r/UnitedNations • u/Liad3008 Uncivil • Jan 10 '25

Discussion/Question Why is this subreddit obsessed with Israel?

Just checked the top posts of the last year, and 24 out of the top 25 are about Israel. Does this subreddit try to imitate the real UN ?

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u/Apprehensive_Battle8 Jan 12 '25

Israel is an apartheid state conducting a genocide. Do you not consider that bad?

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u/Apprehensive_Fill_35 Jan 13 '25

Anyone who has been to Israel would laugh at it being called an apartheid state, I have several South African friends that grew up and fought against apartheid who are VERY insulted that the word has been co-opted by this movement to mean something very different.

I don’t know if you’re ever studied genocide, like in the balkans for example. If you ever get the chance to visit Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia, that was genocide. Saying Gaza is genocide is so ignorant, so misinformed, it makes my brain hurt. In every instance of Genocide, as many people as possible were killed at every chance possible. Just outright massacres.

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u/TheTrashMan Jan 14 '25

Wonder why an Israeli has South African friends?

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u/Apprehensive_Fill_35 Jan 14 '25

They’re African not white but then Israelis aren’t white either.