#I think it'd be really beneficial if sociology was more broadly discussed with social issues online with social justice circles

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I also want to add something important: Israelis aren't just 100% Jewish and 0% any other ethnicity, chances are they're also very much westerners in the fact they were brought up German, Irish, British, US American, etc. In addition to this, Israeli Jews are a dominant social group in Israel, while Jews in other countries are a minority. This changes the dynamic for Israel as a whole and, yes, how they act compared to non Israeli Jews. This isn't a thing about being Jewish at all, it's just how sociology works; when a dominant group has more privilege, there's a sense of entitlement and when they have been brought up in a culture of individualism and patriotism, as in with western ideals? Yeah, they're going to act very differently to those who have not.

The idea of "Jews are sneaky and conniving" comes from a place that demonised Jews for a social construct built from being a minority in Europe/ the west and being demonised for not fitting into western social standards. 1960s Palestine doesn't have the exact same social context of 1930s Germany for example. Meanwhile, Israel being formed off of the exploitation of Palestinians creates a different social context of Palestinians being the oppressed class and Israelis being a dominating class. A Jew in 2010, for example, would have a very different life in Australia or Germany who would be seen as a social minority with less power and rights than non Jews, than a Jew in Israel (Occupied Palestinian Territories) who is seen as a social majority and has more power and rights than a Palestinian. It's about the power dynamic and social structure of a given area, not some inherent "privilege level" that stays the same depending on what category you try to box them into. I, as a queer person, will have different rights and be treated differently depending on where I am and who is around me; that treatment isn't built in who I am but built on specific societies and how they came to be and what factors play into their systems. Jews are about as much inherent victims as I am, so not at all. We're all people, regardless of category which that doesn't denote good or bad. Jews aren't "inherently" anything but people, which means social structure does absolutely come into play depending on where they are and what systems oppress OR benefit them.

How people are treated is dependent on the society they're within, and that societal structure can change depending on geography, culture and history of a specific area. Jews are not an exception, and I'd argue treating them as such is just boxing them into a category of "victims without personhood" in a way similar, if not worse, to other marginalised groups whose struggles are reduced to "how much" or "how little" privilege they have globally rather than addressing the root causes and factors of oppression and marginalisation. If there was a queer majority in a country, chances are we would be an oppressing class, and that doesn't suddenly change because we're an oppressed group in another country. That's why we need to analyse social groups in accordance with the environment and context around them rather than using one-size-fits-all approach like "we'll they're oppressed in my country so they're oppressed everywhere" because that's not how marginalisation works.

The conversation on Twitter around why the Zionist Entity would think that releasing footage of Yahya Sinwar's heroic final moments lead to the introduction to a reality, that I didn't know about, that one of the chief corners of Zionist settler identity is viewing all matter of upstanding citizenship, care for others, self sacrifice, and really any honorable behavior whatsoever as the behavior of naive marks who deserve to be scammed into oblivion. Utterly rotten culture from the very bottom up.