Comment on Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m really, really tired of immediately denouncing Israel half the time people find out I’m Jewish. I’m not a fucking Israeli.

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  • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Israeli government is really happy to rope you and all other Jewish people outside of Israel along though. And too many unfortunately play that role happily.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And too many unfortunately play that role happily.

      See? This is what I mean. If I just announced that I was Jewish to someone like you, you’d make me justify it by denouncing Israel. I shouldn’t have to do that. It should not be assumed that just because I’m a Jew, I support Israel. Frankly, that’s a form of racism.

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      • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re saying you should blame Israel for that, not random people trying to find out who’s who

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      • ytg@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The Israeli government doesn’t even represent all Israelis, let alone all Jews. Does represent the vast majority unfortunately

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      • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I dont mean you personally, but organizations that claim to represent the jewish people in various countries. For instance the American Jewish Committee that claims Jews critisizing Israel would be antisemites and tries to have the UN comittees dissolved that adress the human rights situation in Palestine. Or a bit larger but slightly more moderate the World Jewish Congress, that wants “to enhance solidarity among Jewish communities throughout the world and, recognizing the centrality of the State of Israel to contemporary Jewish identity, to strengthen the bonds of Jewish communities and Jews in the Diaspora with Israel”

        These organizations claim to represent Jewish people around the world and that they would be in favor of Israel and support Israel, especially in face of criticism.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jewish_Committee en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jewish_Congress

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The issue is that both antiseminites and Zionists do want to to mean the same thing. Same with being Israeli doesn’t mean your Jewish or a Zionist

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nah, it a brilliant idea if you want to deflect criticism of Israel’s right-wing government. What’s stupid is believing it.

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  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, from that perspective is genius. But any moron that buys into it should be ridiculed

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same thing with equating abortions to baby murder. Great branding, horrible belief.

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• fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s kinda the same tactic Russia uses.

  • Antisemitism = anti-Israel
  • Nazism = anti-Russia

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