• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    Because the Israeli government has very effectively weaponized the holocaust against critics, and politicians are very sensitive to that kind of thing.

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      The big thing that needs to come out of this fuckup is just a postmortem on how their lobbying worked so well, for such a long time. Western genocides were supposed to stay in the 20th century.

      The Holocaust is probably a major part of it. Evangelical mysticism fits in there somehow too.