So you aren't allowed to state an observation because some fucktards will take it the wrong way and spin it into anti-semitism?
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Exactly so.
I remember like 20 years back when the Israelis managed to smart bomb a UN observation post in Lebanon killing a few UNTSO observers one of whom was Finnish, and the Finnish foreign minister at the time (Tuomioja) remarked something like that he doesn't understand how someone can manage to accidentally smart bomb a known UN post that's painted bright white and has "UN" written on the roof in horse-sized letters.
The Israelis called him an antisemite.
Can we avoid, even jokingly, accommodating the Zionists by saying anti-Israel and antiisemitism are the same thing when they absolutely aren't?
Dr. Franke was not antisemitic and actual antisemitic stuff is happening in the U.S. that gets a lot less attention. Many don't know about this and many more probably dismissed it. A few even justified it as a protest against Israeli genocide despite many of the graves being of Jews who died before Israel even existed as a nation.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/us/cincinnati-jewish-cemeteries-vandalism/index.html
Zionists are helping to normalize that sort of thing by desensitizing people to the concept of antisemitism. The fact is that there are people, sometimes very dangerous people, who hate Jews because they are Jews and that should not be minimized any more than Israeli genocide should be minimized because they are both things that no one should tolerate.
This is definitely not helped by many of the most vocal anti-israelites also being antisemites (at least from my experiences irl, along with what I've heard from family).
One of the many reasons I keep that part of my identity hidden irl. It's a lot less bad on here, but still an issue.
Zionists want antisemitism. Zionists need antisemitism. The only moral claim to Zionism is that Jews need a safe place in the world. They construct Israel as this place by making Jews everywhere else in the world unsafe.
This is why there is multiple unholy alliances between antisemites and other bigots and Zionists.
Well said.
Not until Israel stops being used as a weapon to silence dissent.
At the moment calling it out at every step is the right move. A peoples are actively being wiped off the face of the planet, that’s got priority.
Letting them control your language is the opposite of calling them out. It’s letting them win.
This reeks of “Black people shouldn’t let racist words affect them”
In what possible way?
In that you’re trying to get people to ignore the impact of the words and what it’s doing to victims of it?
I am in no way doing that. Why are you making such a nonsensical accusation when I explained why I said whst I did in great detail?
Refusing to let them win the propaganda war by policing your language does not in any way do that.
You’re basically accusing me of being a bigot by saying that a word that should describe bigotry is being used to describe things that are not bigoted to support a genocide.
You are in every way doing that.
You are promoting that others downplay or outright ignore the importance of what is happening with the word today, because you’re more concerned with a lesser evil meaning of the word being lost.
In one thread you’re complaining about me not being civil and in this one you’re calling me a bigot. Who am I even being bigoted against? Antisemites?
In one thread I’m complaining about you making a personal attack on my character.
And in this one I’ve never called you a bigot, those are your own words you keep using to describe yourself here.
In here I’ve accused you of ignoring why calling out the usage of the word antisemitism is important to the victims of it amidst an ongoing genocide.
This reeks of “Black people shouldn’t let racist words affect them”
That is absolutely implying I am a bigot, so I have no idea why you’re trying to gaslight me.
And by "take it the wrong way"you mean "intentionally misconstrue", of course.
Why are you so antisemitic? /s
feck, you got me :(
Fuck all zionists.
Death to Israel and all Zionists worldwide 🙏