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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are Hamas fighters, future Hamas fighters, potential Hamas fighters and Hamas sympathizers. All belong to Hamas. There might be other categories as well.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Saw someone else post this on lemmy:

WCK surely stands for World Central KHAMAS.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So eventually Israel will genocide everyone else and itself?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Research friendly fire incidents and the Hannibal directive in the IDF. No one kills Jews more efficiently than Israel.

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

I can think of one group of people who did, but as for killing Israelis, no one does it better than Israel for sure.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I'm talking current times, not historically.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fascism has to create new enemies to remain relevant.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

They definitely have nukes, so it's on the table.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Every ~~w~~hole in the ground is a Hamas Tunnel, every Palestinian is Hamas, every person critical of Israel is pro-Hamas.

You can see it everywhere, not just Israeli Propaganda (and even that from its unwavering supporters like Germany and the Biden Administration) but even here posts accusing somebody critical of Israel of being pro-Hamas are common.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Ooh, be careful with those views. Someone who doesn't understand what antisemitism is might call you an antisemite.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Subtle work there with the nose.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Both the press and the soldier have quite a large nose so that doesn't seem to imply much.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As an artist myself, nothing is ever an accident. There wasn't any need for it to tell the story. Using bigotry to describe genocide is a misstep.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You immediately jumping to it being bigotry is the very thing Israel is doing right now claiming all criticism is bigotry. They both have stupid looking noses since its a sketched cartoon. Stop jumping to conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah but the artist is called Nasser. Sounds pretty antisemitic to me. I met a guy called Nasser once, guess what his surname was? That's right, Hussein. What do you think he thought about Jews? I've no idea, he seemed like a decent guy though, so probably nothing awful. I'm assuming this Nasser Junior must be his son? He had a big nose too, come to think of it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I replied to the first commenter with this but the soldier's nose is not the antisemitic stereotype. It "should" (if you're trying to be racist) be hooked and pointing downward

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_nose

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Come on, that's just a cartoon nose. It's not even close to the racist stereotype of Jewish noses.

The Jewish nose, or the Jew's nose, is an antisemitic ethnic stereotype referring to a hooked nose with a convex nasal bridge and a downward turn of the tip of the nose

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_nose

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Uhhh it's a pretty huge difference. Nobody says Jews have long pointy noses like that.

Go look at his other comics. You'll find he's drawn noses way more similar to the stereotype on brown people speaking arabic

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you happen to notice the detached eye floating in mid air?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Yet another hurtful Jewish stereotype! /s

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Really? We’ve basically descended to antisemitism now?

I 100% think the use of force in Gaza is genocide and a war crime, but this is a cartoon I’d expect from the Right. We’re better than that.

Looking forward to the downvotes for my ground shattering opinion that racial generalizations never have a place in political commentary.

EDIT: I’ve never been happier in my life to be downvoted. Keep them coming. I love how I even said in my initial comment that I do not support Israel and think they’re committing genocide (which is the general Lemmy opinion), but I’m still getting toasted. I would say the same thing about a WWII cartoon that made racial generalizations about Asians, or about the imperialist cartoons of the late 1800s that made generalizations about any number of a group of other people.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Criticizing Israel's government is not antisemitism.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the big nose shit is a critic of said government and not antisemitism at its finest in what way exactly?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a cartoon. Big noses are extremely common. There's a specific way that a stereotypical "Jewish nose" looks, and this isn't it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Also, everyone has a big nose, not just the IDF soldier.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The other guy also has a big nose. It's clearly stylistic. You're reaching to be offended

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

What's worse though?! Comic artist giving people big noses or an army indiscriminately killing children and press then sweeping them both under the rug as terrorism?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Israel are not the Jewish people. You've been propagandized to. I'm sorry and fuck off.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (14 children)

No-one else is going to question the use of "khamas"? Really?

Hamas is 5 letters long, it's not like it would have been difficult to get the spelling right.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's apparently a play on words. "Khamas" in Hebrew means "violence".

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