r/Israel • u/Middle_Ad_8052 • Mar 15 '24

Photo/Video An anti-Israel protester claims most Israelis are light-skinned and blonde.

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It’s amazing that she thinks most Israelis are light skinned and blonde and are not brown.

Obviously, she has never visited Israel. Leaving aside the fact that most Jews in Israel are brown, how is it that a people who were persecuted for not being European and sent to the gas chambers 80 years ago are suddenly considered white?

On a side note, how have they normalized this racism against white people? Why do we accept ANY racism against ANY race or skin color?

This is not about the Palestinians and Israel, this is pure bigotry and lies.

The progressive movement has gone too far. It's the Jews and Israel now, but it won't end there.

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Anti israel protester thinks most Israelis are light skinned and blonde, how have they normalized this racism against white people?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Even if all Jews were blond haired blue eyed Aryan ubermenschen, telling people that they do not belong in a place because of their physical characteristics is still racism.

They are challenging you to defend your genetics, your appearance, and your ancestors.

Do not play their game. Call out the game and refuse to play it.

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u/goingup11 Mar 15 '24

She has no problem going to America, even though she isn't native to that land.

Hypocrite

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u/Wild-Dragonfly4891 Mar 15 '24

She's a frigging colonizer. That's the hypocrisy I can't stand.

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u/Right-Drama-412 Mar 15 '24

it's only bad if you're a WHITE colonizer. Otherwise, colonize away!

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u/InvincibleStolen Mar 16 '24

literally she even would be considered white maybeee half arab where i am like c'mon you can't say she's not white presenting (not that that should matter).

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u/Wild-Dragonfly4891 Mar 15 '24

Why is she allowed to be racist?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

The first amendment.

People are allowed to be racist, we can just call them out on it.

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u/Smalandsk_katt Sweden Mar 15 '24

That isn't good though. Anti-Semites shouldn't be allowes to speak publicly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Speech is free for the thought that we love and the thought that we hate in the US.

As long as there isn't a clear and present danger, you're protected to say whatever nonsense you'd like.

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u/Cookieman_2023 Mar 15 '24

Except that speech isn’t always protected. If you say anything against the, such as a racist black comment, you would immediately be expelled from school and they will find ways to ruin your life through their thought policing.

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u/Past_Economist6278 Mar 15 '24

Freedom of speech isn't protected from private institutions or schools. That was never the point

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u/Bambi943 Mar 15 '24

I don’t know how so many people don’t understand that. Non Americans make sense, a lot of countries have hate speech laws. It’s other Americans that act like freedom of speech means everybody by law has to listen to them. No buddy, it means that you won’t go to prison for saying it lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

You can absolutely argue that there is a double standard on what speech is acceptable by polite society. But your framing here is absolutely batshit insane.

Still, you have a right to be batshit insane.

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u/Bambi943 Mar 15 '24

Freedom of speech not consequences. The government will not arrest you for your opinion unless it’s threatening violence or similar. You can spout off whatever crazy racist things you want, society will react to it and you can lose your job, be kicked out of school, be banned from things etc. Freedom of speech means you won’t be in trouble with the government. This is for USA.

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u/Cookieman_2023 Mar 16 '24

That’s why I want cultural Marxism crushed in the country. It’s so lackluster in logic and morals. Someone is bad only because they’re rich or more powerful than another person

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u/Bambi943 Mar 16 '24

What do you mean?

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u/FrenklanRusvelti Mar 15 '24

i understand where this is coming from, but its a real slippery slope. The benefits of free speech far outweighs the cons, even if it means people like this get to speak

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u/Smalandsk_katt Sweden Mar 15 '24

There's no benefit of allowing scumbag anti-semites to speak. Plenty of nations have hate-speech laws and are still democracies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24 edited Mar 17 '24

If what she's saying is true, obviously Jews would have been the most popular people in Germany during WWII, right? Blond hair and light eyes were prized Aryan features after all. Seriously, she doesn't even begin to make sense. And they're all smiling and clapping away in the background. This is just pure blind stupidity in action.

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u/lionelmessiah1 India Mar 15 '24

I think the point she was making was because jews are white blondes and don’t look like their neighbours , it is evidence that jews aren’t native to Israel.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

I'm sure that she's an excellent phrenologist.

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u/grreat85 Mar 16 '24

If they think they are allowed to start a war and murder others and then demand a ceasefire (while promising to continue attacking when they can until they kill all Jews) then why not this?

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u/Haunting_Birthday135 Anti-Axis Forces Mar 21 '24

Great comment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

So you're saying that white south Africans and Australians don't belong there and need to be removed?

That is a TAKE

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

This is why we loose debates

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

I'm not sure what you mean by this

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Most Jews look middle eastern some look European. Some Arabs look European. They win the argument because they have one message simplified that they are indigenous

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Only if you agree with the premise of the argument: that people who do not fit your pre-existing idea of what people from an area look like must be removed from that area.

Then you go on the offensive. Accuse them of being the same as being UKIP members or the KKK.

Accuse them of being the same as colorists within black and brown communities.

It is all the same.

And then bring it back around to the reality on the ground. Jews and Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa know that Jews and Arabs of every origin look the same. Jews and Arabs do not rely on the lazy colorism of western politics. And shame on them for bringing appearance and outright racism into a conversation where one side, Israel, says everyone belongs and the other says no one belongs but them.

Their colonialist Western mindset is leading them to project a cultural understanding of the world onto populations that do not share their mindset.

It's all true. And it rejects their black and white view of the world and turns it on their head - as should be done.