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brooklyn13, So you easily accuse others of conflating Jews with Israel, yet you conflate what possibly could simply have
been a tweet by only one individual in support of the Hamas atrocity with the whole BLM movement. Repeat to you:

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people, and promote anti-racism. Its primary concerns are incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.[1][2][3][4][5] It started following the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Rekia Boyd, among others. The movement and its related organizations typically advocate for various policy changes considered to be related to black liberation.[6] While there are specific organizations that label themselves simply as "Black Lives Matter," such as the Black Lives Matter Global Network, the overall movement is a decentralized network of people and organizations with no formal hierarchy.[7] The slogan "Black Lives Matter" itself remains untrademarked by any group.[8] Despite being characterized by some as a violent movement, the overwhelming majority of its public demonstrations have been peaceful.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

That revisited, one other - This is you and what you are defending while soaking yourself and Zionist Israel in unmerited victimhood:

brooklyn13, Israel’s hugely controversial “nation-state” law, explained

Related:
The U.S.-Israel Relationship No Longer Makes Sense
[...]In U.S. political discourse, it is axiomatic that Israel is in a constant struggle for survival. But this narrative is an anachronism. Israel is in a better strategic position than ever, and its sovereignty is beyond question. Let’s take a tour around the region: Israel has peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. It has normal relations with Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates. The Israelis also have informal ties with Saudi Arabia. Qatar allows Israeli diamond traders to do business in Doha, and Oman has recently agreed to open its airspace to Israel’s airliners.
P - Along with its Arab partners, the United States, and Europe, Israel has managed to marginalize the Palestinian question.
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"t's hard to tell if you're serious about this but this is an unsupportable opinion in the actual, real world. By your
logic, those other countries couldn't be Islamic if they had a sizable population of Jews, but that's ok, amirite?"

No

Supporters call Israel’s new Jewish nation-state law a “defining moment.” Critics say it’s “apartheid.”

[...]

The law does three big things:

1. It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”

2. It establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, and downgrades Arabic — a language widely spoken by Arab Israelis — to a “special status.”

3. It establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” and mandates that the state “will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development.”

Each of these statements would be contentious on its own, but taken together, they’re a clear, unequivocal statement of how the Jewish state’s current leaders see both the country and the diverse people who call it home.

Each of these statements would be contentious on its own, but taken together, they’re a clear, unequivocal statement of how the Jewish state’s current leaders see both the country and the diverse people who call it home.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government backed the legislation and was overjoyed at the law’s passing. Netanyahu lauded the law as “a defining moment in the history of the state” — a phrase that was splashed across the front pages of Israel Hayom, the country’s most-read newspaper, which is often described as Netanyahu’s Fox News .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/06/20/netanyahus-warning-no-news-but-my-news/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b4a6f1db87a4 .. for its favorable coverage of his government.

But for Israeli Arabs, who make up one-fifth of Israel’s 9 million citizens .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/one-more-racist-law-reactions-as-israel-axes-arabic-as-official-language , the new law was a slap in the face. When the law passed, Arab parliamentary members ripped up copies of the bill and shouted, “Apartheid,” on the floor of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament).

Ayman Odeh, the leader of a coalition of primarily Arab parties currently in the opposition, said in a statement that Israel had “passed a law of Jewish supremacy and told us that we will always be second-class citizens.”

Palestinians, liberal American Jews .. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/israel-nation-state-law/565712/ , and many Israelis on the left also denounced the law as racist and undemocratic. Yohanan Plesner .. https://www.facebook.com/IsraelDemocracyInstitute/photos/a.350858055009507.79209.270427406385906/1753046991457266/?type=3 , the head of the nonpartisan Jerusalem-based Israel Democracy Institute, called the new law “jingoistic and divisive” and an “unnecessary embarrassment to Israel.”

But at the core of the new law is a deep, existential debate that Israelis have grappled with almost since the country’s founding: Can Israel be both a “Jewish state” that protects and celebrates Jewish identity, and a liberal democracy that protects the rights of all minorities, including non-Jews?

The new law is about longstanding disputes over borders and identity

[...]

But while they certainly enjoy more rights than Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who in turn have it better than Palestinians in the West Bank, who have it far better than Palestinians in Gaza, Arab Israelis say that since the state’s founding, in practice they have not been afforded the same rights as Jewish Israelis. This is one reason why many Arab Israelis refer to themselves as Palestinians with Israeli citizenship.

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, an Israeli human rights organization, has documented .. https://www.acri.org.il/en/category/arab-citizens-of-israel/arab-minority-rights/ .. entrenched discrimination and socioeconomic differences in “land, urban planning, housing, infrastructure, economic development, and education.” More than half the poor families in Israel are Arab, and Arab municipalities are the poorest in Israel, according to ACRI.

[...]

The new law reflects a deeper political shift in Israel and abroad

Some supporters of Israel have dismissed criticism of the nation-state law as just another opportunity to bash the country while bigger abuses happen elsewhere. But others see it as an indication that the Jewish state, and the values it claims to represent, are fundamentally shifting .. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamberger/the-rise-and-rise-and-rise-of-israels-right-wing-media .

Netanyahu has aligned himself with illiberal leaders like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and has even established relations with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

And just hours before the nation-state law was passed, Netanyahu met with Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán .. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-netanyahu-orban-bromance-that-is-shaking-up-europe-and-d-c-1.6290691 .. in Israel. The two have bonded over their shared loathing of anything connected to the liberal, Jewish, Hungarian-born financier George Soros, as well as their shared anti-refugee views.

But Orbán and his government have also been accused of anti-Semitism over some of the language and images used in their attacks on Soros and Orbán’s praise of Hungarian Nazi collaborators .. https://www.jta.org/2017/06/26/news-opinion/world/hungarian-jews-slam-prime-ministers-praises-for-hitler-ally-horthy .. . Netanyahu, though, has publicly painted a different picture of Orbán, calling him a “true friend of Israel .. https://www.apnews.com/938bb193c0894691bf42a6457d1fae4c ” who has pledged to combat anti-Semitism and support Netanyahu’s brand of nationalism.

Internally, Netanyahu’s government has also restricted the space for political criticism, such as promoting laws that make it harder to fund human rights groups .. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/5-quick-points-on-israel-s-contested-ngo-law-1.5482801 .. and forbidding groups that criticize the military .. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Knesset-passes-bill-banning-Breaking-the-Silence-from-schools-543752 .. or occupation of Palestinian land from speaking in schools.

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So there is you and what you are speaking in support of. And there is myself and others who are not in Netanyahu's camp. It is your prerogative not to reply to posts, we all do it. Perhaps this time you could consider replying to that one. If not fair enough. However, you cannot argue that you are not described accurately there.