Can't have a struggle if the mods just ban dissenters who make good points and call them out. Real yikes stuff going on in your thread over there defending this kind of logic.

From Palestinian academic Afif Aqrabawi just the other day.

"The Star of David is no longer a religious emblem; it is the geometry of pain, the symbol of massacre and the face of evil.

Palestinians meet it on warplanes, checkpoints, tanks, and uniforms that invade their homes and drag away their children. For decades it has meant occupation, humiliation, starvation, death — the corporate logo of apartheid.

Every incinerated body, every bombed hospital, every mass grave is signed with that star. It is policy, a brand of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

The Star of David is a hate symbol that performs the work of hate: it terrifies, injures, dehumanizes, and proclaims our suffering as divine order. It is not neutral. It is not redeemable. It has been weaponized too completely, for too long. What remains is only the insignia of a terrorist organization that slaughters children under its banner — the flag planted in Gaza’s ruins, the badge of a system built on our extermination.

The Star of David is the mark of my oppressor; to claim it is to be a child-killer and my enemy."