I don’t mean this in some sort of dipshit “I don’t see race!” way, but I must be totally pulled from the Hasbara propaganda machine at this point. When I hear, see, or think about Palestine at this point I just think “the asshole colonizer arm of the US” country and “the indigenous people they displaced and are genociding currently.” Like I’ve just totally slotted them in my brain, and not to say they’re exact equivalents because that’s reductive obviously, into white Europeans and their genocide of the Americas.

All of that to say when I’m reminded that Israelis and their propagandists attempt to falsely frame this around religion it’s always a bit jarring and takes a second for the rage to hit once I realize how moronic and frankly evil a lot of Zionists are. People like President Genocide Joe and his staff of little Himmlers. It’s the same exact propaganda and lies that echo through every mass extermination and attempt at or successful theft of land in history.

Unfortunately something I’ve come to realize recently is many Americans today think the genocide of the natives was justified or they just don’t care. Well, I didn’t just realize this; I was reminded of this truth is more correct. Maybe they acknowledge individual bad acts by Americans and Europeans (trail of tears) but they always default back to “both sides” and will never concede that one side had a righteous and correct resistance and the other side was just slaughtering people to steal their land and resources and it’s not more complicated than that. This “American exceptionalism” cope has pickled millions of brains the exact same way Zionism has to Israelis and Nazism to Germans, etc.