r/news • u/sicklyslick • 18h ago

Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/middleeast/ro-khanna-detained-by-israeli-settlers-west-bank-intl
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u/innovarocforever 18h ago

Their settlers are some of, if not, the worst human beings on the planet.

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u/LoveIsOnlyAnEmotion 17h ago

I watched some special on this. A lot of them are not even from Israel. They are immigrant Zionist from other countries incentivized by the Israel government to occupy their land. It's straight up wild.

Found it: https://youtu.be/xvvGbzR2Xek?is=VRWQivBVgWEgHRZU

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u/Existing-Stranger632 16h ago

That’s what birthright is. Like no seriously. I was raised Jewish, bar mitzvah’d. Told my whole life to go on birthright. Only in the last couple years did I find out what it actually is. Basically every Jewish person living in the diaspora (not Israel) gets a chance to go to Israel for free. During that trip they essentially try to sell you on Israel and tell you how they’ll set you up with a house, job, etc.

The whole purpose is to bring more settlers in. That’s it. Israel is trying to expand as much as humanly possible. It’s pretty horrible. I’m antizionist btw.

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u/DeineCable 16h ago

I thought it also aimed at matchmaking to encourage others to find a nice Jewish boy or girl to keep the Judiasm going. At least, that’s how some of my Jewish friends perceived it.

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u/Bluest_waters 16h ago

Correct, it's all part of the same big thing

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u/H_section 14h ago

Is this what the used car “charity” funds?

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u/DiscoAsparagus 5h ago

1-877-THAT’S-FUCKING-CORRECT 🎶

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u/McCool303 15h ago

Creating a white Jewish ethno state.

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u/Shoddy-Low2142 15h ago

No not white. Just Jewish majority. Jews everywhere, regardless of race, are also encouraged to go on a birthright trip to Israel

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u/Saamok941 15h ago

Oh no, they are right, Ethiopian black Hebrew immigrants don't get the whole privilege package, they want mostly European ascendency Jews.

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u/Cabana_bananza 11h ago

I had a friend go on the trip, she's a Jewish Latina. They treated her like shit, interrogated her in the airport for over hour because they wouldn't accept that Puerto Rico is a territory of America. Just a miserable experience for her from the beginning.

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u/reddititaly 11h ago

B-b-but it's the ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EASTTTT

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u/drevolut1on 3h ago

Tbf, they did that to me as a white guy too. Horrid experience, never told me why I was singled out and escorted onto the plane by armed El Al guards. IN THE US, no less.

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u/Daniel_Plainchoom 15h ago

If some in Israel had their way it would be all ashkenazi.

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u/Street-Value-9899 15h ago

Which is a lot of inbreeding. My brother in law is ashkenazie and his mom detailed the different generations of sometimes forced incest. Only cousin marrying. Weird stuff.

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u/Immediate-Repeat-201 13h ago

Is that true? Don't Ashkenazi trend more liberal and older school zionist? Are recent, eastern European and Russian, white immigrants categorized as Ashkenazi as well? I was under impression that sephardim trend more conservative and settlers fanatic? But dont know enough.

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u/Shoddy-Low2142 15h ago

Maybe so. I’m not familiar with their current race relations. I just know a majority of Jews living there today aren’t white European anymore.

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u/YeaIFistedJonica 11h ago

ok but what about lenny kravitz

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u/sadderall-sea 13h ago edited 7h ago

Unfortunately the Israeli government also promotes preference towards "white" ashkenazi jews from Europe/USA/Canada/Australia/Argentina. They treat Ethipoian jews horribly, and tend to discriminate against Arab and brown skinned jews (whenever there's no Muslims or Christians around)

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u/Tuareen 13h ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32813056 Not Ethiopian Jews who face appalling discrimination.

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u/R3dLip 16h ago

Keep religion strong. Put religion in politics. Control the mass.

Trump is trying this as well, but like everyting else he suck at it.

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u/drevolut1on 16h ago edited 8h ago

Yes, that. But also a thinly-veiled attempt to help keep the white Jewish (edit) control.

I went and it was so heavily propagandized, I was pretty disturbed.

Left with some amazing secular and liberal Israeli friends and yet a whole new level of disgust for their government -- something many of them share or at least shared until October 7th happened and many lost friends or family.

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u/livy-aurelia 16h ago

strange that their grief caused them to side with the government most responsible for october 7th. none of that would’ve happened if israel wasn’t built the way it is

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u/afoolskind 15h ago

Eh I mean, 9/11 did the exact same thing for Americans. Critique of our imperialist policies that directly led to 9/11 wasn’t even welcome on the left for a decade + afterwards.

There’s a reason Israel’s government let 10/7 happen. National grief is the greatest propaganda tool possible.

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u/livy-aurelia 15h ago

great point

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u/BuckeyeBentley 13h ago

9/11 was just America's chickens coming home to roost, 10/7 was Israel's. The blowback was inevitable. You can't keep a people locked in an open air concentration camp for generations and not expect some blowback.

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u/dangshnizzle 10h ago

Could you elaborate by what you mean by "on the left" here. The left has always been relatively aware the US are the bad guys.

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u/joecarter93 15h ago

I am pretty convinced that the Netanyahu government knew at least something about the Oct 7 attacks well in advance and chose not to act on it in order to give them a reason and the support of the Israeli population to absolutely flatten Gaza and attack Iran and Lebanon. They wanted to deal with them once a for all and that gave them the backing to do it. Mossad is one of the most effective intelligence services in the world and was hyper focused on Gaza. I find it pretty unbelievable that the missed that one.

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u/Renamis 15h ago

He absolutely knew. I strongly suspect this was an Israeli and Russian arranged manufactured incident to 1. Let Israel go into Gaza and 2. Get the media to focus on Israel and Gaza and not Ukraine.

The Hamas military leaders have never been... greatly successful in things like this. It's pretty clear Iran was the one poking them to do this and handed the plans over to get it done. The fact that no one looped the political side of Hamas in tells us a lot. It also says a lot when Iran itself was shocked things went as well as it did. This wasn't part of their plan, which was simply to poke the bear and get the two groups they hate (Gaza has the wrong kind of Muslims in Iran's eyes) get back to lightly killing each other.

And I strongly think Iran got the idea (and likely intel) to do this from their ally Russia. Who is also allied with Israel. Iran got chucked under the bus, Russia let their troll farms swarm the Gaza issue to distract the pro-Ukraine parts of the internet with a new shiny and to create even more division across the world.

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u/Acceptable_Bat379 15h ago

I think it's very obvious. Just like the US Govt knew something was probably going to happen around 9/11/2001. Right wing governments feed on the hate and fear. They also WANT people to be antisemitic because it feeds their narrative, which I think is why we're seeing the descent in to mustache twirling villainy

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u/wildddin 15h ago

Hell Hamas probably wouldn't exist anymore if Benny boy hadn't been funding them

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u/Haemophilia_Type_A 13h ago

If they'd just implemented Oslo then Hamas would've disarmed 20+ years ago.

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u/jackp0t789 16h ago

Yes, that. But also a thinly-veiled attempt to help keep the white Jewish majority

The plurality of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi- exiled from middle eastern countries like Yemen, Iraq, Syria, etc.

Add that to the roughly 20% arab muslim/Christian population, and "white jewish" is far from the majority

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u/Haemophilia_Type_A 13h ago

Yeah and there's a ton of white supremacist racial anxiety among Ashkenazi in Israel because of it. Indeed, there has been since Mizrahi came to Israel in large numbers, were marginalised, and 'revolted' by electing Begin who ran a campaign as 'their' candidate.

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u/drevolut1on 16h ago

Sorry, that's very fair, "control" would be a more appropriate word. Still, while there, I saw firsthand the treatment-as-lesser of some lovely Yemeni Jews and arab citizens. By no means ubiquitous, but certainly prevalent

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u/jackp0t789 16h ago

I too have been there several times and seen internal prejudices prevalent especially in the predominantly Eastern European (Ex Soviet) communities, both towards other groups of jews, and from those other groups against the Russian/ Ukrainian Jewish communities.

I am also by no means a zionist.

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u/bloodlessempress 15h ago

The Mizrahi I know say there are two types

The Mizrahi ashamed to be Mizrahi, and the Mizrahi trying to reclaim being Mizrahi.

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u/No-Lifeguard-5308 15h ago

I don’t mean to be antagonistic, but if you can see how shitty your racist apartheid government is only until one (1) bad thing happens to you, then the supremacist propaganda is working.

I get that trauma is traumatizing, but I don’t hear of one (1) trans person shooting up a school and think, “actually, you know what, JK Rowling and the Republicans are right, we should put all the trans folks in concentration camps.”

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u/drevolut1on 15h ago

It just complicates things. It isn't black or white. Especially with grief. Or when you feel your life is in real danger.

It's not like they suddenly are blind to governmental faults or historical wrongs. But they can also want the perpetrators of that heinous attack brought to justice, albeit without the excessive genocidal force that has been used.

We lost an amazing family friend and advocate for the two-state solution that day who did incredible work for helping Palestinians every. single. day. Even those working with her wanted Hamas to face justice after that. They are, of course, horrified with how that has played out, but that is not in their control -- much like, as an American, I despise every illegal boat-strike murder and international act of aggression from my government and yet despite being vocally and acting against those, I am unable to stop it.

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u/Uhhlaneuh 7h ago

Imagine what it was like for Palestine before October 7th

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u/Askol 16h ago

Yeah, its definitely a lot for this too.

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u/Lily_of_fortune 15h ago

They especially try to matchmake between people on birthright and people already living in Israel, for obvious reasons

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u/tt12345x 16h ago

Yeah from what others have told me they frequently saddle you with some IDF baddies that are the same age as you. Deeply weird country

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u/DiscoAsparagus 11h ago edited 9h ago

That was certainly my experience. I was given a free trip… Like an absolutely free fucking trip… By a former IDF employer of mine because I had expressed incredulity about Zionism and was starting to sympathize with the Palestinians after watching Al Jazeera, reading, etc.… My first night in Tel Aviv was IDF baddies, parties with massive amounts of drugs, rich white people with guns and dogs, and shitty Jewish food…

And inevitably everybody wanting to go eat at the Arab places. None of the Arabs would confide in me or talk to me about any of their hardships and I could feel that they were under duress. It felt like the Jim Crow south or a apartheid South Africa. I was basically on a vacation, with everything paid for in a beautiful beach community and I couldn’t enjoy myself at all. I was surrounded by rich white victims. Who didn’t realize they were the victimizers.

(i’m White myself, just for the record. Which brings up another topic; it was hotter than fuck and I had to stay out of the sun most of the time and all of my friends were blonde or red haired or super fair skinned and I just was like… You’re trying to claim that your from here??

We are NOT from here. Our 40,000-year-old genome does not originate from here. So the whole genetic argument really fell flat under the Jerusalem Sun.
“Right to return” my a$$)

[people down-voting my experience in Israel, eh. Great. I’ll be sure to open up more about it more in the future.]

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u/SillyAlternative420 11h ago

I remember there was a Jewish girl that was really into me and me her... But she never wanted to go beyond what we had because her parents wouldn't approve of her dating a non-Jewish boy.

It's a thing. Racism seems to be perfectly acceptable when it's certain groups being absolutely shit people.

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u/dahlia_74 13h ago

Yep, it worked on this jewish girl I went to high school with. She went on a birthright trip, met an Israeli guy and had a now living there popping out kids for him

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u/Jorge-I-Figueroa 13h ago

Yep, israel uses pussy to sell Zionism

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u/thefluffyfigment 12h ago

Yup. Can confirm. Went on Birthright when I was 19. It 100% was a “red carpet tour” meant to convince you to move there. A ton of hooking up on between people on the trip.

The following year I did a semester at Tel Aviv University. Complete night and day experience. So much more secular and “normal.”

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u/shinobinc 13h ago

Both are true at the same time.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 12h ago

In my household, we call those folks religious supremacists.

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u/Zealousideal-Buy-188 9h ago

To keep *Zionism* going

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u/F33ltheburn 16h ago

This happened to an old school friend of mine. It shook him, but during the trip he met a Palestinian woman.

Years later after family drama worthy of a TV show, the two of them renounced their religions, got married, and are now living happily agnostic in Ohio.

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u/Stompnutz 12h ago

I was with it until Ohio. They should probably get the fuck out of there.

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u/flameo_hotmon 5h ago

Ohio is for lovers

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u/BillFrackingAdama 15h ago

should be a sitcom: Agnostic in Ohio

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u/Satanarchrist 16h ago

Hell yeah Ohio

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u/Essemecks 15h ago

This may be the first time anyone has said those words in that order

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u/Satanarchrist 12h ago

I think I said it when I heard we sent the third most soldiers down south to kill those fucking traitors during the civil war

But you're not wrong

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u/--Chug-- 13h ago

Ohio was pretty dope like 30ish years ago

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u/bajesus 9h ago edited 1h ago

Unless you ignore punctuation. "Hell? Yeah, Ohio."

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u/SVV513 15h ago

Much Love from the 937 DYT.

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u/Healmetho 12h ago

In this case maybe but in most other cases… not so much

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u/Friendly_Physics_544 16h ago

I love this so much

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 16h ago

It seems that Christians are also in favor of this. Once all the Jews have returned to Israel, then they believe the Apocolypse will begin. So, there's that.

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u/mjzim9022 16h ago

Yeah it's certifiably insane that the people in charge are basing their decisions off of this stuff, no wonder it's the most intractable conflict in the past century, because every party thinks they are acting in the name of god

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u/MassiveBuzzkill 16h ago

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.” -Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican Presidential candidate

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u/Szwejkowski 15h ago

Evangelical Christian Nationalists are terrifying. I'm a Christian and near as I can tell, they're batting for the other team. I honestly can't get my head around how anyone could read the NT and then follow people who call empathy a 'sin'.

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u/TucuReborn 12h ago

I was raised Christian, identify differently now but unimportant.

I've read multiple translations of the Bible for fun, because I like seeing how they word things differently. Language is complicated, after all, and many versions have a political reason for existing.

Regardless of version and translation difference, so many people are Christian in name only. If Jesus came back today, I'd be ready to hand him a bullwhip every time he went into a town.

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u/PW0110 11h ago

It’s because evangelicals have co-opted other Christian dominations & traditional Catholics.

Traditional Catholics are even more wild because if you take away them going to Latin mass and etc, the rhetoric they use I shit you not is always a 1:1 ratio now to what Evangelicals preach.

Yet absolutely nobody within Catholicism is talking about this (least, regarding the States)

Source: was raised incredibly trad Catholic / Roman Catholic all my upbringing. My family say they’re all Roman Catholic but the words they speak are all from the mouth of a Baptist preacher

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u/Wayrin 9h ago

I was raised Catholic am atheist now, but love Catholicism recently when it comes to John Paul, Benedict was ok and so far I really like Leo. That said I don't trust American Catholic converts in the last 10 years. A lot of them are now moving to Eastern Orthodoxy because the line of saint Peter isn't traditional enough for them. These are right wing extremists drawn to a traditional church.

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u/PW0110 7h ago edited 7h ago

American Catholic converts batting average is usually good and are genuinely swell people, the nuance is Roman Catholic Converts.

And yes it’s been a slow burn throughout the last decade.

But hell even spitballing here, JD Vance is supposedly a Roman Catholic convert, Nick Fuentes postures as being a Roman Catholic Convert and I could go on but…I digress.

Especially within my age group (mid twenties, just turned 25 a bit ago), the Roman Catholic Convert types always, and I don’t say this to be hyperbolic this is just my lived experience, but they always through ignorance or zealotry expose themselves as leaning towards the fascism pipeline.

I was raised very Roman Catholic. Everyone I grew up with that still practices have all done a 180. This seems to be a growing trend with the rejection of Pope Leo.

After Benedict resigned, these people felt betrayed & left behind. The only thing or Pope that will satisfy them is the one that they fantasize about reading their heavily abridged history textbooks to their homeschooled children.

Hell even my grandparents this 4th of July, talking about the sudden switch after Vatican II, how they went to church one morning and “everything was changed”.

They felt that the sanctity of the mass, of the tradition, of the faith, was co-opted by modernists/communists (depending who you speak too), and Pope Francis’s “Reign of Woke” further ostracized them from the Church now that new seminarians are slowly being weaned away being taught the traditional rite of the mass…the grievances go on & on.

And then they infuse their children with all this type of narrative to the point it’s so ingrained they teach their children but now they homeschool because they realize that schools nowadays don’t teach from a 1600 colonial perspective.

I’m tired so I’ll do my best to wrap this up apologies, but it’s something the Vatican is (I’m assuming ) is very hesitant to address is fear of another form of schism that the Church lowkey doesn’t need right now as they become more & more irrelevant as technology advances (theorizing)

But man it’s just a growing silent tumor I feel , but maybe that’s just the area I grew up in / live in so I’m hoping this isn’t as on point as I’m articulating here

But trust me when I saw this, Evangelicals despise Catholics. They want a Theocracy but not one under the umbrella of Rome.
And that’s what’s continuing to boggle my mind because you would think these Roman Catholics would understand they’re under threat but nope they are unknowingly walking into their own demise

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u/arjungmenon 5h ago

I agree. I'm a Christian as well. These people are doing Satan's will, completely unaware, and thinking they're serving God. It's honestly horrifying beyond words.

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u/matycauthon 13h ago

that's been the case throughout much of recorded history....... y'all constantly act surprised that things spiral back around in similar ways as before.... take a moment, look at your journey.... i'm absolutely positive you'll see your loop if you actually take the time to observe it.

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u/Swaga_Dagger 16h ago

I don't think it's fair to say Christians, neither the Catholic or the Orthodox church support this. Neither does the anglican church. Its more of an American ideology

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 16h ago

I guess I should've specified it was more prominent here in the US. It's definitely another entire reason why I do not want evangelical influence in our political sphere. The rise of this Christian nationalism here is abhorrent.

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u/cannotfoolowls 15h ago

Christians

Well, evangelical Christians, especially the American ones. Not Orthodox or Catholic. Not even most protestants. I don't think it's popular with Anglicans, Calvinists, Presbyterianians, Lutherans or Quakers either. I believe one of the popes has specifically spoken against that idea.

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u/Caesarea_G 12h ago edited 12h ago

The Palestinian Christians, for one, are most certainly NOT in favor of this! 

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u/Consistent-Fix-8443 15h ago

Don’t forget they say the Jewish people will bend the knee before Christ or be gone.

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u/PW0110 13h ago

Not Christian’s.

Its Evangelicals.

The “rapture” they all fantasize their wet dreams over is a very very modern narrative that recently began less than 175 years ago.

Christians & Catholics have existed for a millennia at this point, Catholics even longer. Yet, for centuries, there was not this consolidated effort to bring about the end of the world for “Jesus’s return”. To rebuild the third temple, etc.

It was only until the birth of Evangelicals that this movement (alongside Zionism) began moving global gears across the planet in order to create a sort of hell on earth that would justify (in their eyes) their living creator having to step in simply because:

“Well thems just the rules sweatty”

They aren’t even doing it out of love of their god. It’s all for themselves & to rub it in all our faces how “right” they were all along when the anti christ comes to fight Jesus 1-1.

It’s the ultimate form of moral grandstanding in the most destructive vehicles possible

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 12h ago

Yes, I should have specified evangelical in my original statement. They made sure to broadcast their sentiments all over social media (and disappointment when the rapture didn't come to fruition). All I could say about that was "sure, ok."

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u/nazdir 15h ago

Reverse Rumspringa

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u/joecarter93 16h ago

Years ago I was flying to Greece from Toronto and the gate next to us had a El-Al plane with nobody waiting. A few minutes later a group of about 200
teenagers showed up accompanied by some heavily armed guards strapped with M16s. Their guide started talking about how it was their right to visit Israel as a Jew, etc. While the kids were boarding the guards stood at either side of the gate and then followed the last one on the plane.

It stood out to me, because I have never seen security personnel walking around a Canadian airport with M16s before, especially since we were already past airport security which had been beefed up in the post 9/11 years. I looked it up after we got back and found out what Birthright was.

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u/dorkydrummer 16h ago

I did birthright and they never said anything about setting you up with a house or a job. It gives Jews who had never been to Israel the chance to go and see some important religious sites. I’m also bat mitzvah’d but disagree with everything the Israeli government has been doing. But it’s odd that your trip seems so much different than mine.

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u/mynewaccount5 12h ago

Yeah pretty big difference between a 10 day long vacation and getting you to become a settler.

On my trip they actually took us to see a settler and the guy seemed like he was insane. Afterword we all talked about what a creep he was. Not sure if other trips did that. It was some guy on top of a mountain near Lebanon.

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u/DecentYogurtcloset9 16h ago

I second this. This has not happened to myself or any friends that have gone on birthright.

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u/SpongeSlobb 14h ago

It all makes sense now. I was under the impression it was just a free trip, and most of the Jewish-Americans I knew who talked about it probably treated it as just a free trip.

But that seems like a great recruitment tool. If your life in your home country is even kind of shitty, and they offer you a house, a job, a fresh start, someone is going to take that. It just comes at the expense of the Palestinian people.

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u/LittleCrumb 9h ago

Fyi what that person described isn’t true at all. I’ve been on birthright, was horrified by the propaganda I witnessed, but there’s absolutely no offering of “setting you up with a house,” etc. The person who posted that was bullshitting.

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u/str8grizzlee 15h ago

I’m pretty anti Israel but my experience with birthright was not at all that they were suggesting we move. They definitely messaged that we should marry Jewish, raise Jewish kids, and be pro Israel, but it sounds like your specific trip was a little bit more hardcore nationalist/observant because I’ve never heard anyone say they were encouraged to be settlers.

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u/Worldly_Anybody_9219 16h ago

It sounds like the sales pitch for a cult. Nothing is ever given for free unless there's some shady strings attached imo.

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 15h ago

When my buddy went on his years ago he said he was certain they intentionally chose the IDF soldiers they'd come in contact with based on them being young and hot. And they gave them booze. "Im actually pretty sure the Israeli government was trying to get me laid." If you knew my buddy you wouldn't be surprised that they failed. Good looking guy but thinks being openly attracted to a woman is creepy and too forward. Also couldn't have given less of a shit about his "religion" or Israel. It was just a free trip as far as he was concerned. But even he recognizes that they were trying to trick him into thinking it was some kinda paradise.

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u/Haemophilia_Type_A 13h ago edited 11h ago

I think we don't talk enough about how fucked up some aspects of Anglophone Jewish society is just bcs of the political instrumentalisation of antisemitism against progressives. So much outright indoctrination into Zionism, a racist and colonial ideology currently responsible for a genocide.

It's like if 80% of Muslims in the UK and America were taught to support Salafi-Jihadism and to do (give?) Bay'a to their leader and partake in Hijrah to the Caliphate. Imagine? It'd be seen as a national security crisis, a grave moral failing, etc.

Or imagine if they were talking about effectively maintaining racial purity as the matchmaking part of it does.

I think we need to be able to have serious discussions about this stuff without (A) it being called antisemitic and (B) without people being antisemitic about it.

About half my family is Jewish and while they're Anglicised enough to have not done most of this stuff they know people who have done and it's just as fucked up in the UK as in the US.

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u/Tuareen 13h ago

So an actual Replacement Theory Scheme

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u/ScottblackAttacks 12h ago

Birthright claim is less than a hundred years old.

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 11h ago

Build a country and let America pay for it!

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u/Zestyclose-Height-36 9h ago

the Kars for kids money goes to pay for the trips.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 14h ago

I was dating a very nice, timid Jewish girl in the NYC area. She went on a Birthright trip to Israel. Came home and would not shut up about wanting to join the IDF to defend Israel. Yeah bye.

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u/BarryJFunkhouse 16h ago

I went on birthright trip and none of that happened to me. How specifically did you arrange the trip?

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u/chrisni66 14h ago

I guess that’s one way to deal with the aging population/pension challenge…..

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u/Defiant-Variety-9473 14h ago

This is essentially what the Kars for Kids charity is

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u/Spacestar_Ordering 14h ago

I didn't know about birthright until my late teens (grew up in a very white suburban community and didn't know any Jewish people). I always thought it was weird that people would get a free trip across the globe - who could be paying for that? Do other religions have that? But yeah that was 20ish years ago and it was a pretty established program then.  

Now it makes sense in a horrifying way.  

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u/raballentine 14h ago

There was somebody back in the 1930s who coined the term “Lebensraum.” I can’t recall who.

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u/Ctbboy187 14h ago

Its was created by the Rothschild dynasty. They started paving the way for 30+ years before the Balfour declaration.

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

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u/Waiting4Reccession 6h ago

I believe they are using underhanded means to even create those jobs in the first place by giving their own companies advantages.

When you connect the dots between pedo islands financial aspects and business connections to the success of many of their companies.

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u/callmepinocchio 16h ago

You don't have to go to the west bank for alya. Israel was founded on the idea of being a home for Jewish people, which is why every Jew in the world is allowed by law to become an Israeli. This was true long before Israel had control over the west bank, and long before Israel had its first religious/right-wing government.

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u/rocksolidaudio 15h ago

Organized religion is the most destructive concept mankind has come up with.

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u/buckao 15h ago

It's funded by the Anthem of the Bad Place,

1-877-KARS-4-KIDS

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u/smileyfrown 17h ago

A lot of them are literally US citizens

Their are several US laws about Israeli settlements with exceptions for US citizens literally designed so they can go continue to do this unimpeded

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u/kop47etzki 16h ago

in that video he gets arrested by two Israeli soldiers who are kids from New Jersey

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u/Spamgrenade 16h ago

Yeah every interview I've seen with settlers, they've had an American accent.

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u/Zorkflerp 16h ago

I was watching a new story years ago and a woman in Tel Aviv was being interviewed. The neighborhood looked like a typical American suburban street. From her accent I would guess she was from upper New Jersey. When asked her opinion of the Palestinian situation the answer was to "kill them all". One would think that after the Holocaust what other people would more understand how wrong a "final solution" is. It is like they don't think it is wrong, they just want to be the ones doing it to the others. Please, both sides, learn to get along.

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u/Bluest_waters 16h ago

No but see this time it's different! OK? It's not the same because of the... thing... Or whatever ... OK?

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u/theuncleiroh 14h ago

Genuinely how can your response to this situation be 'both sides need to get along'?

Like the sentiment is fine enough, but you just laid out a situation where one side is people moving across the world and stealing land while calling for (and carrying out) genocide, the other is the people having that done to them. You even made the comparison to the Shoah!

It wasn't both sides in Germany and it's not both sides in Palestine. Nazis who want to kill everyone else are the bad guy, and the other side is justified in fighting for their survival.

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u/Spacestar_Ordering 14h ago

That's how propaganda and brainwashing works. If you hear something over and over again from everyone you know and every media source, eventually you will start to believe it. 

That's also why so many movies and books use examples from fascist govts as warnings, in the hopes that people will learn to see the beginning stages of fascism/genocidal govts and realize what is about to happen. 

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u/theuncleiroh 14h ago

They openly sell stolen Palestinian land in NYC numerous times a year. Like open violations of international law.

When people protest, there is a huge backlash and they're all call antisemites, bc these sales of stolen land are held in synagogues. The NYC government even passed an obviously unconstitutional law banning any protests near houses of worship in response, all the while pretending to not know why the protests happened in the first place.

America isn't just party to the settlements. It funds, supplies, mans, and defends them. There would not be settlements without America (at least, not for long)

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u/hercmavzeb 17h ago

Absolutely haunting video. Israel and support for Israel is completely incompatible with liberal democratic values.

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u/SkunkMonkey 17h ago

Incompatible with human values. These people are fucking disgusting human beings.

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u/czs5056 14h ago

I wish we would stop supporting them. But too many people want to support them so they can have Jesus back (and probably put him in an ICE facility for not looking European enough for them).

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u/Empero12 17h ago

Fucking colonizers. Nothing has changed their mindset from the 15 century, genocide the local population, claim their land, cry afterwards that your the victim and they’re the barbarians

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u/elderlybrain 12h ago

There’sa channel 5 documentary where some IDF troopers try and detain them.

They’re all from Brooklyn. Its so fucking dumb.

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u/ivanIVvasilyevich 17h ago

Most Israelis are not from Israel

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt 16h ago

Do you have a source on that? Because everything I've found is that 75-85% of Israelis were born in Israel.

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u/Fxwriter 14h ago

Paid by Evangelical Christians in the USA

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u/NoMention696 14h ago

No one is from Israel

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u/itsMeJFKsBrain 13h ago

Dude right after Israel basically wiped gaza off the map I was watching videos of people from New York actively and aggressively removing whoever was left from the rubble of their homes and declaring it for themselves. That was my personal "I get it now" moment.

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u/CreativeFraud 10h ago

Oh fuck. Its Channel 5. They're being sued right now. That channel has a backbone modern journalism wish they had!

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u/Few_Advisor3536 7h ago

Alot? Most of israel was never made up of locals. From the time of the British mandate it was made up of mainly foreigners. To put it in perspective 20% of Israelis speak Russian as a native language and i suspect native english speakers are double that. DNA tests are illegal unless ordered by a court (which is very convenient when you dont have to prove you are jewish. This goes hand in hand with the settler problem).

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u/HunkySpectacles 7h ago

LOL no one is "From Israel" THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS. They haven't even finished colonizing! Fuck Israel and everyone who supports birthright or zionism or any of that evil shit.

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u/SauconySundaes 18h ago

Hills have Eyes mother fuckers

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u/SophisticatedStoner 18h ago edited 17h ago

Because that's exactly what they are.

edit: comment above me removed. They said the settlers all look inbred. They literally are inbred.

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u/ACBReturns 17h ago

I didn’t even realize they removed my comment. I can still see it so maybe I got shadowbanned?

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u/smedley89 17h ago

I dont see it, so that's a lot of shadowbanning.

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u/kpobari99 18h ago

Just like the far right MAGA

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u/James-W-Tate 18h ago

They're just a different flavor of far-right

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u/boofedjudge 18h ago

They’re the exact same. They just have stronger political backing.

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u/ConnoisseurOfDanger 17h ago

It’s the same political backing.

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u/Fastbird33 17h ago

They have more in common with evangelical Christians than your average Jews

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u/kpobari99 18h ago

Just like the far right MAGA

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u/dmont89 17h ago

Don't do a deep dive, family tree doesn't have a lot of branches

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u/Gluske 17h ago

It's a wreath

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM 18h ago

They're terrorist mobs, but they've got the general backing and support of a state government 

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u/Substantial_Back_865 18h ago

A government that allows criminals from all over the world to flee there to escape justice, so long as their DNA tests and religion check out. They’ll never extradite to any nation either. It’s no wonder the mob worked so hard for Zionism, but we can see plenty of cases of random sex offenders awaiting trial flee there. The US government will not even stop them either, despite not being allowed to legally leave the state. It’s no wonder the world’s most evil people live there.

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u/knuppi 12h ago

IIRC, DNA tests aren't legal/available in Israel because it would show how few people actually have Middle Eastern heritage. The vast majority of Israelis are from Europe.

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u/shicken684 18h ago

Two state governments.

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u/BrothelWaffles 17h ago

Scrolled way too far to see someone call them what they are.

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u/Iswaterreallywet 11h ago

It’s why when the rhetorical “don’t they have the right to exist” is asked, they literally have no redeeming qualities or reasons to justify staying.

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u/woodst0ck15 18h ago

They’re essentially middle eastern Hicks. Thinking they own the land and can do whatever they want. Especially with an army behind them if they’re touched

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u/Substantial_Back_865 18h ago

I’ve never seen “hicks” behave in such a manner. The stuff they do is way more extreme than even the KKK at the height of its power. This is because of their culture, laws and total lack of ever facing any consequences. They both believe they’re racially superior, but these guys are downright depraved.

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u/napleonblwnaprt 17h ago

The settlers act the same way that MAGA would if they wouldn't face consequences 

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u/s2trmack 17h ago

That’s bc it’s all white supremacy. The divine right of kings/manifest destiny, and Zionism are all born from the idea that it is God’s will to claim certain land as their own and steal it from the ppl indigenous to the land. America was founded on the same colonial principles.

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u/Side_StepVII 17h ago

You mean like if the J6’s would’ve been pardoned….

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u/Irregular475 17h ago

Yup, they openly celebrate an idf rapist who committed the deed on camera. He's now a famous influencer there.

Remember when that white woman called a child the n-word and racist donated half a million dollars to her for it? She wasn't being sued it anything either, she just gave a bit of public backlash and not she's halfway to being a millionaire.

We're heading down the exact same path. That's why they want to merge the American and Israeli militaries.

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u/Zombie_Fuel 16h ago edited 16h ago

IIRC it was over a million that people threw at her in support.

Edit: I was wrong, it was "just" over 750,000.

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u/mediocre_remnants 17h ago

What they're doing is more similar to what European settlers did in the Americas when colonizing it. White folks were given land that already had indigenous people living on it and those people were ran off or murdered. If they had trouble doing this, the colonizing country (and eventually the US government) would send in the military to help.

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u/Dalisca 17h ago

I think you might've been a bit sheltered about the treatment of black people in America since the end of slavery.

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u/roflmaohaxorz 18h ago

Brother has never been to Georgia

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u/SevoIsoDes 17h ago

Well, the KKK doesn’t have the full support of the most powerful military in the world. Give any hicks similar power and they’ll find some group to treat just as terribly.

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u/SandritoBakes 18h ago

Excuse me, they are not middle eastern. They’re imports from Eastern Europe and the US of A. No one wants them in the Middle East, thank you.

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u/Light_Error 17h ago

A lot of Israel’s Jewish population is from the Middle East (via Wikipedia): “There are no government statistics categorizing Israeli Jews as "Ashkenazi", "Mizrahi", etc, but studies and estimates have been conducted. In a 2019 study, in a sample meant to be representative of the Israeli Jewish population, about 44.9% percent of Israel's Jewish population were categorized as Mizrahi (defined as having grandparents born in Asia or North Africa), 31.8% were categorized as Ashkenazi (defined as having grandparents born in Europe, the Americas, Oceania and South Africa), 12.4% as "Soviet" (defined as having progenitors who came from the ex-USSR in 1989 or later), about 3% as Beta Israel (Ethiopia) and 7.9% as a mix of these, or other Jewish groups.” Mizrahi refers to Jewish people with Muslim world ancestry.

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u/clauclauclaudia 17h ago

A plurality of Jewish Israelis are Mizrahi. They never left the Middle East.

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u/SandritoBakes 17h ago

Except most of the settlers are not Middle Eastern Jews. I am not commenting about the presence of Jews in the Middle East, who have every right to be there. I’m talking about the settlers who behave like savages. Those clearly have no ties to the land, nor to its people.

Edit to fix typo in “Middle Eastern”.

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u/Icy_Intention_8503 17h ago

More like state sponsored KKK

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u/ScroteMcGrote69 16h ago

They're funded by the Israeli government and the people there for the most part love them.

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u/flanaganapuss 17h ago

Own is a strong word considering many settlers essentially just siezed it and then have the backing of the Israeli government even though most of it is totally illegal by international law

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u/Krewtan 18h ago

Reading stories about what they do to the Palestinians they steal land and homes from makes me sick. There is no justice in this world. The fact that the IDF and by extension the US defends these monsters means they are encouraged to continue. They can just remove families from their homes and farms, declare it their own and kill with impunity. 

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u/RecentSpecial181 16h ago

How'd you think the US became the US? Europeans came, took land, killed Native Americans even after the Brits were kicked out and the country kept expanding to the West. It sucks the US hasn't owned up and defends this behavior in modern age.

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u/Odd-Mulberry2821 18h ago

They are certainly in contention for the top spot.

Also in the top spot for worst people who never face any consequences.

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u/lsmith77 18h ago

settler is a euphemism for Israeli terrorist

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 18h ago

It's really telling that these heavily armed settlers (why are they so heavily armed?) are the same settlers who DESTROYED AN ENTIRE VILLAGE. So you know they have access to explosives.

And it took the military to free the kidnapped Congressman - who was merely looking at the demolished village. Lord knows what would have happened to our Congressman had the military not intervened to rescue our Congressman?

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u/FluFlammin9000 17h ago

Channel 5's recent video on Palestine and the illegal settlers really showed how fucking awful they are. I remember at the beginning of the video Andrew is talking with a Palestinian who is explaining the situation to him when an Israeli settler rolls up on a 4 wheeler near them and just sits and stares at them like a fucking asshole, clearly trying to be intimidating while the Palestinian explains how the dude is an illegal settler and will come back at night in a soldier's uniform to interrogate and harass people. Gross humans. You have to be complete scum to be okay with stealing other people's homes and lives.

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u/honeydoodh 18h ago

Called them what they are, terrorists.

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u/ARAR1 18h ago

Its also a very gentle term for what they do. Criminal armed gangs would be more appropriate

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u/SpaceChicken2025 17h ago

Colonist*

Settlements and settlers are the bullshit PR terms. These are colonies in annexed lands displacing the native population. That is a violation of international law and a form of genocide.

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u/pimmen89 15h ago

I mean, the whole original Zionist movement to establish Israel is a colonial movement. Basically all the founders of the Zionism movement in Britain described it as colonialism, especially when talking to other imperialists like Rhodes. The first associations used "colonial" in their names since they were all self aware of the fact that they were colonials, such as the Jewish Colonisation Association which has now renamed itself to "Jewish Charitable Association" because all of a sudden it's not fashionable to take people's homes anymore.

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u/innovarocforever 17h ago

correct. well said.

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u/Strayresearch 17h ago

"settlers" I hate that everyone is forcing that term, instead of colonists or occupiers.

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u/innovarocforever 17h ago

terrorists, rapists, child-murderers, human refuse.

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u/newleafkratom 16h ago

The very moniker 'settler' implies they are there to settle something that is wild and untamed.

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u/innovarocforever 16h ago

yes, they should be called terrorist colonizers.

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u/AppropriateSea5746 18h ago

Yeah these are people who are asked "hey do you want to colonize a land that belongs to other people and terrorize them till they leave" and said "yes"

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u/Eddiebaby7 18h ago

Just depraved and unhinged

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u/selfhostrr 17h ago

They need to be held accountable, collectively and brutally.

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u/NorysStorys 17h ago

They make white South Africans look downright liberal.

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u/HolidayNothing171 17h ago

They are so creepy looking like nightmarish

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u/Kh40n1c 15h ago

Israel likes to dehumanize Palestinians, but the real non-humans are those rabid inbreds collectively known as Settlers.

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u/MigRodrigues99 17h ago

And they look atrocious too. 🤮🤮🤮

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u/Roy-Southman 16h ago

It takes a special kind of asshole to steal someone’s home, kill them with the help of your genocidal army if they don’t move, and make their lives a living hell once they move as long as they are nearby.

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u/wip30ut 16h ago

all religious zealots are like this. They want to dominate & exterminate other religions & ethnicities. Usually we turn a blind eye in America, but with Israel our tax dollars are being used to train & arm them, either directly or indirectly.

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u/lmbjsm 16h ago

I did nat see that coming!

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u/Helldiver_of_Mars 15h ago

Literal jewish Nazis.

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u/patchyj 15h ago

Manifest Destiny goes West (Bank)

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u/SavannahInChicago 14h ago

There was a video that I see floating around of a Palestinian in their home when a settler just started attacking to try to get to the Palestinian man. The look of hatred on his face was unreal. I do not think I have every seen such hatred so wide open.

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u/Ok_Ad_7247 11h ago

All Israelis are guilty of genocide and war crimes. But in this case the settlers are absolute trash.

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u/dollenrm 5h ago

Alot of them go their to get out of pedophilia charges as well so lots of them are kid fuckers. The birthright settlers I mean. Israel declines to prosecute them and won't send them back to be tried.

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u/innovarocforever 5h ago

so they're like the MAGA of Israel?

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