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Good news: I’m seeing actual vocal support for Palestinians and acknowledgement of the genocide from average people. Bad News: I’m hearing actual anti-semitism now (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by Lussy@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Not some 300th degree of abstraction where you have to trace constellations to land on some vague anti-semitic idea.

I’ve had several instances in the past few weeks in which I’ve spoken to otherwise politically oblivious people and heard actual condemnation of the genocide. Followed up with the conflation of Israel with Jews, ascribing all the awful shit the piece of shit country to Jews in general.

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

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[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Half of Germans weren't wiped out in a genocide in living memory (which makes israel all the more fucked up, but it is a difference between those two things). You can and should be anti Zionist but it's wrong to think that antisemitism is somehow meaningless or not worth talking about when it is legitimate, just because they use it as a bullshit excuse doesn't mean it doesn't still happen pretty often too.

[-] Chertstone@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Israel was already in works before the holocaust - it only solidified Zionism in the surviving european jewish population and gave western states a very "good" reason to support israel without limits.

But anyways, yeah anti-Semitism still exists but centering it each time when israel kills people is also a choice.