• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Quite a few downvotes from Germans, even more than I expected. A lot of Germans are confidently incorrect about Zionism, Zionists, and the settler-colonial state of Israel.

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      2 months ago

      Losurdo has a few good chapters specifically about a lot of the modern german ideological support for zionism in his book War and Revolution.

      It’s a really complicated subject, dealing with the historical guilt from the judeocide, and supporting Israel being an easy and surface-level way to alleviate that guilt.

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        2 months ago

        supporting Israel being an easy and surface-level way to alleviate that guilt.

        No doubt reinforced by enormous amounts of hasbara.