why the line “I respect https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✡️" title="Davids-Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Davids-Stern"> not https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇱" title="Flagge von Israel" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Israel">” pisses me off
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this is something i see a lot and it’s honestly the dumbest line in the anti-zionist play book.

Because if you actually respected https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✡️" title="Davids-Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Davids-Stern">, you would respect the fact that even though https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇱" title="Flagge von Israel" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Israel"> isn’t perfect, it still holds a lot of cultural and religious significance for https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✡️" title="Davids-Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Davids-Stern">

and you would also understand that many people who are https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✡️" title="Davids-Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Davids-Stern"> would simply not be alive if it weren’t for https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇱" title="Flagge von Israel" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Israel">.

On top of that,https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇱" title="Flagge von Israel" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Israel"> doesn’t exclusively represent the government as a symbol, it also represents https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✡️" title="Davids-Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Davids-Stern"> as a people group for a lot of https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✡️" title="Davids-Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Davids-Stern"> people.

You would definitely be mad if someone said “i respect https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✝️" title="Lateinisches Kreuz" aria-label="Emoji: Lateinisches Kreuz"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☪️" title="Stern und Halbmond" aria-label="Emoji: Stern und Halbmond"> but not https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇵🇸" title="Flagge der Palästinensischen Autonomiegebiete" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Palästinensischen Autonomiegebiete">” because you understand that https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇵🇸" title="Flagge der Palästinensischen Autonomiegebiete" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Palästinensischen Autonomiegebiete"> doesn’t exclusively represent the worst of https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇵🇸" title="Flagge der Palästinensischen Autonomiegebiete" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Palästinensischen Autonomiegebiete">’s nation, it represents the people.

TLDR; if you say “I respect https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✡️" title="Davids-Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Davids-Stern"> not https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇱" title="Flagge von Israel" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Israel">” and think it’s woke you don’t actually respect https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✡️" title="Davids-Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Davids-Stern"> and i hate you <3