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Smallville posted...

oh really, a very vocal section....? possibly you are right though. Had not thought about it

If you're not aware, then you're doing things right. That means you're staying away from Twitter/X and the corners of the internet I'm exposed to. I promise you though that there is a very passionate sect of the left right now that feels all Israelis are animals and that anybody who supports Israel's existence is a genocidal maniac. It's reached the point where they refer to all Jewish people as Zionists. I've seen multiple people on Twitter say that anybody who chooses to live in Israel is worse than the Nazi German soldiers stationed at the concentration camps.

The most mainstream telling point for me was when Ethan Klein from H3H3Productions (popular youtuber/streamer) received the most unhinged hatred for expressing the most tame views on the conflict. He condemned the IDF and the Israeli government, but he said Hamas committed a terrorist attack on October 7th, 2023, and he dared to say that the children in Israel were innocent and not "settlers/colonizers".

For that, he and his wife received countless death threats, and all of his social media is still regularly bombarded with comments calling him sub-human and a genocidal animal. There's been countless "memes" across the internet of his wife murdering Palestinian children and calling her a dog despite the fact that she never did anything besides be involuntarily conscripted to serve in the force (as all Israelis are) for a couple years and likely never saw real action. The Hasan Piker (if you know who that is) discord is particularly bad for this.

It's just especially surprising given that Ethan is giving a take that is further left of what would be considered the mainstream Democrat position on the Israel-Palestine conflict.