• NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.net
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    20 days ago

    Many Jews emmigrated to Israel after WW2 and the graphic would like you to think they were murdered, mainly.

    Like, sentiment wasn’t great in those countries before WW2, don’t get me wrong. Pogroms did occur and that’s terrible. But after the establishment of Israel and what Israel then immediately did, all sentiment against Jews in the region is entirely explained by Israels actions and cannot be laid at the feet of those other countries.

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      20 days ago

      Most of the migration was more specifically post-Nakhba than post-WWII.

      I do think it’s plainly obvious that several of the countries on the graph were at least very complicit with antisemitism at some point in time, but two of these are French colonies and Mossad was bombing synagogues in Iraq to cause exactly the effect shown here.

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        19 days ago

        Oh yea, I didn’t feel like going into huge detail about the timeline since the end of WW2 and the Nakhba are 2 years apart.

        Did they love the Jews in those countries pre that? Nope, absolutely not. Did Jews live there for hundreds of years contiguously in spite of that dislike? Absolutely. Did they kill them all between WW2 and now? Hell no. Which is the misleading part.