Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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If they don't say the "own" part this argument quickly gets used against the west, so as a means to dissociate their murderous regimes that mostly kill people in other countries from other countries they probably began using this argument like this as it wasn't shot down as much and it stuck. Perhaps.
I think it's as simple as implicitly assuming that everyone values the lives of people of other countries (particularly those where people don't look, sound or act like them) less than the lives of people of their own country. They can't help but projecting their own chauvinism/racism onto everyone else. They really believe that this is the default "natural" state of humanity. Yet another instance where the line between liberalism and fascism is incredibly blurred.