As the war in Gaza continues, cheerleading of civilian slaughter and justification of war crimes are pervasive. But they’re not coming from the Left — they’re coming from politicians and commentators defending Israel’s vicious bombing campaign and blockade.
I read it and it confused me. Is this a US thing? I really feel out of the loop here.
I mean in Germany the far right seems to support the Palestinians, but that doesn’t apply to the whole right.
Yeah, it’s a US thing. For some reason (mostly lobbying), the US has undying support for Israel and criticism of the state gets conflated with antisemitism.
The US has been very anti-arab for decades.
They’re also very anti-Semitic, but “white people oppress brown people” is sort of the US right-wing’s mission statement, so they side with Israel on this.