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"The Jews are secretly running things to the detriment of the common person" has been a right-wing conspiracy theory for a long time, going well before even the
by crooked-v 6mo ago
"The Jews are secretly running things to the detriment of the common person" has been a right-wing conspiracy theory for a long time, going well before even the invention of modern politics.
With that said, I think the video, looked at as a propaganda piece, threads the needle about as well as possible - it sticks strictly to referring to Israel as a country, but also just as importantly frames Trump as the primary actor rather than taking direction from Israel.
- fiddeert 6mo ago[flagged]
- deaux 6mo agoEquating the government and its president to Jews in general is a massive disservice, and truly antisemitic, towards the hundreds of thousands of Jews[0] who directly oppose them. The video showed the former. I realize that the second part of your comment means you're not doing so, but the person saying that the video at that timestamp showed an anti-semitic trope, was doing so. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Voice_for_Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Voice_for_Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IfNotNow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IfNotNow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Together_(movement) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Together_(movement) Among dozens of other smaller groups.