As an Australian, no we didn’t. We just had it put in context. Jews around the world are great people, the Israeli government and the hardline supporters are absolute monsters. I hope the Australian government tells them as much. Israel deserves no support and everything that may happen when it’s withdrawn.

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    “somebody was mean to us eighty years ago, so we can do whatever we want now”

    (Yes I know antisemitism predates the holocaust by millennia. Shh)

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      It would be a victim complex if they actually believed their stance, but it’s really just a classic case of the abused becoming the abuser… or, more accurately, the genocided becoming the genocider.

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        No one that was in the Holocaust is in any kind of position of power in Israel, which makes it even more pathologically disturbing.

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          They were for most of Israels history, and they taught the current gen both nationalism, and how to treat the “others”.