Zionists promote Islamophobia because convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel.
Support for Israel is a hard sell. On paper it's just a shitty, evil country full of shitty, evil people, and has no redeeming qualities as a state. Nobody can explain how it's an important ally in a way that makes sense; all the problems they claim it helps solve are problems Israel itself creates with the help of western backing. Unless you're a devout Jewish Zionist or Christian Zionist there's nothing about the modern state of Israel you'd naturally be inclined to support.
Appealing to western racism, however, is much easier. We've got entire mainstream political factions whose whole platform is just grimacing in disgust at anyone who looks and acts a bit different. White supremacism runs deep, and westerners have been fighting and killing Muslims for many centuries, so there's plenty of cultural memory to draw on for this specific form of hatred.
So they don't worry so much about explaining the positives about the state of Israel, focusing instead on fearmongering about the religion whose adherents tend to wind up on the receiving end of Israeli military violence. They can't convince us that Israel is good in and of itself, but they can convince many of us that it's good to drop military explosives on Muslims.
Most of the Islamophobia you see in the west comes from Israel supporters and people who've been propagandized by Israel supporters. A small minority comes from extreme fringe rightists who hate both Muslims and Jews, but the majority is the product of western support for Israel and the west's warmongering in the middle east which Israel consistently plays a role in.
That's why you'll see high-profile Israeli social media accounts fearmongering about the growing Muslim populations in Europe, for example. You wouldn't think it would be any of Israel's concern if there are a lot of Muslims in Belgium or whatever, but it is in Israel's political interests to keep westerners fearful and disdainful toward members of the Islamic faith.
We're seeing more and more of this as Israel increasingly alienates western centrists and progressives, relying more and more heavily on support from the western right. As the narrative that a poor persecuted religious minority needs to have its own homeland loses traction with its intended audience, we're seeing it increasingly replaced with the narrative that them there Muslims need killin', yeehaw.
Israel makes everything gross. It makes the world more violent, more sociopathic, and more hateful. The entire state is sustained by nonstop violence and hatred. It's a malignant tumor on the flesh of our species.
@TulsiGabbard Yeah? Then you turned around and became today's Colin Powell, lying our way into war with Iran? You're a disgrace. And I'm guessing you're aware of it. Liar. War criminal. 2016 you would be ashamed.
@realDonaldTrump Does... Cuckoldry?
Because that's all I see. A weak old man blackmailed by Israel to do their dirty work. Even Harris wasn't this pathetic.
You are a disgrace.
Refresher On The Rules For Discussing Israeli Wars
Okay it’s been a few months since the last war Israel started, so now that Iran’s on the chopping block let’s go over the rules once again.
Rule 1: Israel is never the aggressor. If Israel attacks someone it’s either a response to an aggression that happened in the past, or a preemptive attack to thwart an imminent aggression in the future.
Rule 2: History automatically restarts at the date of the last act of aggression against Israel. If someone attacks Israel it was completely unprovoked, because nothing happened before the attack on Israel.
Rule 3: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 2. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or China.
Rule 4: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does.
Rule 5: Israel never bombs civilians, it bombs Bad Guys. If shocking numbers of civilians die it’s because they were actually Bad Guys, or because Bad Guys killed them, or because a Bad Guy stood too close to them. If none of those reasons apply then it’s for some other mysterious reason we are still waiting for the IDF to investigate.
Rule 6: Criticizing anything Israel does means you hate Jewish people. There is no other possible reason for anyone to oppose acts of mass military slaughter besides a seething, obsessive hatred for a small Abrahamic faith.
Rule 7: Nothing Israel does is ever as bad as the hateful criticisms described in Rule 6. Criticisms of Israel’s actions are always worse than Israel’s actions themselves, because those critics hate Jews and wish to commit another Holocaust. Preventing this must consume 100 percent of our political energy and attention.
Rule 8: Israelis are only ever the victims and never the victimizers. If Israelis kill Iranians, it’s because the Iranians hate Jews. If Iranians kill Israelis, it’s because the Iranians hate Jews. Israel is an innocent little lamb that just wants to mind its own business in peace.
Rule 9: The fact that Israel is literally always in a state of war with its neighbors and with displaced indigenous populations must be interpreted as proof that Rule 8 is true instead of proof that Rule 8 is ridiculous nonsense.
Rule 10: The lives of people in Muslim nations are much, much less important to us than western lives or Israeli lives. Nobody is allowed to think too hard about why this might be.
Rule 11: The media always tell the truth about Israel and its various conflicts. If you doubt this then you are likely in violation of Rule 6.
Rule 12: Unsubstantiated claims which portray Israel’s enemies in a negative light may be reported as factual news stories without any fact checking or qualifications, while extensively evidenced records of Israeli criminality must be reported on with extreme skepticism and doubtful qualifiers like “Iran claims”, “Hezbollah says” or “according to the Hamas-run health ministry”. This is important to do because otherwise you might get accused of being a propagandist.
Rule 13: Israel must continue to exist in its current iteration no matter what it costs or how many people need to die. There is no need to present any logically or morally grounded reasons why this is the case. If you dispute this then you are likely in violation of Rule 6.
Rule 14: The US government has never lied about anything ever, and is always on the right side of every conflict.
Rule 15: Israel is the last bastion of freedom and democracy in the middle east and therefore must be defended, no matter how many journalists it has to assassinate, no matter how many press institutions it needs to shut down, no matter how many protests its supporters need to dismantle, no matter how much free speech it needs to eliminate, no matter how many civil rights its western backers need to erase, and no matter how many elections its lobbyists need to buy.
Reading by Tim Foley.