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[–] [email protected] 67 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

what horseshoe theory does to a mf

[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago

There's a heart warming lack of libs both sideing in these comments, at least so far, though. So that's nice

[–] [email protected] 27 points 20 hours ago

Filed under four-panel memes I was actually hoping would be loss

[–] [email protected] 41 points 22 hours ago

So communism and nazism gave birth to Palestine? Wtf!? I'm having a really big mental block…

[–] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago

I saw this post right before I saw an article about Israel dropping a bomb on a school in Palestine

[–] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, because the eastern front never happened

[–] [email protected] 33 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

First they came for the Communists.

And they made lots of love and had a baby called Palestine the end.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

First they came. (For the communists)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

TBF, communists are really hot and good in bed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

If you replace the hammer and sickle for an American flag it makes sense .. if you replace the Palestinian flag for a star of David, it makes a lot of sense.

And to clarify, it doesn't mean I am antisemitic .... it means I am anti-zionist

[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It’s best not to bring up the star of David at all, except in condemning the state of Israel for co-opting it for the purposes of Zionist propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's a controversial subject but it is one we should all have on a regular basis seeing as the debate is actually costing the lives of thousands of people ..... but I wanted to ask ....

Besides the star of David, how would you symbolize the zionist movement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

As far as I know, there are no commonly recognized symbols for Zionism aside from the star of David, and this does a great disservice to non-Zionist Jews and anti-Zionist Jews, to the point putting them in danger, because it conflates Judaism and Zionism. You might use the Israeli flag, but again this is fraught because of its insidious co-optation of the star of David.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

And they have a British nanny and French maid.

Fucking Sikes-Picot

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

But why two panels of fucking? That just feels a bit thirsty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

If you prefer we could make it one wide panel

[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago

It's an interesting choice to put the communist on top.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

The relationship between actual 1930s nazis and the arab world was kind of complex for obvious geopolitical reasons, but Palestinians pretty much generally denounced nazis. Also back when it might've been good strategy not to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

12,000 Palestinians fought against the Nazis in WWII

Couple quotes from the article

One has to wonder why no organization was ever established to commemorate the actions of these Palestinian volunteers. “Many of them were killed and many others are still listed as missing. But no memorial has ever been established for them,” says Abbasi. In fact, the records of the Palestinian volunteers, along with much of their personal archives and papers, have disappeared, much of it lost in the War of Independence.

So who were the Palestinians who volunteered for the British Army to fight the Nazis? Abbasi says they mostly came from the Palestinian elite and that, contrary to what many think, represented “an important and central part of the Palestinian public.” A part of the public that believed it was necessary to stand by Britain at this time, and to temporarily put aside the Palestinian national aspirations – akin to the Jewish idea to “fight Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and fight the White Paper as if there were no Hitler.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

I wonder if there is anything deeper to nazism being shown as the mom here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I need this but in a civilised polandball style.