• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “Pro-Israel” groups should be labeled as furthering antisemitism because their obnoxious behavior causes more people to confuse the war crimes committing genocidal Israeli regime with Judaism. Equating Judaism with Israeli politics is anti-semitic.

    • Farhad@freefree.psOP
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      @raspberriesareyummy

      It is sadly true. I am not sure if they are doing it intentionally or they just don’t understand this.

      By attacking jewish activists like Ms. Rachel, groups like BtSelem and JVP, they are telling people that genocide, racism, torture, murder, starvation and other crimes of Israel and the KKK hooligans of the Ben-Gvir party are “Jewish Values”.

      It is like attacking anti ISIS voices for islamophobic or anti Nazi groups for anti Christian.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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        I think they’re doing it intentionally. A Jewish friend who visited Israel for study way back told me how jarring it was to see how Holocaust trauma seems to be actively being exacerbated so that it can be used for population control. Zionists believe that the state of Israel is absolutely necessary for Jewish people to be safe, and so antisemitism helps further that goal, both in terms of enticing Jewish people across the world to move to Israel, but also in effectively recruiting those who dont move to Israel to advocate for Israel’s aims and existence in their own country