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The individual in question doesn't support Palestine, OP added that 'I have a black friend'-level of nonsense to draw on sympathy.
You're just mad he's against authoritarianism, marxist.
...You believe zionists, the current worst genocidal force on the planet, who have killed over their 80 years far more people than the nazi regime ever did... are not authoritarian?
As terroristic and genocidal Israel is, they did not kill as much as the original nazi
Palestine: Average of 10k/year for a hundred years, with at least 500k over the last 2.5 years...
Lebanon: average 5k/year for 60 years
Egypt: average 1k/year for 20 years
Iran: average 1k/year for 50 years
Syria: average 5k/year for 20 years. (incl. kurdish arming (as proven by Trump's accidental exposure of zionists arming kurds in Iran so it's not a conspiracy anymore)
Iraq: 500k-1million over 30 years
Afghanistan: 1.5mil-2mil over 40 years.
Rhodesia: 250k-1 million depending on the reporting body
South Africa: at least 1 million.
Again I said zionism. Israel is one of the bases of zionism. It's not even the main base of zionism. There are more zionists in New York than there are in Israel. And this is just the uncontroversial publicly admitted numbers.
Realistically we can double all of these numbers if we believe their victims, triple if we go with the most extreme estimates and include every single action from every single zionist (british empire kills since wwi as an example)
You are whitewashing the united snakes by associating the murder of Iraqis and afghsns to zionism . The usa empire evilness predate israel and zionism.
Also cite the sources for each figure
Literally illiterate.