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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (10 children)

"they're showing a country of mostly white people invading and brutalizing a defenseless country of brown people which is clearly about Israel-palestine"

c/selfawarewolves

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I can all but guarantee that's an American writing that comment anyway.

    They look pretty much the same in terms of skin tone. It's not whites vs browns. They all just look Mediterranean, which isn't that surprising because that's where they are. Palestinians are a lot lighter than people seem to think.

    Unless we're going with the US definition of race, in which anybody coming from a poor country is non-white. I mean, they used to think the Italians and Irish weren't white.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    They look pretty much the same in terms of skin tone. It’s not whites vs browns. They all just look Mediterranean

    Who? Israel's dominant sociopolitical group are Ashkenazi. They're white. Pretending it's Mediterraneans vs Mediterraneans is playing into the Israeli lie that Jewish people are the true native people in Canaan and everyone else is an outside invader. When in reality some Jews are native to the area, just as the Palestinians are. But certainly not the 20th century neocolonial supremacist state of Israel.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    ... most Israeli Jews are Sephardim, Mizrahi, or mixed. For that matter, Ashkenazi Jews tend to vote for less genocide-happy parties in the Knesset. And on top of that, a significant portion of people in the Levant do not have a particularly different phenotype from Mediterranean Europeans.

    This is like when a bunch of people got up in arms over how 'white' the king of Jordan was. Like, fuck's sake, what the fuck is this neo-orientalism?

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