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NHS to curb political symbols on uniforms after antisemitism report
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It's shit like this that baffles me. How is it not a zionist occupied government when zionist jews are given more privileges than even white people? If they made those same statements about the IRA or other anti-colonial movements, or made a remark condemning the state of Britain, it wouldn't even be noteworthy. But because it's for the zionist entity, they lose their entire careers.
Can someone PLEASE give a material analysis that contradicts what my eyes and ears have been seeing and hearing my entire life? Even as a child, people would call me an antisemite the second I made any remark against "israel", even as a Palestinian who observed their oppression first-hand.
Even if we look at apartheid South Africa, the charade wasn't done there. White colonizers weren't petitioning governments and getting people fired for making statements against them.
These governments are occupied by Zionists it's just that most of them are Christian and it's not being done because "Jewish mind control" or whatever the reactionary right is claiming but a mixture of shared material interests, blackmail, and bribery and access to money as well as Israel being very friendly to capital accumulation and the staging ground and intelligence base in the Middle East to solidify US dollar dominance through control of the worlds oil supply.
The last part is probably the most important for affecting government policy. Controlling the Gulf oil and forcing/pressuring them to sell oil in USD creates a need for the world to buy USD to buy the oil it needs. Israel is the rabid attack dog that can be sicced on the Gulf states at will if they refuse to play along.
The American public also has different perceptions of Apartheid South Africa versus Israel. The movement against South Africa came in a post civil rights struggle for Black Americans so they immediately were able to make distinctions between oppressed and oppressor by sight. (Notice how the change in Public perception towards Palestinians shifted only after social media made this obvious)
On the other hand the Western public has a weird antisemitic attitude towards Jewish people that views them as special gifted people that are constantly oppressed. As well as (especially in a post 9/11 world) having incredibly Islamophobic views allowed the charade to go on.
The current crackdowns are a result of that public charade being completely smashed and Israel acting the same way it always does doubling down on state oppression.
Thank you friend.
Obviously "Jewish Mind Control" doesn't exist, and to be honest, while I do think Epstein was a Mossad agent blackmailing government officials and celebrities, I think it's stupid to believe that our politicians are giving their support just because of blackmail reasons.
However, I do think the old-America (post-WW1 & WW2) doesn't exist anymore. There are very few intelligent capitalists / white supremacists who are in public elected positions. We have so many failsons in positions of power who I struggle to believe are intelligent enough to understand why they should support "israel" from an imperialist perspective, they just do it for the love of the game.
That's what baffles me the most to be honest, they're starting to lose elections over their support and they'd rather sink with the ship than change their positions
On the blackmail portion I think it plays more of a carrot and stick role, as in you play along and we give you rewards or else we find and leak things on you. And most politicians just play along. It's definitely not the primary reason and more of just a minor role as a punishment.
Also yea I am baffled by how bad they are playing this, I'm leaning in the same direction with them just being incompetent failsons. The Iran war is direct evidence of this