• cogman@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “I mean, sure Israel is murdering thousands of children, expelling people from their homes, bombing a sovereign nation unprovoked, and Israel is bulldozing homes to make way for new settlements. But other nations do bad stuff too so this is obviously antisemitic”

    What’s antisemitic is conflating the actions of Israel with Jewish people. Jews aren’t inherently fascist and fascist Jews aren’t all Jews.

    This is also fucking disgusting as antisemitism is a real thing. Trying to conflate it with Israel critique makes people take antisemitism less seriously which is also dangerous.

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      7 months ago

      This is also fucking disgusting as antisemitism is a real thing. Trying to conflate it with Israel critique makes people take antisemitism less seriously which is also dangerous.

      This right here. People saying this don’t care about antisemitism, they just want to feel good while they defend their favourite apartheid state

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        7 months ago

        Oh? What’s the official number? Perhaps you can report how many children Israel has counted.

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        7 months ago

        Start watching any news. I would love to see any count that has the number of kids dead not in the thousands.

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          Yeah I’m sure Hamas using human shields has nothing to do with children being killed as well.

          Damn IDF, why can’t they just accept to be shot at if there’s a human shield in the way! Hamas must live on