Big shout out to all the Jews protesting against israel they completely destroyed this narrative.
Are others going to label them as “anti-semitic Jews”? I feel like it would be ironic and ridiculous but I’m not that smart.
Wouldn’t be the first time “self-hating Jew” has been used to shut down any kind of anti-Zionist critique. Bernie Sanders had his face shoved in that turd all through 2016. I remember hearing it tossed around since at least the Bush Era, when being against the Iraq War was framed as a form of anti-Semitism.
I’ve already seen it. I think the common term is “self-hating Jew”.
“anti-Semitism” used to be a term with a lot of weight and serious connotations. Now, it’s been misused and abused so often that the power it once had is gone.
If anyone who disagrees with the genocidal far right government of Israel is an anti-semite then, of course, the term will lose it’s power to shame actual bigots. It should surprise nobody that actual anti-jewish bigots are coming out of the shadows.
I never understood why anti-Semitic was applied to Jews but not Arabs. Does anyone know why that is the case?
Given the end is an intended death can we turn the term “Suicide” into the term?
I was misquoted by an industry rag as one many years ago. I’m a huge fuckin Jew. People look for the negative
I heard them being called “self hating jews” or “traitors” think Dixie chick’s during Iraq or MLK in the boondocks.
I’ve been labeled an anti-semetic Jew for speaking against Israel’s government.
I say fuck Israel, not fuck the Jews. Not sure who’s the target audience here
Yeah, fuck isntreal
Well that’s a relief, I thought I was missing out this whole time
Authoritarians don’t want you to know this, but:
The people are not the state.
The state is not the people.
Nobody is born anywhere on purpose.
You can condemn the Israeli state without being a Nazi.
The problem is that “Jew” can refer to the ethnicity, the religion, or the state. The same word for 3 different groups. One of them should be denounced but people are too stupid to realize the other 2 groups aren’t necessarily the same people.
Another problem is that Israel is an ethnostate, which is rare in the world today. Yes, you can be an Arab Israeli technically. It’s not a perfect example.
The problem is that creating a state as a “Jewish homeland” is inherently exclusionary to non-Jews. It’s a really backwards idea since the concept of adoptive nationality arose in the late 1700s.
France has a strong culture but is not exclusionary to it’s neighbors (Germany, Spain, etc.). Many border regions share culture with those countries. A person from the south of France has more in common with northern Italy or Spain than someone from northern France.
Do the parts of Israel that neighbor the West Bank and Gaza have similar interchange of culture and ideas? No.
Those PARTICULAR Jews suck!
Some people can, others… well… i think the antisemitic comments are the point for some.
If someone wants to tie their religious identity to a fallible government, that’s their brain damage.
Separating the actions of the state from the actions of the church: Impossible
Did anyone else never notice Double D is pointing at a page that’s double the width of the book and has been folded out?
people give a shit about antisemitism far more than any other anti religious sentiment, especially anti muslim rhetoric
My friend, you know that’s just not true. You’re probably trying to talk about your particular country or perhaps your particular city, but on a global scale the claim is simply false.
Lately I’ve been seeing a whole lot more crying about antisemitism than actual antisemitism.
Seems like someone doesn’t appreciate questioning support for Israel’s colonialist genocide they call Zionism.
I don’t condone the use of drugs on a given day in the week.
Sadly these days that’s just not reality.
My Jewish neighbors shot out window is a reminder of this. I don’t think that 30 year old Canadian lady has much sway over the Israeli war cabinet. I could be wrong. She was followed home from a peace rally in front of a human rights museum.
Cops are investigating it as a hate crime, hopefully they catch the terrorists who did it but a buddy on the force tells me they don’t have much to go on. No doorbell cameras caught the car, the house is only a few off the corner. The neighborhood is freaked out.
Antisemitism can be defined arbitrarily by Zionists. Criticizing Zionism is often labeled as antisemitic. You cannot win by playing this game.
The easiest is to ignore this label and look at the facts. If I am an antisemite for not wanting psychopaths to kill Palestinian children, and want said psychopaths to be justly charged for their crimes, then so be it, I am an antisemite. I don’t care.
I think it crosses into antisemitism when any/all Jewish people are targeted. Like the people shouting “death to all Jews” have certainly crossed that line.
I have seen far more “death to America” on here than “death to Jews”, in fact I haven’t even seen a “death to Jews” on lemmy yet.
I sure do wish everyone would STFU about this stupid fucking war. Nobody’s opinions are changing; nobody knows jack shit about it; all news sources on it are propangandized; no public official gives a single fuck what you think about it.
Condemning the deaths of Palestinians is not inherently antisemitic
FTFY
Anti-zionism =/= anti-semitism.
Pro-Palestine =/= pro-Hamas.
Anti-Hamas =/= Pro-Israel.
Zionism = the belief that the Jewish people have the right of self-determination in the form of the state of Israel in which their national aspirations
Anti-zionism = the belief that the Jewish people, uniquely among all the peoples of the world, have no right of self-determination or a state in which their national aspirations can be pursued.
Can you see why that’s antisemitic?
Israel is, besides all that, already established. Zionism was completed. It’s not going anywhere.
Anti-zionism = the belief that the Jewish people, uniquely among all the peoples of the world, have no right of self-determination or a state in which their national aspirations can be pursued.
I don’t believe in rights at all. I believe the existence of nation states is an abhorration. but neither of those are why you are wrong.
antizionism is the belief that the Jewish people are part of a diaspora, and the creation of an Israeli state undermines that culture in addition to necessitating mass killing that is indistinguishable from genocide. antizionism simply opposes zionism, and makes no claims about denying rights to anyone.
I believe the existence of nation states is an abhorration.
But it’s only when the Jews claim the same right as every other people that you have a problem.
Think about that for a minute.
antizionism is the belief that the Jewish people are part of a diaspora, and the creation of an Israeli state undermines that culture in addition to necessitating mass killing that is indistinguishable from genocide. antizionism simply opposes zionism, and makes no claims about denying rights to anyone.
This isn’t what Anti-Zionism is. It might be what you mean by it, but it isn’t Anti-Zionism. Partly because Zionism – and the establishment of an Israeli state – does not, and never has, necessitated mass killing.
It does in fact make claims about rights – it specifically selects out Jews as the only people who are not entitled to self-determination and the aspiration to nationhood in a state of their own and in their homeland to which they are indigenous.
Show me where all the white people are displacing and killing others so they can create their perfect ethno-state. Show me where black people are doing that too. While we are at it, let’s throw in every other ethnicity on the planet and see where their rightful ethnostates are.
