Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney

trk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Conflating all Jewish people with Israel is fucked and is also a key tactic of Israel.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t have to support terrorism to acknowledge what creates and fuels it.

    An increase in anti-jewish terrorism is expected after the last year of Israel’s genocide, and these specific events are likely a direct response to it; not random chance.

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    • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree with your comment entirely, so you may be misunderstanding the point I was making.

      I agree it’s not surprising there’s been a rise in anti-jewish racism, especially since the Israeli state consistently tries to muddy the waters and conflate itself with jewish people in general (which is fucked).

      The comment I was replying to (“Maybe if they stopped genociding people?”) appears to uncritically accept this conflation and the racist falsehood that the whole ethnic communities being targeted in these incidents are inherently connected or responsible for Israel’s genocide, and that needs to be called out.

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• Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Zionism is not Judaism.

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• eureka@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Zionists pretend to speak on behalf of all Jews, but never have [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism#Early_Jewish_a…] and certainly don’t now - all the Palestinian rallies I’ve seen have a notable contingent of anti-Zionist Jews protesting alongside them. For an extreme example, you can find plenty of cases of Orthodox Jews burning flags of the Zionist State even decades before this conflict.

  It’s important not to confuse the Zionist Regime with the Jewish peoples of the world, just as one doesn’t conflate neo-Nazis with all Europeans. Both the Zionist movement and anti-semites (esp. Nazis) intentionally try to push this false narrative for their own separatist goals, and it’s important we recognise and counter it.

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  • spidervl@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Zionists pretend to speak on behalf of all Jews, but never have

    For what it’s worth, here are two notable U.S.-based Jewish peace groups:

    www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

    www.ifnotnowmovement.org

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    • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, luckily there are also a few in Aus too, including en.wikipedia.org/…/Jewish_Council_of_Australia who have been important in providing a voice to mainstream media which isn’t just a Zionist mouthpiece.

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      • spidervl@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks, glad to hear you have a similar group over there. Here in the U.S., the two groups I had previously mentioned have been excoriated by the head of the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League:

        In November 2023, the Anti-Defamation League classified protest events led by groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow as “anti-Israel”, adding the protests to a database documenting rising antisemitism in the US. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt labelled the organizations “hate groups”.

        (Bold added for emphasis; he is apparently unclear on the concept of defamation.)

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• Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the people of sydney are genociding people? that’d be news to the people of sydney

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that officially ended in the 90’s.

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