• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Netanyahu and the Hamas terrorists he literally funded are all far right extremists who are fomenting war for political aims. That he is pleased to smear his detractors with the brush of antisemitism is neither surprising nor confusing.

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      1 year ago

      If you’ve paid any attention whatsoever to the Netanyahu government, all of this was predictable to the point of inevitability. Spew far-right nonsense and genocidal rhetoric, maintain an open-air concentration camp as you consistently chip away at the Palestinian population and land, back Hamas over the relatively secular, moderate PLO, let encourage them kill your own population and wait for a pretext to stomp on the accelerator toward genocide.

      Opposition to a genocide has no inherent tie to race or religion - to call that opposition antisemitic is to make that genocide an inherent trait of semitism - that’s antisemitic. Similarly, what would we call funding a group that will kill as many Israelis as it can over more peaceful opposition? Antisemitic.

      Netanyahu is the worst kind of scum.