I was at a pro-Palestine campus protest and there were times where I was instinctively uncomfortable because they were really hammering in the whole bit about reported ‘antisemitic action on campus’ being a non-issue and I had to remind myself that they aren’t talking about people acting against Jews, they’re talking about people acting against Israel.

It’s my most personal and privileged grievance against Israel. I no longer know if a supposed threat to my safety is a bullshit bludgeon to silence pro-Palestine voices or if the yank reich is actually in town and I need to commute for the rest of the week.

I’ll never forgive them for it. I’ll never forgive them for a lot of things, but this is the most personal grievance I have, and since I’m born and raised a cracker suburbanite, it’s the only one I truly, directly feel in my personal life.

I don’t want this to override, you know, the actually important grievances that are at stake for Palestine here, and I don’t want to make myself the center of this issue when I’m very much not at all, but I guess I’ve just been stewing in this for a bit, and I want to uncap it before it somehow causes me to become a weird crank through lack of addressing the root of the issue and it festering into my belief system shrug-outta-hecks

  • Trustmeitsnotabailou [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Just had this exact discussion in the bulletin thread.

    Anti semetism means nothing any more. It’s a been used as a weapon for decades now and i think we are at the point where it just doesn’t hold weight.

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      nah, it still has its old (real) meaning. and i think europe’s gonna remind the world what real antisemitism looks like soonish. when the collapse really starts to hurt their fascists, they’ll rediscover their roots.

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        the Ukrainians for example are real anti-semites

        also we’ve had anti semitism in Europe ever since the romans decided that anyone who won’t worship the roman gods is also unfilial and plotting against roman society it’s not going away easy

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    Most Jews aren’t Zionists.

    Zionism is not Judaism.

    Anyone who calls you antisemitic immediately and without evidence is probably a Zionist, or confused by Zionists.

    Zionists are Fascists, or Fascist Adjacent.

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    There is something very sick about an ethnostate crying antisemitism. These people have more in common with the Nazis that did genocide against the Jews than the actual Jews. Yet they’ll use their suffering as a shield. It’s messed up.

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    I think my least favorite aspect of this is being told it is in fact I, the anti-zionist jew, who is the antisemite and self-hating jew because I don’t want to support zionist genocide. just makes me see red. I don’t know how they justify it to themselves.

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    anti-apartheid rap idea:

    yo yo yo Zionists be the real antisemites

    (but actually though, the idea that Jews have some homeland that’s far, far away from Europe while Christians are home wherever they find themselves is blantant antisemitism)

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    Pro tip, when someone is actually being antisemitic everyone just says ‘wow, that nazi is a real piece of shit’

    I’ve yet to encounter accusations of antisemitism in the wild that wasn’t coming from someone thar was also incoherently, unspeakably furious that every country in the middle east with edible hummus hadn’t been bathed in nuclear fire yet, or that enough children hadn’t been orphaned. A deeply sick culture

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    The jewish community in Graz uninvited the communist party from their holocaust memorial day, because they where against the raising of the israeli flag on the city hall. So many jewish anti zionist communist (bundisten) where killed in the holocaust and also a lot of communists (in germany about 20% of the communist party members ~70,000) where killed in the concentration camps and even before. What disgrace these zionists are.