Okay, so we're saying any country that currently or previously in history appealed to their populace by claiming their rulers were ordained by a deity is just as symbolically connected to their religion as an explicitly religious ethnostate? Have you considered that maybe these aren't perfectly analagous? That there might be context?
Why would anyone see the Israeli national flag as primarily religious?
Because of very successful propaganda conflating the two, and the fact that it's primary (almost only) design element is a main symbol of Judaism. Any arrangement of perpendicular lines that cross is not on the same level of similarity to the cross as putting the literal exact star of david in the middle of a flag. Don't be thick.
This is more of a "lack of grace" for criticizing non-Christian iconography imo. I would hope a website that quotes Marx as much as Hexbear would have plenty of grace in criticizing any religion, so long as they are not attacking other members in doing so.
Don't conflate specifically "hosting an emote with a burning star of david" with all criticism of Israel. Criticism is not at issue here, what is, is merely being the slightest bit sensitive to the hurt caused, and more importantly the incredibly poor optics of portraying a burning jewish symbol, given the relatively recent fascist history of burning synagogues, and genociding jews.
The point is to not needlessly give ammunition to those who would slander us, because while to anyone who spends time here it is obvious that we are not anti-semites, hosting that would make it pretty easy to convince anyone who doesn't spend a lot of time here that we probably are.
Okay, so we're saying any country that currently or previously in history appealed to their populace by claiming their rulers were ordained by a deity is just as symbolically connected to their religion as an explicitly religious ethnostate? Have you considered that maybe these aren't perfectly analagous? That there might be context?
Because of very successful propaganda conflating the two, and the fact that it's primary (almost only) design element is a main symbol of Judaism. Any arrangement of perpendicular lines that cross is not on the same level of similarity to the cross as putting the literal exact star of david in the middle of a flag. Don't be thick.
Don't conflate specifically "hosting an emote with a burning star of david" with all criticism of Israel. Criticism is not at issue here, what is, is merely being the slightest bit sensitive to the hurt caused, and more importantly the incredibly poor optics of portraying a burning jewish symbol, given the relatively recent fascist history of burning synagogues, and genociding jews.
The point is to not needlessly give ammunition to those who would slander us, because while to anyone who spends time here it is obvious that we are not anti-semites, hosting that would make it pretty easy to convince anyone who doesn't spend a lot of time here that we probably are.