, he might have added…."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 08:29:08 JST William Lindsey :toad: Peter Beinart offers interesting analysis of why a significant cadre of Americans are so hostile to pro-Palestine activism and so fervently Zionist: this has to do, he proposes, with the religious outlook of Americans driving uncritical support for Israel and hostility to Palestine.
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"Remember, the biggest pro-Israel organization in the United States is Christians United for Israel. It’s not a Jewish organization."
#Israel #Palestine #evangelicals
/1https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/challenging-israels-legitimacy-also
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