• rodolfo@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        there were no israeli zionists at the time, I’d say just zionists. please correct me if I’m wrong

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          They were Israelis after the war though, and they lived the rest of their lives as Israelis, so it make sense to refer to them as such.

          And y’know they considered themselves Israeli before the state even re-existed.

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      11 months ago

      The comparison with the Nazis doesn’t help anything and just makes the discussion a quagmire of historical misanalogies.There are dozens of other cruel and horrible examples from history to compare with, pick another one that does not specifically trigger Jewish sensibilities.

      Hell, if you absolutely need to use Germany as an example, use what they did in WW1 in Belgium.

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        There are Jewish scholars and activists comparing contemporary treatment of Palestinians by Israel with nazism. Are they allowed to make comparisons that trigger Jewish sensibilities?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein

        Finkelstein was born to parents who are both Jewish Holocaust survivors in New York City in 1953 (…) Finkelstein has called Israel the “Jewish supremacist state”, and views it as committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people.[5] Through personal accounts in one of his books, he compares the plight of the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation with the horrors of the Nazis.[6]

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          Did I ban anyone from saying anything? Do what you will. FFS.

          All I’m saying is that by picking that rhetorical terrain, you’re choosing to play the game on Israel’s terms and you open up the door to being accused of antisemitism and then you’re having that discussion. It’s a pointless distraction from what they are actually doing.

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        Any Government that prevents access to food, medicine and potable water to a population of their people they feel are undesirable, has racially coded check points, and white-only roads absolutely deserves to be compared to Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia, or the Confederate states. That government also deserves to share the same fates as those other governments.

        Never Again means Never Again without any qualifications.

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        11 months ago

        I understand it hurts, but the ethno-state is the common dream of Hitler and Israel. Facts are facts.

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        You’re all over this thread defending Israel and now you’re equating Jewish people with the Israeli government. Bad faith arguing.

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          Equating all Jews with the monsters committing genocide is… What’s that word again? Oh, antisemitic, right. People simp for Israel so hard they become actual antisemites.

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        Hi, I’m a Jew. I also absolutely hate Netanyahu and the entire disgusting coalition of Likud, Tkuma, Otzma Yehudit and all their Kahanist allies.

        It’s not anti-semitic to hate the government of the state of Israel, as much as they might like to pretend that the terms are synonymous.

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          Obviously criticism of the current Israeli government is 100% valid because they suck. And criticizing it is definitely not anti-semitic.

          However, is calling for the destruction of Israel anti-semitic? Is calling for the destruction of all Muslim states Islamophobic?

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            Yes and yes, imho. The only humane way forward is an end to the killing on both sides and a diplomatic solution. Whether that’s a one, two or five state solution doesn’t matter to me, that’s up to the people negotiating.

            That diplomacy and negotiation feels a very long way away at the moment though.

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        Criticism of Israel ≠ Jew hatred.

        Unless you mean to say that, for example, every Jew in JVP is committing Jew Hatred on a daily basis.

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            Nope, just the people who use KHAMAS to differentiate themselves from the rest, it’s a signal.

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                I’m sorry, you didn’t notice how a number of people with British accents or who are from America just go out and say KHAMAS. Like, are you kidding me? Do you say “KHELICOPTER”? Hamas’ name in English follows the Arabic tradition of ح (ḥā) sound being turned into the “h” letter in English and pronounced like a normal h, and yes, it’s normal to say “Khamas” if your mother tongue is modern Hebrew, but I think you aew still oblivious to the fact that Israeli propaganda wants to “other” Palestinians (by calling them “Arabs”, for example). In this case, it’s by deliberately mispronouncing the English name of “Hamas” (any person interested enough in a thing usually learns to pronounce it correctly, lots of people in the UN said “Hamas” regardless of their mother tongue when they spoke proper English) but Israeli officials want to degrade Hamas, make Hamas sound bad through and through, and often when you hear KHAMAS, you also hear “KHAMAS ISIS” even though no self respecting expert would make such a comparison. But that all starts to look terrible when you realize that Hamas in Israel means all of the Gazan government. The IDF has bombed governmental buildings, stopped all social work, and obstructed police that were trying to rescue people from under the rubble because those police are “KHAMAS”. Any social worker or nurse at a public hospital is KHAMAS. etc.

                So when I say KHAMAS, please don’t think of me mocking a Jewish Israeli speaking on the news about the atrocity their witnessed on October 7th. Instead, think of [this man who’s quite a piece of work] (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPnI6jD-k8I)

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        History is tolerated. And I’m talking about Israel no Jews. Maybe another few years back to school could help?

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        Israel is an ethno-state, people fighting on behalf of Israel want to eradicate Palestinian people. This doesn’t have anything to do with Jewish people in general. To conflate Israel with Jewish people is itself antisemitic.