Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."

• mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not saying stop protesting Israel. I’m saying don’t use the slogan that’s used by Antisemites, if you don’t want to be confused with them.
  What’s wrong with shouting “Free Palestine, End The Occupation” instead?

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  • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because our opponents will always be nibbling at what we can’t and cannot say and we should resist and reject their bad-faith criticism. Our opponents are trying to paint us as antisemites. Your honest attempt at distancing ourselves from antisemitic groups has exactly the opposite effect: It legitimizes their criticism where it was never in good faith to begin with

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m honestly just confused why people who aren’t antisemites would insist on using the first part, alone.
      And omit the second part “Palestine must be free”, thereby creating the ambiguity of what they mean in the first place.

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      • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why concede even that ground, though?

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you believe the same for the “anti-immigration” protests too, or were you calling everyone attending them racist and/or Nazis?

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t the left saying that if you let one Nazi into a bar you now have a Nazi bar? Same applies here. There are many anti-Semites in these protests chanting this saying, therefore everyone there is an anti-Semite.

  This isn’t me making the rules, it’s just applying the rules the left set and try to force on everyone.

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