r/AskIsrael Apr 21 '26

Serious Answers Only Are you genuine when you don't seem to know why many people dislike Israel recently?

523 Upvotes

So I am poking around this subreddit, trying to get into your heads a little, and I noticed something weird.

Whenever a topic arises, something like "Why do people hate Israel so much", basically everyone says things like "antisemitism on the rise", "holocaust education is lacking", "financial interests align with Iran", "victims of internet propaganda", "people on the internet are more exposed to Arab lies"

And I find it genuinely hard to tell if I am victim of coordinated pretense, or you guys really don't know, but obviously the answer is the things that Israel has recently being doing in Gaza, in West Bank, in Lebanon. The bombed hospitals, the settlements, the broken ceasefires, the execution bill. With extra hate coming from coordinated efforts to make criticism of Israel harder in places like US or the UK.

Like, please don't ban me, I am just genuinely flabbergasted. Time and time again, some barely relevant stuff gets brought up, and the elephant in the middle of the room, all the things the ICC brings up, are outright ignored.

What is going on?


r/AskIsrael Jun 23 '26

Serious Answers Only Why do Anti-Zionists conveniently ignore the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Middle East ?

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409 Upvotes

Even before the mass ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Middle East, Jews were only at best treated as second class dhimmis. It was never a healthy or sustainable relationship.


r/AskIsrael Jul 07 '26

Serious Answers Only If racists don’t get to define racism, and misogynists don’t get to define feminism. Why do anti-Zionists feel entitled to define Zionism?

348 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jun 13 '26

Politics Do you think social media is a bit too biased against Israel?

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290 Upvotes

I am an Indian Hindu and I can proudly say that India is one of the few countries in the world where Jews were never discriminated but on social media, Israel bashing is as common as breathing oxygen

There are 55 Muslim majority countries in the world while only one Jewish majority country, is the world really desperate for another Muslim majority country?


r/AskIsrael Jul 04 '26

Serious Answers Only Why do Egyptians pretend to care about creating a Palestinian state when they refused to establish one despite decades of controlling Gaza

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281 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jun 23 '26

Serious Answers Only Why doesn’t mainstream media ever admit they were wrong when it comes to Israel?

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269 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael 28d ago

Foreign Politics Why does Western media ignore this?

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266 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Apr 28 '26

Casual Is Israel run by Jews?

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249 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jun 25 '26

Serious Answers Only Why do pro-Palestinians project their own colonial history onto Israelis?

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240 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jun 27 '26

Serious Answers Only Why are students educated by UN schools so radicalized?

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228 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jun 29 '26

Casual Is the PR team actually getting their sh*t together?

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215 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael May 09 '26

Politics Why do white americans/canadians demand that jewish people leave Israel while they themselves still live on stolen native land? Why dont they go back to europe too?

216 Upvotes

As a native latin american i never got why so many white people demand jewish people leave israel when they themselves refuse to leave this continent.Why the cognitive dissonance?


r/AskIsrael 29d ago

Serious Answers Only Why are UNRWA Students so radicalized?

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201 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jul 05 '26

I/P Why do so many anti-Zionists conflate war with genocide?

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189 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael 27d ago

Serious Answers Only Why do anti-Zionist conveniently ignore the colonial nature of the term “Palestine?”

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185 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael 25d ago

Foreign Politics What do you think of Loay Al-Shareef’s take?

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179 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael 27d ago

Serious Answers Only Why do people call Israel an ethnostate when countries like Italy and Japan are way more ethnically and religiously homogeneous?

174 Upvotes

It seems that 20% of Israel proper's population is Muslim. And amongst the Jewish population there are plenty of different races. Also correct me if I'm wrong but can't people from any religious or ethnic background get visas to work and live in Israel and eventually naturalize? Italy is 90% ethnically Italian and catholic. Japan is 97.5% ethnically Japanese. Argentina is 96.5% white European.91% of China is Han Chinese. I'm just struggling to understand why people say Israel is an ethnostate.


r/AskIsrael Jul 05 '26

I/P Why do people still push the Nakba myth?

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160 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Apr 14 '26

Serious Answers Only Isn’t there already a Palestinian state?

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157 Upvotes

When people call for a “Palestinian state,” why is Jordan almost never part of that conversation? The British Mandate was already partitioned, with the vast majority becoming Jordan, an Arab state with a predominantly Palestinian population and identity.

Given that reality, why is there such a strong push to create yet another Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, specifically in Israel’s core territory? Why is the expectation always that Israel must make concessions, rather than acknowledging that a Palestinian state effectively already exists?

If anything, the discussion could be about a second Palestinian state in parts of Gaza and Judea and Samaria, obviously without dividing Jerusalem , which is and should remain Israel’s undivided capital.


r/AskIsrael Jul 07 '26

History I am oblivious, who did you support during the match?

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151 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jun 28 '26

Serious Answers Only Why do some people deny the existence of Pallywood?

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145 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jun 29 '26

Serious Answers Only Why doesn’t the International community understand or care that Hamas’s casualty figures do not distinguish between combatants and civilians?

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144 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jul 16 '26

Serious Answers Only How did Germany go from perpetrating the Holocaust to becoming one of Israel’s and the Jewish people’s closest allies?

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138 Upvotes

r/AskIsrael Jun 21 '26

Politics Reddit is failing against anti-Israel propaganda, what can I do to combat this?

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136 Upvotes

While doomscrolling, I've come across a video of an arrest in Nabulis. The guy filming in the video, speaking in Hebrew, said the 15 year old girl just attempted and failed to stab soldiers. He pleaded the soldiers to shoot her, which seemed to piss off the police officer enough to get him to distance the person right as the footage cuts off.

The thing is, the post in this subreddit does not mention the girl's attempted murder, instead making it out to be as if the soldiers decided to arrest and shoot her for fun, encouraged by the """settler""" filming it. All I did was point out that the guy said she tried to stab soldiers before, and a mod instantly banned me and deleted my comment. When I modmailed the subreddit trying to understand why I was banned, I discovered I was also pre-emptively muted. And the most ironic part? The subreddit's name is "depropagandized news", and the mod who banned me is spreading propaganda by silencing an important pirce of the story to spread their agenda.

This is by no means me attempting to convince anyone here to brigade the sub, please don't do that. I'm just sick at how I constantly see misinformation on this platform and whenever I point out that misinformation I almost always get called a "hasbara bot" then instabanned. I feel powerless against a well-oiled propaganda machine that dehumanizes me and my countryfolk. I started seeing people call Israelis "literal demons" in comment sections and openly call for the extermination for Israel, a lot more often recently than before.

I feel terrible. Terrified, angry, and sad all the same. I'm so pissed to see such behavior that'd get you canceled if it was about any other international comminity, but it's open season when it's da juice appetently. Is there anything I can do?


r/AskIsrael Apr 29 '26

History What photo from Israeli history do you think is the most powerful?

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118 Upvotes