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In recent decades, the Israeli right cultivated close ties with the Republican party and conservative Christian groups in the US. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu believed that Christian Zionists would prove a more useful longterm ally to Israel than liberal-leaning Jewish Americans, and that allying with the right was worth the risk of alienating other segments of American support.

But “I don’t think that a lot of Jewish groups, especially Jewish allies of the right, have understood that Protestant Christianity is … highly fluid,” said Eliyahu Stern, a professor of religious studies at Yale and the author of a forthcoming book entitled Nowhere Left to Go: Jews and the Global Right 1977-10/7. Protestantism is a protean movement, he said, that is constantly changing with larger political and social forces.

As long as Trump is in power, however, Maga critics of Israel will probably remain on the margins of deciding actual US policy in Israel and the Middle East. Yet once Trump leaves office, the right’s internal divide about Israel might pose serious problems to the coherence of the conservative movement.

Get ready for a wave of antisemitism that breaks in a tidal wave from the buildup caused by the only acceptable criticism of Israel being along a crude antisemitic thrust in the halls of power in the US, the ferocity of the hate is going to be awful and shockingly disgusting.

Hey, the silver lining though is that at least we got to finally be violent without hiding it towards leftists under the guise of protecting jews right? I think the best, most american part was beating up jews who were protesting in the name of stopping a genocide while calling them antisemitic!

May God bless us and not our victims!!!

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Israel would love to see antisemitism increase in the US as it would entice Jewish people to move to Israel and reinforce their lies about being the only safe place for Jewish people.

It’s a “winning” strategy for them, as Dem or Rep governments will still materially support them regardless.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It also plays into both Israel's narrative that they

  1. Are representative of all Jews
  2. Any and all criticism of Israel or Zionism as a concept is antisemitic

But they say that bullshit even as more people than ever see through it. So they were gonna make both claims regardless forever.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

two concepts

  1. The literal state of Israel, a nation with laws, streets and schools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

  1. Judaism, a religion practiced in many places all over earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism