svelteciderMar 6

What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

https://lemmy.ca/post/61396220

What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on? - Lemmy.ca

I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.

Show threadqevlarr

Israel.

I thought it was complicated but they had a right to the land because of the holocaust, that countries around them should learn to get along with Israel

Now I know founding Israel was a mistake. Explicitly saying it’s a Jewish state will inevitably lead to other groups being suppressed, i.e. Apartheid if not outright genocide. And they are not hated in the region because Muslims and Jews cannot get along, but because Israel was built entirely on stolen land, and they are still in the process of stealing more and genocide those who stand in their way

Mar 7 at 7:48amWeb
Show threadBoiglenoightMar 7
This is mine, as well. I used to abhor anything negative about Israel. Now I am the one saying presumed abhorrent things.
Show threadTBiMar 7

It does help explain why people can be anti immigrant. Just look at what the “immigrant” Israelis are doing to the native Palestinians…

(I’m not anti immigrant)

Show threadqevlarrMar 7
True, but Palestinian resistance is completely different than typical western anti immigrant sentiment. There have been Jews, Christians and Muslims living side by side there for centuries. The problem is not that Jews live there or even that many of them moved there. It’s that Israelis set up their own government where native population literally have fewer rights