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Star of David necklace on Amy Winehouse statue covered with sticker of Palestinian flag (www.lbc.co.uk)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not saying it was a good thing because obviously people shouldn't conflate Judaism with Zionism, but my god this is not as big of a deal as the media wants it to be. One confused dumbass putting a Palestine sticker in the wrong place doesn't need to be international news, and I get the feeling this is nothing more than a concentrated effort to amplify the story to support the "pro Palestine = antisemitic" stance that Isn'trael supporters have been bullshitting about.

And that's assuming this was even done by someone pro-Palestine and not some chud trying to stir up shit.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If they had a problem with a Jewish woman wearing a symbol of her ethnicity/culture I don't think there's any greyness or excuse for "confusion," it's objectively wrong. Conflating Jewish identity to Zionism is unambiguously antisemitic whether it's a zionist or antizionist doing it. (btw Amy was a secular jew so this isn't even about judaism either)

But yeah obviously nothing news worthy, it's just one random mf, and could easily be false flagged. Could you imagine a single media outlet reporting on a zionist putting a coin sized Israeli sticker on the statue of a muslim?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago

Yeah this shit is not cool and also makes the movement look antisemitic do not do shit like this.

If she was waving an Israeli flag that would be different, but acting like Judaism is Zionism is antisemitic.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

This should be city local news at best, a fucking sticker, and its headlining a ton of mainstream shit to fearmonger our movement

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Amy's father Mitch Winehouse had this to say

I've got a feeling it was an Amy fan, and possibly didn't understand the gravity of what they've done. Amy was a unifying force, she probably has more Muslim fans, because there's more Muslims, than Jewish fans. My friend of mine was in Dubai a couple of weeks ago and Amy's merchandise, flying off the shelves

Imo the person who did it probably knew but her father clearly doesn't gaf lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How does this sticker gets an article from big names like The Guardian, BBC, the Independent and Fox News?

Last week there was an open nazi march in Nashville. I tried to find a mainstream news article on it to send to a friend. I remember I couldn't find anything from NYT, WSJ, FT, or any of the mainstream papers. I think the top results were from a local NBC affiliate and the Jerusalem Post.

All due respect, but in what world is that more concerning or scary than a group of masked, probably armed, chuds openly marching with swastika flags in broad daylight? My god father's parents were holocaust survivors and they'd be rolling in their graves if they saw those swastika flags waiving.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Last week there was an open nazi march in Nashville.

scary shit. hope an asteroid obliterates the United States.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Defacing by using a removable sticker? Riiiiiight. Took all of a few seconds to clean. Real tragic.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

yeah but someone had to come around from a private cleaning company and they had to remove the sticker correctly and it cost the city atleast 20.000£

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Honestly a little bit of bad vibes from this one

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

defacing

It was a sticker.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but now they have to buy a bottle of Goof Off and the fumes make them dizzy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But don't they get hazard pay for that? Or at least overtime?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I really hope the the-pigs who got tummyaches from Shake Shack and accused the staff of poisoning them never got any extra money for it

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why does she even have statue?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Probably for the same reason that there's a statue of Robocop going up in Detroit (eventually! this year, we swear!): cities like to erect monuments to local pop culture icons because it promotes tourism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

So what they are trying so say is that being mid singer and overdosing drugs make her a local culture icon? I could believe that, it's England after all.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

being mid singer and overdosing drugs make her a local culture icon?

Being famous made her a local culture icon. Dying to an eating disorder and alcohol addiction isn't really relevant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

And this one

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

because she was a beloved cultural icon who lived in the area? really not uncommon.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Blacks rule!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

And yet, when I put googly eyes on mannequins at Target, that doesn’t become international news.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If she had any morals she’d want a Palestine flag on her memorial anyways.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

British police has time to investigate someone putting a sticker on a statue?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I've taken down dozens of fascist stickers in my area, no police involved

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In certain sects of lib/Chud discourse, supporting Palestine = supporting terrorism. I've seen people call Lula a terrorist for daring to question Israel's right to bomb children.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

blacks-rule

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

would you mind explaining this picture? i have seen it twice in this thread and i don't understand the reference

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

A reference to this cracker, who definitely didn't do this to his own driveway. This is how The Blacks™ do crimes, as we all know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

The real crime is that "likeness"