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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You know, as much as it doesn't feel true, I really can't think of a different reason why this is being allowed. The people in the bible are called Jews, and even though they don't much resemble the modern ethnic-religious group, that gives them special status in places traditionally Christian.

Technically being a Jew myself, I'm afraid it's going to swing back the other way because of all of this, and antisemitism will be cool again. That's a distant second concern to the people dying non-hypothetically right now, though.

[-] BMTea@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a truth that's buried very, very deep for a number of reasons, not least of which is the horrors of the Holocaust and the role that the memory of it plays as an alibi for liberal atrocities and violence. Today, hundreds of Arabs can be exterminated in a 24 hour period and the Holocaust will still be invoked as an alibi.

The other reason is the way in which religion is still a powerful but "hidden" hand in secular nations. It's not-so-hidden in American politics, where megachurch pastors are openly proclaiming the extermination of Gazans is divine punishment. Even in Europe, major state-linked churches like the Church of England have open links to Israeli religious settlement programs and make no bones of their unconditional support for Israel.

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