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Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been labeled "antisemite of the Week" by the Jewish watchdog group StopAntisemitism following her arrest at an anti-Israel rally. The group criticized Thunberg for aligning with protesters who oppose Israel, accusing her of turning her activism into a platform for anti-Semitism, the New York Post reported.

"She has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred," the organization said.

Thunberg, 21, was arrested on September 4 while demonstrating with Students Against the Occupation, who called on Copenhagen University to cut ties with Israel, including climate change programs. StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez condemned Thunberg, accusing her of prioritizing hatred for Israel over environmental activism despite Israel's efforts on climate action.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 248 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"She has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred," the organization said.

Thunberg, 21, was arrested on September 4 while demonstrating with Students Against the Occupation, who called on Copenhagen University to cut ties with Israel, including climate change programs. StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez condemned Thunberg, accusing her of prioritizing hatred for Israel over environmental activism despite Israel's efforts on climate action.

"Sadly, Greta's hatred of the world's only Jewish nation eclipses her love of the environment. ..."

Well would you look at that: they make no distinction between demanding the university cut ties with Israel, "hatred for Israel", "hatred of the world's only Jewish nation" and "vile Jew-hatred". So for them there's no gap between asking for pressure to stop Israel's active genocide and hating all Jews. It's so absurd and such a blatant attempt at political gaslighting they don't deserve to be taken seriously.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

It's a pretty standard technique of ethno-Fascists: the Zionists, just like the Nazis did, claim to represent an entire ethnicity and then cast any criticism of them and their ultra-racist Genocide as being criticism of that ethnicity they claim to represent.

And this is hardly the only propaganda technique Zionists and Nazis have in common: most of the tricks the Zionists use are pretty much Nazi shit with just the names of the ethnicities, places and nations replaced, down to how a lot of what the Zionists claim about Palestinians in Gaza being pretty much what the Nazis claimed about the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 142 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Olympics were cool but the mental gymnastics here are far more impressive

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 37 points 2 months ago

They'd have taken gold by just standing there and explaining their logic to the judges.

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 132 points 2 months ago

Someone should tell them that speaking out against war crimes and genocide isn't antisemitism

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 51 points 2 months ago

The true joke is that Palestinians are a semetic people too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The Gottingen school really fucked us, didn't they?

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Speaking out against Isreal is antisemitic...

But also: ThErE aRe ArAbS iN IsRaEl So ThEy ArEnT rACiSt!

Ok... So if Isreal isn't entirely a Jewish state then being critical of Isreal is NOT equal to being critical of Jews right? Right?

Oh of course it is! Logic doesn't apply here!

I hate this world...

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 105 points 2 months ago

accusing her of prioritizing hatred for Israel over environmental activism despite Israel’s efforts on climate action.

Israel's genocide campaign has been horrible for the environment 🙄

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 102 points 2 months ago

Greta just keeps getting cooler and cooler.

[-] Thann@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago

Nah, the planets just getting hotter

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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 95 points 2 months ago

"Crime is bad"

"Wow hate black people much"

"Uhhhhh wtf nobody mentioned black people but you dude"

"You're a racist who hates black people, you just said it yourself!"

That's that 2024-level dialogue we've all come to love.

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 83 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, because when I think "Nazi" I think "peaceful protester", not "nation state bombing civilians in occupied territory".

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 82 points 2 months ago

These antisemites are implying that all Jews support genocide. That’s pretty fucked up.

[-] galoisghost@aussie.zone 65 points 2 months ago

The more pro-Israel people call everything that doesn’t match their beliefs antisemitism, the less antisemitism means to everyone else

[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

Yep. Prior to last year if person X told me person Y was antisemitic, my opinion of person Y would have dropped.

Today? It's about a 33% chance for each of X, Y or both being pieces of shit.

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 months ago

Antisemitism is not being against a war perpetrated and perpetuated by a jewish nation.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 months ago

Anti-semitism? how is that possible, I hate Israel, the most violent Anti-semitic nation on earth.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Being against Israel and its Genocide is as much anti-semitism as being against the Nazis and their Genocide was anti-white.

[-] hellabryanstyle@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago

Is society ready to admit that Jews don't get a free pass to do whatever the fuck they want anymore clinging to the Holocaust as an excuse?

[-] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Its not even "Jews" most Jews are understandably opposed to genocide, its just israel.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

AIPAC and organisations like stopantisemitism have made it their mission in this world to ensure that there is no public distinction between Jewish people as a whole and the nation of Israel.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

"It's OK, I'm Jewish."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Do anything you want, all the time."

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 months ago

"antisemite of the week" why does this sound like something that came out of an edgy nazi forum, and not from a group against antisemitism?

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

"Zionist genocide whitewashing group StopAntisemitism has been named antisemite of the week by Everyone With a Goddamn Brain"

[-] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 27 points 2 months ago

The one thing that makes me most certain that criticism of israeli actions in gaza are warranted is how any form of discussion is labelled "vile hatred" immediately.
I know propaganda exists and i really hope some things get exaggerated or are made up, but no sane person or government would react like that to legitimate concern for civillians.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago

She must feel great having her good work recognized like that. 🫡

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[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All the Jewish people I know are emphatically against the genocide of Palestinians. So are they antisemitic or am I antisemitic for knowing them???

[-] superkret@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago

TIL all Semites are in Israel's government.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Israel maybe has Judaism as its state religion, but that doesn't make Israel Judaism. Does Israel really think people are that stupid?

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Does Israel really think people are that stupid?

Looking at their propaganda, yes. Yes they do. And their super PACs ensure that the politicians they've pocketed parrot the same lines they say.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I wonder how long until the woman I met who is actively in the process of converting to Judaism gets labeled a rabid antisemite for her radical stand of “loudly proclaiming that she and many other Jews oppose the genocide against Palestine”.

[-] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

Not all Jews are zionists. Not all zionists are Jews. All zionists are genocidal cunts.

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