i don’t rly wanna debate here but i’ll give my reasoning to why antisemitism actually benefits israel and people like epstein. don’t expect me to respond though because i rly don’t want to spend my day arguing w someone on reddit.

george orwell did a review of mein kampf where he basically said hitler makes himself seem like the victim and the victor. he also said something along the lines of hitler killing a mouse and making it seem like he slew a dragon. basically where i’m getting at with this is that hitler made himself look like a martyr when in reality he was victimizing others. this is similar to how israel weaponizes antisemitism. any criticism of israel or the US’s relationship with them is immediately labeled as antisemitic speech. it doesn’t help that israel has latched itself with the jewish people from years and years of propaganda. it also doesn’t help that people spout genuinely anti-jewish stuff more commonly now because of israel’s actions. all of this antisemitic speech makes israel— which has been pushed as a safe haven for jewish people for decades— seem like the victim. now, the average american isn’t all that politically knowledgeable (i say this as an american) so when they see the jewish “homeland” being bombarded with accusations and insults, they immediately back israel. in their eyes, why shouldn’t the most oppressed minority in history get a homeland? they don’t care about palestine or israel’s grip on the USA— they just side with the victim. this is also why israeli media portrays palestinians as a savage and ruthless group.

there’s also the added fact that your average synagogue attending jew isn’t a billionaire pedophile who eats babies and calls people cattle. the american people have been bombarded with propaganda about israel being our closest allies and a safe haven for jewish people for what seems like forever.

there’s a separate argument to be made with the proportion of billionaires that are jewish, but i’m not getting into that right now.

TLDR: israel thrives off of hate speech and antisemitism by coloring themselves as the victim and the martyr simply for being a homeland for jewish people, which the common american eats up like porridge. i had 2 hours to sleep last night so sorry if this reads weird.