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In reply to the discussion: The left needs to handle its antisemitism problem - Now. [View all]Happy Hoosier
(9,688 posts)To use a popular phrase, I've seen enough.
The left tens to empathize with the underdog, and we don;t like oppression.
For that reason, most of us feel some sympathy for the Palestinian peoples who have been oppressed by right-wing Israeli governments.
Unfortunately, that sympathy has morphed into gullibility to some. They have bought the tale of victimhood peddaled by disingenuous activists who are deeply Antisemitic at their very root. They have told a tale of peaceful indigenous farmers cruelly displaced by Jewish European Colonizers.
And inthe process, have completely forgetten the context of Jewish emmigration from Europe, and perhaps never knew the Imperialist history of "Palestine."
The problem is complex, but people tend to want to boil things down to good guys and bad guys.