Yes. This is an open secret. All Arabs know this...but few will admit it publicly. I have a Palestinian friend who fled from discrimination in Jordan to Israel where she found sanctuary. My family in Egypt told me not to say I was half-Palestinian or ppl would treat me badly.https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1151898584226205696 …
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...underlies the feeling of antisemitism that many Jews feel from movements which are more about anti-Zionisim than securing Palestinian rights...
Absolutely. The takeaway here is that they do not care about the Palestine/Israel issue because they love Palestinians..but because they hate Israelis. And yes, the Jews/Zionists is a smokescreen. The caveat is that they don’t hate the Jews who also want the destruction of Israel
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People sometimes don't even realise this prejudice in themselves. If you're raised to believe that Israel is the source of all problems in the region (or as Tim Marshall says, a lie told by Arab dictators to deflect from their own abuses) and everyone around you believes this...
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...then it's hard to break out of. I follow exMuslims on here to whom this was a revelation. As for people single minded obsession, who only will hear one side of the story ...I think that stems from hate or serious ignorance or hate makes people unwilling to find out.
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