Big shout out to all the Jews protesting against israel they completely destroyed this narrative.
Are others going to label them as “anti-semitic Jews”? I feel like it would be ironic and ridiculous but I’m not that smart.
Wouldn’t be the first time “self-hating Jew” has been used to shut down any kind of anti-Zionist critique. Bernie Sanders had his face shoved in that turd all through 2016. I remember hearing it tossed around since at least the Bush Era, when being against the Iraq War was framed as a form of anti-Semitism.
I’ve already seen it. I think the common term is “self-hating Jew”.
“anti-Semitism” used to be a term with a lot of weight and serious connotations. Now, it’s been misused and abused so often that the power it once had is gone.
If anyone who disagrees with the genocidal far right government of Israel is an anti-semite then, of course, the term will lose it’s power to shame actual bigots. It should surprise nobody that actual anti-jewish bigots are coming out of the shadows.
I never understood why anti-Semitic was applied to Jews but not Arabs. Does anyone know why that is the case?
Given the end is an intended death can we turn the term “Suicide” into the term?
I was misquoted by an industry rag as one many years ago. I’m a huge fuckin Jew. People look for the negative
I heard them being called “self hating jews” or “traitors” think Dixie chick’s during Iraq or MLK in the boondocks.
I’ve been labeled an anti-semetic Jew for speaking against Israel’s government.
some of the most chill, accepting, and compassionate religious people I know are jews. Funny how what those people all have in common is hating zionism.
Sadly they’re not the ones running Israel right now :(
Jews who stand against zionism don’t usually have a lot of motivation to live in Israel. It’s a structural issue with the country.
There are some! At least some who stand against these atrocities. It’s definitely less attractive a prospect, though.
Antisemitism can be defined arbitrarily by Zionists. Criticizing Zionism is often labeled as antisemitic. You cannot win by playing this game.
The easiest is to ignore this label and look at the facts. If I am an antisemite for not wanting psychopaths to kill Palestinian children, and want said psychopaths to be justly charged for their crimes, then so be it, I am an antisemite. I don’t care.
I think it crosses into antisemitism when any/all Jewish people are targeted. Like the people shouting “death to all Jews” have certainly crossed that line.
I have seen far more “death to America” on here than “death to Jews”, in fact I haven’t even seen a “death to Jews” on lemmy yet.
We generally overrate labels. Labels can always change their meaning depending on who you ask, and this meaning is manipulated to gain political points.
Majority of people here do not oppose Jews based on nationality and only stand against Israeli army and government committing war crimes and inflicting massacre on Palestinian civilians. Good luck twisting that.
“Those that shoot missles and kill civilians are responsible for their death regardless of circumstances.”
“If you think I am criticizing Israel instead of Hamas then you are admitting you can’t tell the difference - and that’s a ‘you’ problem”
The classic Israeli response is the same line used in Iraq and Afghanistan to justify civilian deaths. Terrorists are hiding behind human shields, so its their fault if civilians die.
Combine this with the modern military rhetoric of “smart bombs” and “precision strikes”, the chronic effort by military bean counters to reclassify collateral murder victims as “enemy combatants”, and the intentionally gullible media establishment more invested in getting interviews with high profile bureaucrats than establishing an objective view of world events, and you end up with news articles that posit all state military claims as true-until-proven-otherwise.
Even the framing of the conflict, calling it the Israel-Hamas War rather than the Israel-Palestine War, is intended to deflect any criticism of the genocidal intent of the invading Israeli army onto the Palestinians they are slaughtering.
I say fuck Israel, not fuck the Jews. Not sure who’s the target audience here
Yeah, fuck isntreal
Well that’s a relief, I thought I was missing out this whole time
And if it’s all too complicated, you’re always free to STFU.
This was me for most of the time since this started lmao. I read a lot of news about it, but had pretty much no idea what was going on (still don’t 100% ofc). No shame in STFU-ing :)
We’ve lost the art of stfu if you have nothing to offer, and apologizing or admitting you’re incorrect or your opinion isn’t defensible. Marc Maron does a bit in his most recent Netflix special. We used to say “oh man, I’m so stupid, how’d I miss that, you’re right, sorry” … there’s no regular old stupidity anymore
Those PARTICULAR Jews suck!
My god can beat up your god, nuh uh, bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb
Authoritarians don’t want you to know this, but:
The people are not the state.
The state is not the people.
Nobody is born anywhere on purpose.
You can condemn the Israeli state without being a Nazi.
The problem is that “Jew” can refer to the ethnicity, the religion, or the state. The same word for 3 different groups. One of them should be denounced but people are too stupid to realize the other 2 groups aren’t necessarily the same people.
Another problem is that Israel is an ethnostate, which is rare in the world today. Yes, you can be an Arab Israeli technically. It’s not a perfect example.
The problem is that creating a state as a “Jewish homeland” is inherently exclusionary to non-Jews. It’s a really backwards idea since the concept of adoptive nationality arose in the late 1700s.
France has a strong culture but is not exclusionary to it’s neighbors (Germany, Spain, etc.). Many border regions share culture with those countries. A person from the south of France has more in common with northern Italy or Spain than someone from northern France.
Do the parts of Israel that neighbor the West Bank and Gaza have similar interchange of culture and ideas? No.
Some people can, others… well… i think the antisemitic comments are the point for some.
Did anyone else never notice Double D is pointing at a page that’s double the width of the book and has been folded out?
That’s the joke™️
Antisemitic is a meaningless term at this point.
Really? So Elon wasn’t being antisemitic when he said Jews were destroying white people? That was a perfectly acceptable thing to say?
What in the bad faith… Do you not understand what you’re replying to?
The usefulness of a words ability to describe something has nothing to do with how bad the actions someone does are. Both can be true that the word has lost its meaning and the things that elon do are bad
No it really isn’t. There are people who have a problem with people just because they’re Jewish and you help nobody but them by acting like antisemitism is a meaningless term.
But being against what Israel does, is not antisemitism. It has nothing to do with religion altogether!
Lol, we have a massive issue with anti semitic people showing up at protests and taking over.
It keeps happening every time here and it fucking sucks
It means hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people.
people give a shit about antisemitism far more than any other anti religious sentiment, especially anti muslim rhetoric
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If someone wants to tie their religious identity to a fallible government, that’s their brain damage.
This cartoon is antisemitic
