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It is antisemitic to claim that Israel represents the jews or judaism. The ties between zionism, which is a predominantly christian movement, and antisemitism have also always been quite close.

Why is it fine with you to annihilate the palestinians to make space for the rather antisemitic project to drive jews out of their homelands? The british antisemitic colonialists didn't care, of course, they just wanted the jews out of Europe. Same goes for evangelical christian zionists, that also commonly see it as a perk that muslims die, and don't consider the much older christian communities in Palestine to be real christians. Where do you come from when you join this pretty distasteful movement?

As for "diverse" in Israel, there's a lot of state persecution of minorities, on racial, ethnic as well as religious grounds. Political minorities are also persecuted, you might even get harassed by the state for putting likes on other people's defense of international law on social media, and politicians like Ofer Cassif are constantly harassed and threatened by attempts to bar him from the knesset.

As for "radical Islamists", the israeli establishment is rather cosy with the genocidal and very islamist regime in the UAE. They're also cosy with european fascists and antisemites, because their interests align with zionist ideology, for example expulsion of jews from Europe and the eradication of "weak" yiddisch speaking diaspora jews and related historical revisionism regarding the Holocaust.

Against this backdrop and the ongoing genocide and several occupations I find it surprising that a global corporation decides to invest in israeli business on the scale of tens of billions of dollars.




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