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Netanyahu's government was elected democratically, thus, yes, it represents YOU! A Russian person can say that Putin's dictatorship doesn't represent them, but not you.
There are more Jews that are not Israeli than Jews that are. So no, Netanyahu doesn't represent Jews like me. I was born and raised in Indiana. I don't speak or read Hebrew. I have no interest in going to Israel apart from the archaeology and I certainly don't support them.
But to people like you, I am culpable for Israel's genocide because of the big nose and the curly hair.
You're not a Jew, you're an American.
"Jew" isn't a nationality dumbass, it's an ethnicity and a religion (rather, a group of ethnicities and religions that share common cultural aspects). Do you think that Israel just suddenly became the owner of Judaism after Nakba or something, and all the other Jewish ethnicities disappeared?
That's like if you said "You're not not a Dukhobor, you're a Canadian"
You're feeding right into what Netanyahu wants, you realize? He would like to speak for all Jews and tie them all to Israel.
And he's completely wrong. American is a nationality. Judaism is a religion and culture. They are not mutually exclusive.
And if I don't like Nazis I must be a Hitler incarnate. What is wrong with you?
"Kyle, all those times I called you a Jew, I didn't mean it. You're not a Jew."
All these downvotes in your comment history and it still doesn't click huh?
"Am i a piece of shit?... Nah. Its everybody else that is wrong."
When you feel you have the right to define the identity of others, which they clearly do based on their response to me, I think "everybody else is wrong" when you're constantly disagreed with with is viewed validating their claim.
Down votes don’t mean shit. Especially when people are coded like robots to yell at anyone who doesn’t support the status quo and American exceptionalism.
Oh fuck! I am american!? 😧 and i support the status quo by not being a garbage human being on the internet!? 😮
I think you might live in a bubble bud
I hate how 50% of the users here on lemmy are all about questioning the medias coverage and support of Israel but blindly cling to the other side. Hamas has been elected too and you can't possibly think they are doing the right thing. Finally, things are not black and white. Both Hamas and the Israelian goverment commit horrific crimes and the population suffers. Blaming the people in this context would be laughable if it weren't so sad.
More than half of the people currently living in Gaza weren't at voting age when Hamas was voted in 18 years ago. Meanwhile Israel had 9 elections in that timeframe. Also if you look at polls Israelis who are critical of Netanyahu still mostly support genocide and ethnic cleansing. They are just unhappy with how Netanyahu is managing it.
Sure, but Jews are not equivalent to Israelis, which is the point of the meme OP posted.
Which i do not dispute at all. I just refuted the "Hamas was voted hurr durr" propaganda argument, which often comes in conjunction with "well the Israeli government isn't the Israeli people durr hurr", which the voting proves to be wrong too.
While Israelis arent representative of Jews in general, the Israeli government and the current genocide is representative of the current Israeli population.
That's whataboutism.
There is a line between a simile or parable and whataboutism. It is especially not whataboutism since it is connected to the subject as it concernes the war opponent and i put it into context and used it as an example for my explanation. Don't use words you don't understand or at least give an explanation if you accuse me of a logical fallacy.
And you don't know where this line is. Keep quiet then.
Again, if you accuse me of such a thing, please give an explanation. I explained every problem i had in detail and context. If all you are going to do is a "uhuh i have no arguments but keep quiet" this is not worth my time.
If it's not worth the time, why did you start it?
Netanyahu represents israel and Zionism.
The leader of Judaism was Moses. They wrote a book about it.
To be pedantic. Moses was not the leader of Judaism. In fact the term "Israelites" derives from Jacob Israel son of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abrahams other son was Ismael who is the father of the Arabs who mostly turned to the Abrahamic Religion with the Prophet Mohamed s.a.s. As for the descendants of Isaac they had many phases of having more or less on leader or being separately lead tribes, like the famous twelve tribes at the time Moses freed them from the Pharaoh. And if we look at the Torah they weren't exactly happy with Moses spiritual leadership. Either way Moses was only a short period in a time spanning thousands of years.
You do realize you can be Jewish without being Israeli? Right?
Only if OP is a citizen of Israel.
But that isn't mentioned anywhere in the meme.