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AOC knocks 'bigotry and callousness' at Times Square rally for Palestine
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Whenever there's an anti Israel protest, you can guarantee it will devolve into anti Semitism. For some reason you can speak about Palestinians without thinking about their ethnicity and religion but if you bring up Israel the Jew hate jumps out. My wife is Canadian Jewish and has no interest in Israel or politics, but she still gets shit on about Israel, as if every Jewish person on earth is Israeli.
You have to seperate the racism and bigotry from the call to end occupation or nobody will ever listen to you.
I agree, but you have to remember that the Israeli state wants it this way. They want the world to conflate Jewish and Israeli in order to hide their own fascism. And they will drag every Jewish person to their pit if allowed to. Just like Hamas wants to tangle every Muslim into their warped worldview with their holy war bullshit excuse for violence.
Well, I read a lot of people's opinions on why China needs to get nuked since they are lesser humans on mainstream reddit subs, it is not like there is a lot of racism and general hate against China and its citizens on the internet.
Which mainstream reddit subs are these? I used to read r/all but never saw anything like this
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Don't worry, they checked to see if you laughed before they decided how much they were joking.
Political compass memes or something?
A lot of those "both sides" or "free speech" subs are really just right wing with a mask on
Haha lol that's a right wing memesub that's barely in the top 1000. Sure I'm still interested to see examples that they advocate for genocide against the Chinese even there, but it already goes to show the accusation that there's a lot of it happening on mainstream subs is just a big fat lie
It doesn't help that the pro-Israel factions accuses anyone criticizing Israel an anti-semite, even other Semitic people.
It seems that Jews are the only people that can criticize Israel without being called anti-semite. They get the self-hating Jew label instead.
No. Jews who come out against these actions are “self hating”. You can’t win.
Serious questions: Semites are Northern African and ??? Wikipedia was less than helpful, including the embedded link about ancient Semites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people
Semites are a large group of ethnicities that came about thousands of years ago and still exist today. Two of the largest groups are Arabs and Hebrews.
Yeah, was thinking Palestinians are Semites too. Thanks.
Tbf that's probably by Israel's design.
The more people are bullied into associating with Israel by antisemites, the more likely they are to hop on the right of return bandwagon.
This is partially because they want their own version of america's demographic life support, partially because they want more settlers, and partially because they still have a SERIOUS chip on the shoulder over how American jews flatly rejected Zionism and the creation of Israel at the outset.
What anti-Semitic things were said at this particular rally? Do you know? Maybe I missed something, but the article seems rather sparse on details.
There were no anti-semitic things spoken. The issue is that both sides lack leadership and diplomacy. There must be a third party that comes in and breaks up the fighting.
The article is about a specific rally being condemned for being "reprehensible". I want to know why it's being called that and Politico is entirely unhelpful.
Smells of bias.
Anti-israel protests are anti-Semitic the same way that police stop-and-frisk policies are racist.
If you're only subjecting one particular group to this special standard of scrutiny, it really doesn't matter if you, personally, are a bigot. You're participating in a bigoted system.