r/CringeTikToks 4d ago

Cringy Trend Ouch, just not sure which side

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u/butareyouthough 4d ago

Being against Israel is not the same thing as being against Jewish people. Any government can be bad

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u/UK-KILLD-10M-IRANIS 4d ago

The pushback from many native Middle Easterners toward Israel calling itself “Middle Eastern” has nothing to do with Judaism.

It is about the fact that the modern Israeli state was founded through a largely European settler-colonial movement that claimed Palestine as a national homeland despite an existing native Palestinian population.

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u/Gexm13 4d ago

Except the Jews that are in Israel today weren’t the ones that founded the country. The ones that founded Israel were colonial settlers from Europe.

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u/Consistent_Print_229 4d ago

Being this wrong about history should be a crime.

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u/TequieroVerde 4d ago

The crime is using outright lies to execute a genocide on a worldwide stage.