“Israel is doing a genocide. The most famous genocide was done by the nazis. So we combined the two symbols.”
Like what is there to defend? Whats left to explain? Fucking idiots.
There's a widespread belief that the star of David is eternally a sacred untouchable symbol no matter what, and anyone who uses it in a negative or satirical context is automatically a nazi no matter how many times it's spray painted on the homes of murdered or ethnically cleansed Palestinians, or carved into their foreheads.
People like to make the comparison to the swastika to emphasize that religious symbols can be co-opted, but the swastika was not used as a symbol of genocide by Buddhists, or any other group for which it was a religious symbol. The star of David is used as a symbol of genocide by Jewish people. I don't think anyone should have to justify the association between the star of David and genocide, that association was created by Jewish people.
There's merit to the idea that it's better to avoid using the star of David to represent the zionist entity because it might reinforce the claim that the entity represents all Jews. There's no merit to the idea that associating the star of David with genocide makes you an antisemite, or that the star of David is somehow immune from association with genocide even though it's Jewish people who created that association in the first place (as I said above, unlike the swastika, which is still not immune from association with genocide).
Still, though this was no secret, we were instructed to treat it as such, sometimes by our parents, sometimes by well-meaning solidarity activists. We were instructed to ignore the Star of David on the Israeli flag, and to distinguish Jews from Zionists with surgical precision. It didn’t matter that their boots were on our necks, and that their bullets and batons bruised us. Our statelessness and homelessness were trivial. What mattered was how we spoke about our keepers, not the conditions they kept us under—blockaded, surrounded by colonies and military outposts—or the fact that they kept us at all.
What a burdensome impulse. Not only do we live in fear of displacement at the hands of a colonialism that professes itself as Jewish, not only are our people bombarded by an army that marches under what it claims is the Jewish flag, and not only do Israeli politicians over enunciate the Jewishness of their operations, we are told to disregard the Star of David soaring on their flag—the Star of David they carve into our skin.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/jewish-settlers-stole-my-house-its-not-my-fault-theyre-jewish/
The star historically was not considered a broad symbol representing all Jews. It was essentially created as such by the early Zionists.
Yeah, I mean this is obvious to everyone with a brain. Any time someone claimed I was antisemitic because I didn’t want Israel to commit genocide I gave that claim absolutely zero weight. That rhetoric isn’t working, they should stop using it because it just makes them seem more evil.
but zionists should keep using it because it's actually really funny to watch them flush their credibility down the toilet.
Like famous anti-semite [checks notes] Yeshayahu Leibowitz said 70 years ago:
I am not shocked, I am making an observation. If I raise my voice it is because some people still don’t know. This why I shout out loud. Judeo-Nazis do exist.
(For those OOTL Leibowitz was an awesome (religious) Jewish philosopher, talking about the Zionist entity in the above quote)
Good, but I can't imagine this ends well for them. Just like kneecap and bob vylan they will be dropped by their record label, blackballed by venues, have their visa revoked in the west, sanctioned and punished legally until they apologize and grovel. I suggest they leave the UK immediately if they wish to retain their integrity and principles and freedom.
Raëlism weirdos taking stray shots 💔
Any pictures or links to the video? It's for research purposes.
Oh wow I did expect the star of David was on an Israeli flag and the article was just being purposefully misleading like they did with Roger Waters.
"Israelis" constantly use the star of David separately from the flag, including when they literally use knives to carve it into the flesh of their victims, or when they spray paint it onto the live-sustaining infrastructure they sabotage as part of their genocide.
i mean the symbol is transposed on top of Trump, Clinton, Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu and images of Gaza. It's clear what the context is and that it isn't about "all jews" but specifically about the genocide that Israel is perpetrating.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.
Rules:
-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --
Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.
All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body.
If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include not just the twitter.com URL but also Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source (archive.today, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org). Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed.
Mass-tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken Markov chain bot will result in a comm ban.
Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.
Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned.
Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society.