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  Flaunting may not be the best word, i’m sorry, it’s late at night and i don’t think straight
context: Yeah, most of us had nothing to do with any of the above and are just trying to live normal lives like the rest of you. Accepting Jewish people doesn't mean endorsing Israeli government policy or paying reparations, neither of which I support (nor do any of my Jewish friends). >
  
  It would be easier to not conflate the two if Israel wasn’t constantly using its jewishness as a shield against criticism. 
  i.e., “bds is antisemitic”. Not blaming you for that, but just one explanation that could explain how OP lost their way. >
  
  Surely the lie told by an aggressive nationalist state shouldn't be accepted? If North Korea said their Christianity were their excuse would that suddenly condemn all Christians by association? >
  
  So the obvious question is, what does any of that have to do with the average Jew today, who's neither part of the Israeli government nor pushing for reparations? >
  
  Where to start… 
  First of all, it’s generally not a great idea to hate an entire ethnicity/religion, even if you don’t agree with the state that represents them. Eg I hate the Chinese government. Even if we assume that the majority of Chinese citizens support the actions of their government, that doesn’t make it ok to hate all Chinese people. 
  Secondly, Zionists did not /make/ diaspora Jews settle in Palestine/Israel. To the extent that anyone made them move there, it was the countries that expelled them. 
  Finally, do you know any Jews? Like on a personal level? >
  
  Well school is where i got most of the information i put in this post, and i may remember badly, but i am sure school told me that the zionist movement made diaspora jews go back to palestine. Idk >
  
  Can I ask what country you grew up in? Unfortunately, some countries teach flat-out lies about the Jews in their schools. >
  
  Grew up in italy, so i think we can rule out the possibility of lies. It’s just a me problem i think. >
  
  Would you say you dislike a Jewish person who lives and grew up in America who has no ties to Israel and never talks about the holocaust? I ask because I'd say a good amount of Jewish people who live in America would fit this description. >
  
  I would say that i’m generalizing then, which I HATE to do but that didn’t cross my mind when i was making this post. >
  
  Maybe wonder why that is, and who is pushing that image of who Jewish people are and why they might want to do that. >
  
  
  Most of israel’s history is being territory hungry and kicking arabs out of palestine, since the diaspora of jews and the zionist movement made jews settle in lands near palestine, all they did is try to get as much land as possible with money and founding jewish cities. When palestine tries to get their message that they don’t want jews in their territory (1948 - Arab israeli war, 1967 - six day war) israel annihilates any attempt of resistance.
  
  This is like saying you hate ~~Arabs~~ Persians or Muslims because of Iran. First of all, Israel does not represent all Jews. Secondly, good luck finding a religion that didn't commit some sort of colonialism and oppression. That doesn't make what Israel is doing okay, but if you're going to hate Jews for this then you're going to hate like 80-90 percent of ethnic groups.
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  I'm really fucking tired of people like you who make Israel synonymous with Jews. I blame people like Ted Cruz mostly for this because they've used that shit as an excuse to justify their alignment with white supremacists. "ooooh we're not antisemitic because we support giving missiles to Israel." You're not aligning with the people you think you are.
  
  A good number of us actually use that as a reason to fight against oppression and apartheid. Not sure what the reparations thing is about. If I ask for a pay raise and it's granted to me, and someone else asks for a pay raise and doesn't get it, why is that my fault? Blame the people who afford the reparations.
  I'm really fucking tired of people like you who make Israel synonymous with Jews. I blame people like Ted Cruz mostly for this because they've used that shit as an excuse to justify their alignment with white supremacists. "ooooh we're not antisemetic because we support giving missiles to Israel." You're not aligning with the people you think you are.
  We're not a monolith. This is extremely ignorant. >
  
  Although I am behind the point of your post, I feel it's important to clarify that Iranians in general are not Arab, they're Persian, a completely different ethnicity. Like their language is in the same family (Indo-European) as English and most other European languages along with most Northern Indian languages, as compared to Arabic and Hebrew's Semitic language family >
  
  Yeah fair enough. You're right. >
  
  
  They keep flaunting and using the holocaust 
  
  Flaunting. 
  You said people flaunt historical genocide. 
  What, exactly, would change your view?