• SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    8 months ago

    Israel has said flat out that it uses antisemitism accusations as a means to stifle criticism. Have you not seen the news since Oct. 7th? We have zionists swearing up and down that "from the river to the sea" is antisemitic for christ's sake. It's totally trivialized the word and given cover to actual antisemites, I'm talking real neo-nazis to spread hatred, it's totally backfired.

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        8 months ago

        The ADL is so fucking craven and cowardly with it's shit. The head of it was gloating the other day on CNN over Asna Tabassum getting stopped from speaking.

    • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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      8 months ago

      that doesn't mean that the word antisemitism has no meaning or that antisemitism isn't a real and present factor.

      • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        The concept is very real, and absolutely a pressing problem.

        The word becomes less and less meaningful the more zionists use it to justify blowing children to smitherines.

      • AfterthoughtC - he/ him@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        Zionist are just extremely disingenuous. I read Innuendo Studio's curious cat and every Israel apologist there just talks like they are trying to get him in a gotcha. Some examples that come to mind:
        -Keep accusing him of wanting to exterminate Israel or being in the 'Israel should not exist' camp when his stand has always been 'Israel should stop being an aparthied and grant equal rights to Palestinians'
        -Accusing him of comparing Jews to nazis (more often than not is other curious cat askers on his page that are comparing Israel, not the Jews, to the nazis). Every time he says 'Israel is conducting genocide' these hasbara brigaders jump to accusing him of calling Jews Hitler.
        -I remember one user who after Innuendo Studios said that Israel should stop being an ethnostate/ aparthied was like 'oh so you support soft genocide where one race mixes with another to eventually produce offspring who dont resemble their parents'. When he called this mindset out as nazi shit they, predictably, accused him of calling Orthodox Jews nazis.
        -Inventing bullshit hypothetical scenarios that are not happening right now. Like wrt the Ansar Allah blockade one asker was like 'would you still support them if they were nazis'. Basically what he called Values-Neutral Governance in the You Go High, We Go Low Alt-Right Playbook video.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Israel should not exist. This is not anti-Semitic to say. Colonial projects have no legitimacy and Israel has no more right to existence than Rhodesia or Apartheid South Africa