• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    You can support Israel’s right to exist while still condemning the genocide and other human rights abuses that they commit. These things are not mutually exclusive.

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      "You can support Nazi Germany’s right to exist while still condemning the Holocaust

      This statement is fully comparable without any exaggeration.

      It is mutually exclusive. Anyone who supports the existence of an Apartheid built on genocide supports genocide. There are no its and buts.

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        That’s just a bad-faith, black-and-white view. Nazi Germany had the right to exist, but they didn’t have the right to invade other countries, exterminate Jews, Romani, gay people, etc. It’s not the existence of the state, or even the beliefs of the people running the state, but the actions that matter.

        You can be the most racist, homophobic, misogynist Christian asshole in the world, and as long as you don’t act on your beliefs, it’s not a problem.

        If Israel ceases it’s genocidal actions, and ceases treating Palestinians like sub-humans, then there’s no issue.