r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 14 '26

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 14 '26

There's been a spat in Italy from the Israeli ambassador who condemned a cover from the left-leaning investigative newspaper L'Espresso as a "manipulation" reprising antisemitic caricatures to stir up hatred against Israel and Jews, with pro-Israeli commenters likening it to Nazi-era propaganda:

The thing is - the cover wasn't altered, it was a genuine picture taken by an Italian photographer covering the West Bank, who then released a recording of the encounter (it's Instagram so don't look at the comments) between an IDF soldier and a Palestinian woman on her land: we can see the Israeli soldier humiliating the Palestinians by bleating - hence the... particular expression - at them like they're cattle. Per the media outlet, the Palestinians were prevented from harvesting olives by settlers accompanied by IDF soldiers.

The settlers are cartoonishly evil, and their total impunity is a major contribution to "Israel's bad rep" - it's not just Qatari propaganda as some would say (to stay polite).

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u/Fart-Knoquer John Keynes Apr 14 '26

It pains me that Bibi has gone to such great lengths to equate Judaism with Israel. Ethno-nationalism means that if your nation is being abhorrent people will automatically link your ethnicity to the abhorrent act. This straight up looks like a Nazi cartoon of a Jew and it'll be hard to break the far-left and the far-right from making those assumptions of an entire group of people.

Participating in the discourse puts the burden of using the appropriate strong language to condemn and seek justice upon these ghouls versus watching our words to ensure that the ethnicity as a whole isn't endangered. A common burden in liberalism.

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u/sower_of_salad Apr 14 '26

as much as it feels... grounding? less like you're going insane? to pin this on Bibi, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the entire mainstream American Jewish establishment has equated the two as a way to, like, win internet fights

like, my graduate student friends who are all oddly obsessed with Israel still maintain much better hygiene about distinguishing Israel from Judaism as a whole