The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
The 193-member world body approved [September 13] a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
Well they might be antisemitic but they hate Arabs too, and with a much less complicated, pure and dehumanizing hatred. At least Jewish people can be mistaken for white.
Plus, if you hate Jews, don’t you want them to have their own country to fuck off to? And if they destabilize and oppress the Arab world in the process? Win-win.
Jewish interests are also just better mobilized in the US. They have a good story as our best ally in a fucked region, and they’ve succeeded in telling that story. As far back as Abraham Lincoln there has also been compassion for the Jewish people and a desire to see them in a secure homeland. But at this point that seems to be a distant third or fourth in terms of motivations to support Israel.
I think you underestimate hardcore MAGA’s antisemitism, lol. And slightly overestimate the racism (which is more ‘oldschool’)
You are not wrong about Jewish mobilization.
There’s just different stories told to different people, I think. Evangelical purists get the ‘cultural contamination’ story to sympathize with (as that’s what they want in the US). Old folks get the decades-old broadcast TV version of Israel. MAGA and oldschool Republicans get the radical islam angle, hardcore MAGA gets a kind of altered reality where Trump is actually the anti-interventionists here (as they still hate Israel), he’s just working towards that, somehow.
I really think most of the branding isn’t ‘brown people.’ Even though there is a lot of islamophobia in the US, one of MAGA’s core tenants is technically non-interventionalism, and most appeals to racism aren’t so explicit.
Yeah that’s a smart take. Most things work that way.
(friendly spell check: you mean tenet, not tenant)
I agree this is supposedly one of their tenets but it’s one they seem very idiosyncratic about. They cry non-intervention when they don’t care about something, but seem happy to call for intervention when they do. Maybe this isn’t cognitive dissonance but just having a high bar for intervention. If their bar criteria were clear, it would be easier to say so.