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tbf, every actual neo-nazi is probably doing everything they can to further piss off Israel. It's just a convenient opportunity is all, if someone is actually a hater.
They're not anywhere close to the majority, the majority just wants to save lives. But they're loud and sometimes clever, and good at hijacking other people's causes.
Both anti-semitism and anti-arabism exist, and both are bigotry, because all Jews and all Arabs are not the same, and will never all be the same. Any more than all Americans are the same.
It's a hard world though, right? Means we're going to need something better than simple, easy tools to wrestle with it. That's just how hard it is, and how little it cares about anyone's wishes for it to be simpler.
In a shitty ironic way, many neo-nazis are showing their really true colors as neo-fascists. They just want to support genocide and at this point, Jews are whiter than Palestinians, and they just want that same thing to happen against Black or Arab people around them. I’m happy to continue to use the word neo-nazi, but it’s a much broader spectrum of shittiness at this point.
Part of it is there's at least two competing factions of crazy-talkers. One is the Book of Revelations types, I don't know exactly how its supposed to work, but they want the second coming, and it's supposed to happen over there and be ushered in by chaos.
Other is Jewish conspiracy theory types, who just like seeing what they perceive as the ultimate "ruling class" brought low. They don't really need any holy book-type religions, their actual religion is just worldly power in all its forms--a depressing confluence of ignorance of what actually makes people strong, and pragmatism towards what it seems like makes people strong to them.
I always think the revelation types that think they're definitely getting saved before the apocalypse is funny. The Bible says 144,000 will be saved, but the current estimate of Christians on earth is about 2.2 billion from what I can find. So you just gotta hit that 0.006545% chance.
While they're at it, they can go to the casino, bet their entire life savings on a single number on the roulette wheel, do that twice in a row, and their odds of winning that are 11x higher than being picked for rapture.