Because the US really prefers to bury the truth.

Like the average American doesn't know we had schools, or what they were, or that our languages and religions were illegal for us into my lifetime, or that forced sterilization was active into 2018. Or that our children were purchasable until ICWA.

it's a very quick way to ensure cultural erasure. also brings to mind residential schools for indigenous children in canada.

Ooof

Here is the graphic I use when I teach on how the militarization of police has impacted protestors

So you weren’t interested in learning today.

Yup.

Say something worth listening to.

Considering you have populations of Black (aka african) immigrants who have been subjected to forced sterilizations and are in a lower class than non Arab Israelis; and repressed brown people (aka Arabs) the dynamics are related enough for my comment to stick. Stay mad

Yeah you’re right. We’re different. We actually actually abolished our segregation era apartheid system thru mass action while your grandparents were building yours up. But hey at least you are “having negative thoughts” about your country, which is as useful as piss in a bucket.

Oh my bad. I just remembered that Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, recently made it illegal to criticize the country which is punishable by charges of terrorism and subsequent imprisonment. Definitely not the bad guys.

For real. They need to tighten up what they already got before adding in a bunch more buggy shit.

It’s not an assumption when it’s based on measurable evidence by Israeli journalists showing decades of continued violence towards Black and brown people. Learn how to criticize your own country coward.

You understand how that last sentence could absolutely be referring to the IDF, right?

There are folks who will explain away their family members who watched the bombing for entertainment as “a product of their time”