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[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Strange how they never managed this back when all the neo-nazis was marching for Trump back in 2016...

This is pretty much the only thing "peaceful protest" will ever get you.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Strange how they never managed this back when all the neo-nazis was marching for Trump back in 2016…

I might note that both Israel and the neo-nazis support the republicans almost exclusively over democrats. I'm sure there's no connection there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Israelis in Israel are in overwhelming support for the genocide in Gaza and the continued settler terrorism against the Palestinians in the Westbank.

Also they kept voting Netanyahu in. The voting aged and eligible Israelis need to take responsibility, because they have responsibility for their government and the actions of their government and their military. Also every non Likud government since the murder of Yitzak Rabin has continued the settler terrorism in the Westbank.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Republicans are often armed when they’re protesting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Right-wingers don't protest - they congregate to terrorize.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And have the police on their side anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But right wing protestors chanting "Jews will not replace us!"? That, apparently, is fine.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To be fair, those protestors are in that picture too, they're the ones wearing armor

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's a vile accuracy!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to my boss yes because they got a permit. I try argue we shouldn't allow nazi to get fucking permit to protest he disagrees. It's fucking serial.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's fucking ~~serial~~ cereal

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No, you see, it's only antisemitism when you oppose genocide.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US is more concerned about antisemitism on college campuses than being complicit in the 670,000+ individuals starving in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By US I assume you mean the media, powerful business leaders and politicians behind the scenes that are making the decision to release police on what is clearly a peaceful protest. Because as a person who is American and against what is happening to Palestinians right now, this is not condoned by many folks over here. It is the 1% with the loudest voices that are making this a persistent problem for protests.

Look up who runs the police for the city shown and make the local politicians scared of public backlash. They do this because no one knows who they are and so they will not be held responsible.

Accountability wilts fascism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I can add my voice to this. The very topic we're all commenting on here supports this. The are protests and millions of dissenting voices to the disgusting atrocities taking place against the Palestinian people.

This isn't new, either. Countless Americans have opposed Israel for many, many years. They've been openly killing civilians for a very long time now.

It needs to stop, but the United States government is in an open state of distress right now. We're fighting over here to keep an actual tyrant from gaining power, and unilaterally destabilizing the entire world. Trump has threatened to pull us out of NATO, abandon support for Ukraine, and send even more aid to Israel. He's also a big reason Iran as a country is pissed off, since he pulled us out of the Iran Nuclear deal.

There are layers of bullshit and politics to navigate, and without money and agency most of us are struggling just to pay our rent, and buy groceries.

Meanwhile, we get people all the time conflating the US government with the US people. They are not the same thing. We are in many ways captives of our society. Those not from the US: look into what happens when we come down with a severe illness. Spoiler: we can easily lose fucking everything.

Things aren't good, everyone. Things aren't good. We can fix them, but holy shit is it not a good time for the world.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And yet you see comment after comment after comment and post after post after post here, telling you that opposing Bidens and the Democrats involvement with the genocide and violent supression of protests, would be shilling for Trump.

From an external perspective most of the US are either in support or indifferent to murdering women and children, torturing and abusing people, as long as it is not them.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I remember after a student at my college was run over and killed by an Israeli bulldozer for protesting on behalf of Palestinians the zionist backlash on campus for talking about it was immense and even got the school newspaper shut down for a while for, you guessed it: antisemitism.

*edit: I should add this was nearly 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet when an Israeli student threatened to "krav maga" me "into next week" for simply pointing out I was Palestinian while she was on some rant about how palestinians are all terrorists, that's just free speech and we need to think about a slippery slope into tyranny if we do anything about it less permissive than asking nicely for an apology.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that's just free speech and we need to think about a slippery slope into tyranny if we do anything about it less permissive than asking nicely for an apology.

That's terrible. Was it said by the same authority that did this?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Hasbara is on overtime with their sophisticated and useful job of calling everyone anti-Semite for calling out genocide on Palestinians!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you think that that what “antisemitism” complains are about, then you are clearly in some kind of distorted reality.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

I haven’t seen antisemitic comments anywhere, but maybe they just get deleted.

Unless you think being anti-Israel is antisemitic? But if that were so, being anti-Russia would be anti-christian and being anti-Saudi would be Islamophobic, etc. I don’t think so. Some nation states are horrible and the only logical response is to be “against them” in their current configuration. (For example, since only 8% of the world’s countries are full democracies, you can assume I’m against the others.) If Saudi or Israel changed their ways, then I would be “for them” whatever that means. Keep in mind, countries are made up nonsense anyway, so we can only criticize their organization and administration.

Lastly, religion is a hideous evil. Perhaps this accurate observation itself is considered somehow antisemitic. Not sure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly enough, the Palestinian people are actually a semitic race. So I'd argue the most antisemitic people on earth are the Israelis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

No arguing there, Israel is a Nazi State wearing a Jewish cap.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's exactly what it's about. Criticism of Israel is included in the official definition of Anti-Semitism in many countries and organizations.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Which leads to the crazy situation of jews for peace being called antisemitic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don’t have much respect for “official definitions”

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the "antisemitism" complains are because of antizionism, and stupid people regularly conflate antizionism (criticism of Israel) with antisemitism (attacking jewish people or judaism.

Speaking of stupid people, Israel and the right are going hard to the paint to make this very same conflation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What the fuck man. Is this a real photograph?

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