The worst country in the world right now should be easy to criticize without stuff like the Khazar myth, “they run the media” protocol ramblings, holocaust denial, or calls for genocide.
I’ve put away more than one Middle-Eastern politics book in disgust after running into one of those old stink bombs. I’m like “Oh, great, a book on the one-state solution that opposes Hafrada, awesome, that’s where I’m at, even before the incredibly brutal incursions in 2008 (let alone 2012 and 2014 and the absolute horror show of 2023), this is going to be a great reference” and then a few chapters in it’s like Khazars this and Otto Frank’s ballpoint pen that and I’m like what the hell?!
You’re not helping anyone when you trot out those stale old lies.
And it’s never the right time to bring this up because I just come across as defending one of the most brutal genocidal regimes in our present day. It’s like “why are you criticizing some nerds in a prog bookshop and not Bibi and his tanks and bombs and bombs and guns?”
Because you guys were supposed to be cool, not falling for tired old nazi shit. I’m not a fan of racist American wartime propaganda either, doesn’t mean that I thought the Japanese war campaign was OK. But sure, I’ll say it again for the 99th time: what Israel is doing is wrong. Killing people by the thousands is way worse than hate propaganda. That still doesn’t make nazi propaganda remotely OK.
One simple step:
Are you talking about “the Jews”? Then you’re messing up. They’re not a monolith.
And if you then start talking about Jews in America or Europe, you’re messing up double and need to check yourself right away.