They conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism & anti-crimes against humanity in order to trample on people’s first amendment rights to speech & assembly.
Theyre also ignoring the very real hate crimes being perpetrated against Palestinian-Americans, like the little boy that was stabbed to death by his racist landlord.
If you can’t protest in support of innocent civilians going through an humanitarian crisis then how is the US different from the authoritarian police state fantasy that so many Americans love to project onto places like China or North Korea? What good is your freedom if you can only exercise it when it doesn’t inconvenience the state?
There is no argument that supporting innocent people is hate speech. If there’s no avenue to publicly support Palestinian victims of war then this is literally oppression of political speech by the state. It’s the only thing that the first amendment is supposed to protect and no one in power can even be bothered to pretend that this is a problem.
This is going to radicalize some folks and I am here for it.
saw video of an IDF troop or Israeli cop (not sure which) choke-slamming an anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish man for holding a Palestinian flag.
when I say Zionism is antisemitic, it's based on what I've seen and what I've heard from Jewish people.
the guy got right back up, put his kippah back on, picked up the flag and got in the aggressor's face. Braver than I'd be.
There is much conflation going on, much of it intentional and sinister, but antisemitism does have a specific meaning & etymology pertaining to Jews, according to Wikipedia:
Due to the root word Semite, the term is prone to being invoked as a misnomer by those who interpret it as referring to racist hatred directed at all "Semitic people" (i.e., those who speak Semitic languages, such as Arabs, Assyrians, and Arameans). This usage is erroneous; the compound word antisemitismus (lit. 'antisemitism') was first used in print in Germany in 1879 as a "scientific-sounding term" for Judenhass (lit. 'Jew-hatred'), and it has since been used to refer to anti-Jewish sentiment alone.
I'm pretty sure that using the term "Semite" in any other context than the modern interpretation of "antisemitic", meaining prejudice against Jews, stopped being a thing roughly around the same time that we stopped treating the bible as an authority on the classification of human races. Same with Hamites and Japhetites.
Seriously? Gonna be pedantic about "semitic" and then intentionally use "Zionist" wrong?
Looks to me like they used Zionist correctly.
They're settler colonists supporting a genocidal apartheid ethnostate.
Even liberals can understand how these terms apply - if they decide to honestly interrogate the subject.
Israelites and appropriating semitic cultures as their own, name a more iconic duo.
