#i have not once met a middle eastern person who only supports palestinians bc they hate jews. not once

[menalez]

so ur argument is that “arabs” are currently risking their lives while living under dictatorships that have normalised relations with israel to protest for palestinians because *checks notes* they just hate jewish ppl?

ur argument is that “arab countries” fought israel in the 1960s as a result of israel’s hostilities against palestinians bc they just. hate jewish ppl?

ur argument is that “arab countries” which had hundreds of thousands of jewish ppl for thousands of years just woke up coincidentally the same time israel came to exist, the same time as the nakba, and suddenly expressed their hatred of jewish ppl despite coexisting with jewish ppl for centuries in a way europeans were unable to?

if u want to argue “arabs” hate each other, i can at least agree with that but to claim “arabs” hate palestinians bc palestinians r just so evil but hate jewish ppl more & therefore support palestine.. u just sound like an idiot to me.

the way zionists oversimplify the middle east & middle eastern history is genuinely insane. the way they utilise the same argument points antisemites made to justify antisemitism is insane. where else did i hear the argument that a certain population is evil, manipulative, sly and criminal and tricks others into feeling sympathy for them but no population genuinely likes them bc they’re just so sly and evil? oh.. wait yeah that’s literally what antisemites say about jewish people to justify & normalise antisemitism. and here zionists are using these same arguments to dehumanise palestinians & normalise hatred against them as somehow factual.

#don’t get me wrong antisemitism did exist in the 1900s in the middle east #and it does exist even more prominently today #but to reduce caring for palestinians as simply being out of a hatred of jewish ppl #is just. vile + stupid + tonedeaf + ignorant #there absolutely are antisemites who only support palestine bc they hate jewish ppl. but #i have not once met a middle eastern person who only supports palestinians bc they hate jews. not once #the ones that are actual activists fighting for palestine are more supportive of jewish ppl than the middle easterners #who don’t care for israel nor palestine. i’ve met more antisemitic ppl who don’t care for the conflict #than i have met activists for palestine that hate jewish ppl #and i know this bc i’ve sat in many social gatherings where there were several jewish ppl (some even israeli!!) & several palestinians #& several pro-palestine activists. and they’ve all been normal to each other #i’ve been to pro-palestine protests where jewish ppl stood alongside me and jewish ppl were treated with respect #i’ve literally seen more than enough evidence throughout my life to know that’s just racist bs #middle eastern people can actually have values and care for things btw. we aren’t just led by hatred like u want to pretend.