Could someone please fill me in on how this is related to ‘the western left’, as mentioned several times in the article?
Uh… the whole article is discussing how “the western left’s” sympathy for Palestine and criticism of Israel is being criticized?
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.