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Exposing Jewish Exceptionalism In Canadian Media
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Sure but there's also a dog whistle aspect. Honestly though as a non-jew but also a non-jew hater it makes lemmy a really unappealing platform when every network I go on just wants to talk about (((the jews))). I know that if you click the link and read the article the word Jewish comes up 143 times and Israel 60 but guys.... I just want to read about Canada or something else unrelated to the middle east.
Right, because the specific context is that Israel is purposefully trying to utilize people's understandable distaste for anti-Semitism to cover for its actions, and how Canadian media outlets are helping that happen. When Israel itself is trying to further the anti-Semitic notion that Jewish people totally unrelated to the state of Israel have any relation or responsibility for that state's actions, it makes sense that Judaism might have to come up in the discussion.
Well I have good news. There are many other posts in this community from just today and yesterday that don't relate to Israel or the Middle East at all. But you read and commented on this one for some reason.
Yeah but Lemmy is so terrible. I think I'll just give up and go back to reddit. Lemmy is cool tech but if you don't want to talk about (((the jews))), there's not enough content and it's a really negative space to visit.
I'm sure your contributions will be missed.
You do understand that the Israeli government is committing genocide and that it's very annoying that they managed to brainwash people like you into thinking that any and all valid criticism if Israel somehow equates antisemitism?
Get your head out of your ass
It's like when people scream "Sinophobia!" when someone criticizes the Chinese government, as an example. Criticism and condemnation of a country's government for committing atrocities is not the same as attacking that country's people. Most of the time the people are powerless to do anything about what their government does in these situations.
This is a dishonest representation of what the article is about and why the word "jews" shows up so many times. The article talks about precisely how pro-Israeli spokespeople and news coverage use "jews" as a cover for their pro-Israeli positions. For example, there is a whole section about how nobody except the pro-Israelis call Israel "the jewish state". Another is about how lists of IDF soldiers is being turned around by pro-Israeli spokespeople and their sympathizers as "lists of jews".
In effect, you're doing the same judo move that the article itself documents. You are turning the thread under an article about how criticism of Israel is being derailed by bad faith accusations of antisemitism, into ...a series of bad faith accusations of antisemitism on the entire lemmy platform and community!
Nobody fucking wants to talk about (((the Jews))) except ...you!