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What, no “Spy for Israel”?

Or is that redundant since the German government already gives the Netanyahu regime everything it wants including a lot of genocide denial gaslighting?

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I think you should have phrased this as “what about”.

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Nah, it was a legitimate question, since it would be a logical third button given the context.

A whataboutism would be if I tried to defend the AFD by deflecting to their opponent’s relationship with Israel or something along those lines rather than add it to the transgressions of the far right as I was doing.

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Hmm. Fair enough!

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As far as I’m aware, no AfD politician has yet been caught working for the Mossad.
That might just be a question of time though. Or Mossad agents might be more effective at recruiting the more intelligent AfD members and thereby avoid discovery.
Antisemitism being widespread within the AfD could complicate things further though money might prevail here.

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Antisemitism being widespread within the AfD could complicate things further

Not necessarily. There’s tons of antisemitism in The American Fascist Party the GOP, but they’re 100% on the side of the Israeli government.

In fact, equating Judaism and the Israeli government is arguably a kind of antisemitism itself, since many Jewish people resent being automatically assumed to support the Netanyahu government’s atrocities or even Zionism in general.

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Not all antisemites realized they could hide behind support for Israel…

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I didn’t want to say that not supporting Israel is antisemitic or that antisemites can’t support Israel. I just wanted to say that, on average, antisemites are probably harder to recruit for the Mossad than others.

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Not necessarily. There’s tons of antisemitism in The American Fascist Party the GOP, but they’re 100% on the side of the Israeli government.

The conservative brain works in mysterious ways. Some support Israel because of some end-times prophecy nonsense, some think that every Jew that moves to Israel is one less Jew in their way. Others just decided they hate Muslims more than Jew.

In fact, equating Judaism and the Israeli government is arguably a kind of antisemitism itself

That’s a different thing. You can oppose Israel without being an antisemite, but it’s trickier to explain how you can be an antisemite without opposing Israel. Hating all Jews while somehow militarily supporting those Jews. While it can be explained (see above) you have to admit it is rather counterintuitive.

And anyway I would not expect GOP dynamics to easily translate to the AFD.

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