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6510last Tuesday at 2:59 AM1 replyview on HN

> people vastly overstate the importance of it.

Fascinating, thanks for pointing this out.

> to characterize Israel as a British colony is to deny Jews agency. It is curiously antisemitic, even as it (implicitly) absolves them of some of the blame for how things have gone.

Some hill to die on.


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wk_endlast Tuesday at 5:48 AM

I'm Jewish (though not Israeli); my grandparents were among those Jews who fled to Mandatory Palestine against the British's and Arabs' wishes to escape the Holocaust. Kindly, I think I'm a better judge of the right hills to die on when it comes to this particular subject.