Very unserious to pretend Judaism is the only “religion of violent conquest” in the world. How did Spain become Islamic? And what about the whole Crusades? Both Christianity and Islam have a lot of blood on their hands, historically. Just because Judaism is the religion being used the most prominently to rhetorically defend today’s atrocities does not mean you have to “hand it to” the Crusaders.
Also, Netanyahu isn’t even fucking religious. Israel isn’t doing what it’s doing because its leaders are true believers in a fundamentalist interpretation of the Torah. The people running Israel are secular, their material base is imperialist capitalism, and their internal justification for dehumanizing Palestinians is based on racism just as much as it is based on religious secrarianism. BE is often both factually incorrect and strategically self-sabotaging.
Very unserious to pretend Judaism is the only “religion of violent conquest” in the world. How did Spain become Islamic? And what about the whole Crusades? Both Christianity and Islam have a lot of blood on their hands, historically. Just because Judaism is the religion being used the most prominently to rhetorically defend today’s atrocities does not mean you have to “hand it to” the Crusaders.
Also, Netanyahu isn’t even fucking religious. Israel isn’t doing what it’s doing because its leaders are true believers in a fundamentalist interpretation of the Torah. The people running Israel are secular, their material base is imperialist capitalism, and their internal justification for dehumanizing Palestinians is based on racism just as much as it is based on religious secrarianism. BE is often both factually incorrect and strategically self-sabotaging.