what horseshoe theory does to a mf
There’s a heart warming lack of libs both sideing in these comments, at least so far, though. So that’s nice
Filed under four-panel memes I was actually hoping would be loss
So communism and nazism gave birth to Palestine? Wtf!? I’m having a really big mental block…
Ah yes, because the eastern front never happened
First they came for the Communists.
And they made lots of love and had a baby called Palestine the end.
First they came. (For the communists)
TBF, communists are really hot and good in bed.
Generally anticommunists insist that the German–Soviet Pact of 1939 was vastly more important. The most important event of the twentieth century even, if not the single most important event in the universe’s roughly 13.7 billion years of existence, period.
I am not kidding when I say that I have seen far more equivalences made between communism and German Fascism than I have seen references to the Axis’s atrocities on the Eastern Front.
I saw this post right before I saw an article about Israel dropping a bomb on a school in Palestine
If you replace the hammer and sickle for an American flag it makes sense … if you replace the Palestinian flag for a star of David, it makes a lot of sense.
And to clarify, it doesn’t mean I am antisemitic … it means I am anti-zionist
It’s best not to bring up the star of David at all, except in condemning the state of Israel for co-opting it for the purposes of Zionist propaganda.
It’s a controversial subject but it is one we should all have on a regular basis seeing as the debate is actually costing the lives of thousands of people … but I wanted to ask …
Besides the star of David, how would you symbolize the zionist movement.
As far as I know, there are no commonly recognized symbols for Zionism aside from the star of David, and this does a great disservice to non-Zionist Jews and anti-Zionist Jews, to the point putting them in danger, because it conflates Judaism and Zionism. You might use the Israeli flag, but again this is fraught because of its insidious co-optation of the star of David.
And they have a British nanny and French maid.
Fucking Sikes-Picot
But why two panels of fucking? That just feels a bit thirsty.
If you prefer we could make it one wide panel
The relationship between actual 1930s nazis and the arab world was kind of complex for obvious geopolitical reasons, but Palestinians pretty much generally denounced nazis. Also back when it might’ve been good strategy not to.
12,000 Palestinians fought against the Nazis in WWII
Couple quotes from the article
One has to wonder why no organization was ever established to commemorate the actions of these Palestinian volunteers. “Many of them were killed and many others are still listed as missing. But no memorial has ever been established for them,” says Abbasi. In fact, the records of the Palestinian volunteers, along with much of their personal archives and papers, have disappeared, much of it lost in the War of Independence.
So who were the Palestinians who volunteered for the British Army to fight the Nazis? Abbasi says they mostly came from the Palestinian elite and that, contrary to what many think, represented “an important and central part of the Palestinian public.” A part of the public that believed it was necessary to stand by Britain at this time, and to temporarily put aside the Palestinian national aspirations – akin to the Jewish idea to “fight Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and fight the White Paper as if there were no Hitler.”
It’s an interesting choice to put the communist on top.
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I wonder if there is anything deeper to nazism being shown as the mom here
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Someone has been watching not enough or too much Simpsons.
I need this but in a civilised polandball style.
