• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Imagine how hard it must be for anti-Semitism advocacy groups right now

    Let’s be clear,anti-semitism is wrong, and what’s been going on isn’t helping matters for israel unaffiliated jewish support groups that are actually doing positive work.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, these days when I read anything about antisemitic crime I always have to check if it’a actually people being racist or if someone just said israel bad. And of course israel doing their genocide is also driving up actual antisemitic crimes, because plenty of people think that israel=all jews, and understandably people are angry so they look for a “deserving” target. Which israel is also not helping with since their constant cries of antisemitism are implying exactly that.

      And in reality it’s not even all israelis (not like most people living there these days chose it), and while far too many seem to support the genocide, they’re also under heavy propaganda.

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        13 hours ago

        Not all Israelis, sure, but settlers definitely. Nobody’s forcing them to attack Palestinians and destroy their property.

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      20 hours ago

      Oh absolutely, but the problem is that when those advocacy groups call everyone anti-semitic for calling out war crimes, they lose all credibility.

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      17 hours ago

      This only works if the reason they hate you is because you’re Jewish. We hate them because they’re murdering bumblefucks. Not antisemitic at all.

      I’m part Cherokee, I should hate the white man. Not because they’re white, but because of the trail of tears and nearly eradicating Indians.

      It’s not racism in the slightest.