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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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We don't support isis for "fighting" against the US even though we hate it and the level violence committed by isis doesn't reach the US, and we're not all out supportive of the Taliban, so our support for the islamic resistance in Palestine isn't because isr•el. But because we recognize that Hamas, PIJ and the other groups are actually fighting against the occupation and are not extreme.
This is to all the liberals that come here every once in a while and say we shouldn't be with Hamas because isra°l bad.
This is really worth emphasizing against the caricature that leftists support absolutely any party which could be construed as a counterhegemonic force.
The many differences between Hamas and ISIS really couldn't be clearer if you actually examine both groups. One problem is that the term 'terrorist', at least as commonly used, serves to conflate/equate them.