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The biggest problem I can see is that Israeli Nationalists deliberately conflate "Jews" and "Israelis". This is a short-term advantage for the "Israelis" as any
by simonblack 3y ago
The biggest problem I can see is that Israeli Nationalists deliberately conflate "Jews" and "Israelis". This is a short-term advantage for the "Israelis" as any criticism of 'Zionist Israeli Policies' can advantageously be denounced as 'anti-semitic'.
On the other hand, being conflated with "Israelis" is a long-term problem for the "Jews", whether they be 'Zionists', 'Israelis' or not.
During WW2 The Allies happily conflated "Nazis" and "Germans", so that every dead German was considered to be a 'Dead Nazi'. The point here is that it took at least a whole generation, about 30 years, before Germans were considered 'Germans' again, and not automatically 'Nasty Nazis'.
Likewise, I believe it will take the "Jews" probably more than a generation to throw off that epithet of "Israeli Apartheid" and all the opprobrium that goes with that after the "Israelis" eventually learn to reintegrate with the rest of the world. Something which could easily have been prevented by the Jews themselves not accepting the conflation of "Israeli" and "Jew".
- mbg721 3y agoFor the US (and maybe the rest of the Allies), the anti-German sentiment was more true in WWI; Japan got it far worse in WWII.