As an Australian, no we didn’t. We just had it put in context. Jews around the world are great people, the Israeli government and the hardline supporters are absolute monsters. I hope the Australian government tells them as much. Israel deserves no support and everything that may happen when it’s withdrawn.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    2 years ago

    It would be a victim complex if they actually believed their stance, but it’s really just a classic case of the abused becoming the abuser… or, more accurately, the genocided becoming the genocider.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      92·
      2 years ago

      No one that was in the Holocaust is in any kind of position of power in Israel, which makes it even more pathologically disturbing.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        They were for most of Israels history, and they taught the current gen both nationalism, and how to treat the “others”.