• sovietknuckles [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    She joined the crowd in chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – which is largely regarded as an antisemitic slogan that implies the decimation of Israel – before addressing the group herself.

    Interpreting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" as implying the decimation of Israel is a self-report because it means they would rather see Israel decimated than try a 1-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      7 months ago

      The words “largely regarded” needed back surgery as a result of all the heavy lifting they did

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      it's also not anti-semitic to want to see Israel decimated. Israel should be decimated. It should cease to exist. That's not anti-semitic. You can't be anti-semitic against a state.

      • Venus [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        I don't want Israel to be decimated, I don't want 9/10ths of it to remain. I want it annihilated. meow-shining

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      And you know that actual fascists and Nazis are gonna start saying this specifically as a way to express antisemitism with plausible deniability, assuming they haven't already