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Normal people are starting to call themselves goyim and aren’t afraid to call themselves antisemites anymore. You can look at this from many angles (sitting here in Eastern Europe watching history repeat itself again in 4 years is a very discomforting feeling), but all of them are signs of Israel losing US citizenship support at an unprecedented velocity.

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And this is why the Ellisons are quickly ramping up their media empire with the purchase of Paramount (which included CBS who is now ran by Bari Weiss), the freshly inked Warner Brothers deal, and their part ownership of US TikTok (of which Oracle hosts the data now).

>Normal people are starting to call themselves goyim and aren’t afraid to call themselves antisemites anymore.

Normal people distinguish between Israel and Jews and call themselves antizionists. It's Zionists who blur the distinction.

There are several countries throughout history where the citizens have been absolutely obsessed with their own race and considered the crusader state to be the sole representative of it. It never ended well.

And they’ve blurred it so much and thrown around the accusation so frequently and with so little hesitancy that many people are starting to simply not care anymore.

Israel is the Jewish state.

No, no one who calls themself an anti-semite is a normal person, and the people doing that are still a narrow bigoted fringe (though, yes, it is a fringe that Trumpism has emboldened tk greater boldness, like many other overlapping bigotries, and somewhat paradoxically given the way the Trump Administration is itself supportive of not only Israel in the broad sense, but of accelerating the policies most opposed by the public in particular).

Most of the opponents of Israel and its policies in the US are either anti-Zionists who are not and do not identify as anti-Semites, or people who don't even identify as anti-Zionists just opponents of Israeli policy. And many in both groups are Jewish themselves.

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