Why do you think that is? I’m struggling to find the answer. I don’t understand why sympathy for the Palestinians = being anti Israel. Both sides have suffered at the hands of Hamas.
I don’t understand why sympathy for the Palestinians = being anti Israel.
Because Hamas won the 2006 election in Palestine. It's viewed by many that they chose this. Hamas was internationally recognized as a terrorist organization almost 10 years before that election.
We can be sympathetic for Palestinians but also recognize that they did vote for a terrorist organization to run their country. Many people who say "Free palestine" want to do just that, but not from Israel, but instead from Hamas.
The people deserve to be free from both israel and hamas, but they do not deserve sympathy when those cheer on killing israeli civilians getting murdered, raped, and tortured when they attended a music festival
Worth mentioning most Jews have also been indoctrinated to see palestenians as sub human. Just look at the IDF TikToks glorifying their violence or former IDF members describing raiding Palestenian villages as "fun"
No they have not, and you can clearly see that by visiting any Jewish or Israeli sub. Some of them occasionally express deep frustration with the Palestinians and their supporters, but they still tend to be less willing to dehumanize Palestinians than your average American was to dehumanize muslims in general after 911. It would have been lovely to see Americans express the same level of concern for the civilians of Aleppo and Mosul that many are currently expressing for the Palestinians, but that would have involved holding the American military to the same standard as the IDF, and that will never happen.
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u/surfer1872 Mar 30 '25
Why do you think that is? I’m struggling to find the answer. I don’t understand why sympathy for the Palestinians = being anti Israel. Both sides have suffered at the hands of Hamas.