"It's just Netanyahu."

That's what they said about every single Israeli leader, including the ones who have signed peace treaties (like Netanyahu has).

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"I don't hate Jews, just Zionists."

15.7 million Jews in the world, 15 million are Zionists. You hate Jews.

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"Apartheid!"

Only exists in the Palestinian controlled territories, where Jews are not allowed to live or purchase property.

@Render they hate Jews. They love to sugar coated with excuses to display their hate but the truth is they hate Jews.

@Dbot This is a wild guess, but I think they don't *think* they hate Jews. I also think they don't *really* know what Zionism is when they say they hate that.
I don't believe the majority of folk who say such things would consider themselves hateful *at all*.
In other words, I think it's as much an education issue as anything else.

That does not make it right, or loving, or kind to use such rhetoric, but it perhaps explains how good people get sucked in by bad information. 😥
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@stueytheround @Render I disagree. There is people very well educated that should know better.
Perhaps they jump on the hate wagon because is an opportunity to display their dislike.
I hope you are right but... honestly...
I don't think u are

@Dbot And "lack of education" doesn't fit faculty at Ivy League schools who decry "settler colonialist racist Zionism", nor the students protesting at those schools. But certainly not the faculty. These are people with PhDs who have imbibed hatred of Israel, and by extension—whether they care to admit it or not—Jews, since they were in graduate school. @stueytheround @Render

@LiberalLibrarian With respect, I'm referring to people here on coso, who may or may not be college educated.
Now it might well be, that folk are getting their information from people who do/should know better. That's how propaganda *works* and boy does it work!
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@LiberalLibrarian @Dbot @Render
FWIW my formal education ended with highschool.