• @disguy_ovahea
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    It’s despicable how Netanyahu leverages antisemitism as a defense of his actions. He seems to believe it fosters unity, when all it’s done is dilute a concept that has plagued Jews for millennia. He needs to go.

    • @TallonMetroid
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      I think you’re giving him too much credit. He’s just saying whatever will let him keep the hostilities going so that he doesn’t leave office and promptly get his ass thrown in jail for corruption.

      • toastboy79
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        Jail is a tad bit kind don’t you think? Should try and convict him in Nuremberg just like the Nazis.

        -A different antiwar jew

        • @TallonMetroid
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          As much as I agree that he absolutely deserves to hang for crimes against humanity, there’s no chance of that ever happening, so it wouldn’t be a factor in his decision making. Getting ousted for corruption, though, was definitely on the docket last year (hell, IIRC whether or not he should even be allowed to form a government at all while the investigation was ongoing was a question that the courts needed to rule on). So it’s really quite convenient for him that Hamas managed such a brazen, large scale attack to let him justify staying in power.

    • @Saprophyte
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      Honestly I believe it’s western media. Antisemitism, antizionism, anti-Israel, and anti-Netanyahu are interchangeable in both left and right leaning networks. They are all vastly different and yet conflated as the se in western media and government.

      • @[email protected]
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        A lot of american wealth backing Israel is from Christian Zionists, which are essentialy apocalyptic death cultists.

      • @disguy_ovahea
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        You can believe that, but the conflation with US news began by repeating Netanyahu’s defense.

        The OED, Merriam-Webster, and the IHRA continue to define antisemitism as hostility toward, or discrimination against, Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group. The ADL is the only organization that has changed the definition to include hostility toward Israel.

  • @faltryka
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    86 months ago

    I see you. I think of you often when i see people speak on your behalf too.

  • downpunxx
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    this post about israel … is not … antisemitic. on fucking lemmy. oi mi got in himmel. imma have to go lie down for a little while

  • @Aux
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    Netanyahu’s government was elected democratically, thus, yes, it represents YOU! A Russian person can say that Putin’s dictatorship doesn’t represent them, but not you.

    • Flying Squid
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      There are more Jews that are not Israeli than Jews that are. So no, Netanyahu doesn’t represent Jews like me. I was born and raised in Indiana. I don’t speak or read Hebrew. I have no interest in going to Israel apart from the archaeology and I certainly don’t support them.

      But to people like you, I am culpable for Israel’s genocide because of the big nose and the curly hair.

      • @Aux
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        You’re not a Jew, you’re an American.

        • Flying Squid
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          I’m both. What a bizarre thing to say.

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              Why do you get to define who I am?

              I got circumcised by a rabbi. I had a bar mitzvah. My ancestors were Jewish as far back as I can trace (including the ones killed in the Holocaust because they were Jews.). I am entirely steeped in Jewish culture. I am a Jew. You don’t get to tell me I’m not. That’s not up to you.

              • @Aux
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                • Flying Squid
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                  I’ve never voted Republican in my life.

                  Now please tell me why you get to define who I am.

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          “Jew” isn’t a nationality dumbass, it’s an ethnicity and a religion (rather, a group of ethnicities and religions that share common cultural aspects). Do you think that Israel just suddenly became the owner of Judaism after Nakba or something, and all the other Jewish ethnicities disappeared?

          That’s like if you said “You’re not not a Dukhobor, you’re a Canadian”

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            • @[email protected]
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              Lol what? You come in and randomly call a Jewish person “not a Jew” and then get pissy when people (rightfully) call you stupid?

              • @Aux
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                Who’s pissy here?

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                  I would assume the guy saying “fuck off” in response to being given the revelation that Judaism isn’t a nationality, yes? I’m bestowing you with great knowledge, yet you reject me so. How unrefined.

        • @assassin_aragorn
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          You’re feeding right into what Netanyahu wants, you realize? He would like to speak for all Jews and tie them all to Israel.

          And he’s completely wrong. American is a nationality. Judaism is a religion and culture. They are not mutually exclusive.

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            • The_Lorax
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              You should really think about getting better at trolling, your posts just read like someone without basic reading comprehension skills. I suggest studying the wise ways of KenM and his beautiful bullshit

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                • The_Lorax
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                  Says the one who thinks that Judaism is a nationality and not a ethnicity/religion

          • @Aux
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            And if I don’t like Nazis I must be a Hitler incarnate. What is wrong with you?

        • @Bertuccio
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          “Kyle, all those times I called you a Jew, I didn’t mean it. You’re not a Jew.”

    • @RageAgainstTheRich
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      116 months ago

      All these downvotes in your comment history and it still doesn’t click huh?

      “Am i a piece of shit?.. Nah. Its everybody else that is wrong.”

      • Flying Squid
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        When you feel you have the right to define the identity of others, which they clearly do based on their response to me, I think “everybody else is wrong” when you’re constantly disagreed with with is viewed validating their claim.

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        Down votes don’t mean shit. Especially when people are coded like robots to yell at anyone who doesn’t support the status quo and American exceptionalism.

        • @RageAgainstTheRich
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          Oh fuck! I am american!? 😧 and i support the status quo by not being a garbage human being on the internet!? 😮

          I think you might live in a bubble bud

    • @frobeniusnorm
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      76 months ago

      I hate how 50% of the users here on lemmy are all about questioning the medias coverage and support of Israel but blindly cling to the other side. Hamas has been elected too and you can’t possibly think they are doing the right thing. Finally, things are not black and white. Both Hamas and the Israelian goverment commit horrific crimes and the population suffers. Blaming the people in this context would be laughable if it weren’t so sad.

      • @[email protected]
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        More than half of the people currently living in Gaza weren’t at voting age when Hamas was voted in 18 years ago. Meanwhile Israel had 9 elections in that timeframe. Also if you look at polls Israelis who are critical of Netanyahu still mostly support genocide and ethnic cleansing. They are just unhappy with how Netanyahu is managing it.

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          Sure, but Jews are not equivalent to Israelis, which is the point of the meme OP posted.

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            Which i do not dispute at all. I just refuted the “Hamas was voted hurr durr” propaganda argument, which often comes in conjunction with “well the Israeli government isn’t the Israeli people durr hurr”, which the voting proves to be wrong too.

            While Israelis arent representative of Jews in general, the Israeli government and the current genocide is representative of the current Israeli population.

      • @Aux
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        -126 months ago

        That’s whataboutism.

        • @frobeniusnorm
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          There is a line between a simile or parable and whataboutism. It is especially not whataboutism since it is connected to the subject as it concernes the war opponent and i put it into context and used it as an example for my explanation. Don’t use words you don’t understand or at least give an explanation if you accuse me of a logical fallacy.

          • @Aux
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            And you don’t know where this line is. Keep quiet then.

            • @frobeniusnorm
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              Again, if you accuse me of such a thing, please give an explanation. I explained every problem i had in detail and context. If all you are going to do is a “uhuh i have no arguments but keep quiet” this is not worth my time.

              • @Aux
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                If it’s not worth the time, why did you start it?

            • @GeneralVincent
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              You’re really fighting for your life in these comments 🤣 maybe take a break from commenting and touch grass. You’re not getting downvotes on every single comment because everyone here is a dumb MAGA pro-israel Zionist. Your arguments are just flawed

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    • @Linkerbaan
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      36 months ago

      Netanyahu represents israel and Zionism.

      The leader of Judaism was Moses. They wrote a book about it.

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        To be pedantic. Moses was not the leader of Judaism. In fact the term “Israelites” derives from Jacob Israel son of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abrahams other son was Ismael who is the father of the Arabs who mostly turned to the Abrahamic Religion with the Prophet Mohamed s.a.s. As for the descendants of Isaac they had many phases of having more or less on leader or being separately lead tribes, like the famous twelve tribes at the time Moses freed them from the Pharaoh. And if we look at the Torah they weren’t exactly happy with Moses spiritual leadership. Either way Moses was only a short period in a time spanning thousands of years.

    • @Maggoty
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      You do realize you can be Jewish without being Israeli? Right?

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      Only if OP is a citizen of Israel.

      But that isn’t mentioned anywhere in the meme.