Vic Shayne
2 min readMay 12, 2024

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I'm not crazy about the word leftists. At one point it was analogous to far left leaning socialists and communists, which is way to absolutist for me. The left, in general, still supports Israel. And to boot, I never thought I'd see Republicans, including in the Trump cult, to vehemently speak out against antisemitism. This shows a lot of confusion on their behalf, because when Trump was in office they were running around with Nazi flags at rallies, and Trump himself was saying that the neoNazis who incited violence in Charlottesville were decent people.

To your other point, I recently saw a couple of Native Americans talking about Israel's right to exist and that many tribes support Israel. On the other hand, I can see how other natives could rationalize that Israel is just like the US that waged a genocidal war against them and robbed them of their homeland. This is how arguments go; they can be rationalized either way. Facts mean very little.

I would never bring myself to support the right wing agenda in America, especially with a sociopath running for president — a man with a lifetime of criminality, a pathological liar, and a sexual abuser, to name only a few of his qualities. Not that long ago the Republican Party had not sunk into the depths that now border fascism. It's not a great choice, I admit, but I wouldn't support the party that has a leader quoting Hitler in his speeches and promises to pardon the insurrectionists of January 6, many of whom brandish Nazi symbols.

I've watched for many decades over the course of my life as the Palestinians and Arab world slowly transitioned into jumping onto the propaganda bandwagon. Despite what Hamas did on October 7, as soon as they did it the propaganda began about Israel being the aggressor and that Palestinians were just helpless, poor souls trying to defend themselves from a colonizer. It takes an unaware, ignorant person to buy this propaganda and march at college campuses in favor of a group that just committed the most barbaric and heinous acts that were even too horrific to mention on the nightly news (and as a result, most people didn't hear the details).

It's also regrettable and wrong to suggest that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. There is no way a non-Jew can relate to antisemitism; not at all. As proof, we find many Black Americans, including in their medium articles, making absurd claims about Israel and defending the insanity going on on college campuses and daring to compare the protests as similar to Viet Nam War protests.

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Vic Shayne
Vic Shayne

Written by Vic Shayne

NY Times bestselling author writing about reality beyond thought, consciousness, and the self to uncover what is fundamental. https://shorturl.at/mrAS6

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