Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide
https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342
Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.
Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):
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https://lemmy.world/post/16211417
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https://lemmy.world/post/16235541
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Most of the western world does not agree that criticism of israels right to existence is illegal or antisemitic.
The world mods permabanned me for clarifying that israelis are as native to Palestine as the Russians are to Crimea.
“To be fair, Israelis are extremely European. In fact 75 years ago they mostly lived in Europe. They should consider going back. The problem here is that Putin was banned two years ago for war crimes and israel is not while it is committing a massive Genocide.”
= Permaban for Anti Semitism.
So you confirm you used the original meaning? Then yes, that’s pretty average Western. You wrote it as if it was some extremist position, but it’s not, hence my question.
There’s probably some western countries or political groups that will judge this as being antisemitism because they follow the logic that the existence of Israel is essential to the survival of the Jewish people. This idea was obviously much more consensual after WW2 than today.
There are some groups Zionist lobby like AIPAC that will argue that. I don’t care about those groups. They call every and all criticism of israel antismitic.
There was no mention of Judaism and israel is not a Jewish state to begin with. It is a Zionist state.
This is like Hexbears calling negative things about China Sinophobic.
Only Zionists subscribe to the notion that saying israelis are European colonists is “antisemitic”. And going as far as to ban a user for it is hardcore Zionism. Thus the /news mods are provably Zionists.