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How can we still continue to call Israel a liberal society when their entire political class is banning and censoring opposition media? Interfaith marriages are
by SauciestGNU 2y ago
How can we still continue to call Israel a liberal society when their entire political class is banning and censoring opposition media? Interfaith marriages are illegal. Gay marriage is illegal (not unusual for the region, but since Israel likes to trot out the rainbow flags it bears repeating). It's the thinnest possible vaneer of "western values" slapped over a colonial military outpost.
- wslh 2y ago[flagged]
- SauciestGNU 2y agoSo your response is a seven year old video asserting I'm simply ignorant? Not a particularly winning argument. And flagging your initial response since you've now edited in baseless accusations of antisemitism. That's not how you have a conversation here.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Focusing obsesively in Israel is antisemitism Israel is front-page news because it's an American ally. Sudan and Myanmar are not. People are focussing on it because it's being talked about.
- exe34 2y ago> gay marriage is illegal Is that the bar now? Gay people get thrown from buildings next door in Gaza and they get strung up from a crane in Iran. On that basis, as a gay man, I'd much rather let Israel "trot out the rainbow flags" than take my chances with their enemies.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Gay people get thrown from buildings next door in Gaza and they get strung up from a crane in Iran Nobody argued Hamas, Iran or even the Palestinian people, are liberal.
- exe34 2y agoNobody claimed rain fell upwards either.
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- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> when their entire political class is banning and censoring opposition media? This is not a dead disqualifier for a liberal society. Practically everyone but America does it.