Police have said they are investigating the defacing of an Amy Winehouse statue in north London after a Star of David necklace was covered with a Palestine flag.
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.
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?
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.
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?