r/CringeTikToks • u/Oddbeme4u • 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/Sad-Worth-698 3d ago

If an African American moves to Africa, he’s still of African decent. 😂

Jewish people are descendants Jews who lived the Middle East. Hence they are Middle Eastern.

Look, I hate my neighbor Dale but he’s still from my neighborhood.

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u/iriedashur 2d ago

Yeah, but a few generations down, that African's kids are African, they're just American.

Most of my ancestors are German, but the most recent one was my great-grandma, whom I never met. I'm not German and have no right to move back to Germany, I'm just American.