• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I think most people can separate Jewish people from genocide from the country of Israel.

    The only people confusing the issue want to make it an issue. Quashing pro-Palestine protests claiming they’re anti-Semitic when they’re not. Questioning the country of Israel’s actions is anti-Semitic when it’s not.

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      6 months ago

      I feel like you are overestimating most people

      Attacking Jewish people, vandalizing stores because they owners are Jewish. And calling to eradicate Israel from existence are antisemitic

      The majority of hate crimes near me target Jewish people. I don’t believe that shooting at the Jewish school the other day was hate motivated because it happened in the middle of the night, I think someone just missed and hit the school. So if numbers include that then it’s obviously misleading

      Pretending people calling it out are only the people in your 2nd paragraph would put you in the “fake progressive” group from the OP

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        6 months ago

        You’re conflating hate crimes with the political stances people are taking in reference to Israel’s actions in Gaza.

        We are not talking about the same thing.

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          6 months ago

          You are being dismissive of people who are against antisemitism because “they couldn’t possibly be talking about actual antisemitism”

          That seems to just be digging a deeper hole for yourself

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            6 months ago

            No, he’s saying that criticism of Israel is not anti-semitic. In fact, I would argue that Israel’s actions and attitude are probably the main driving cause of anti-Semitism currently. They are the ones who insist that they represent all Jewish people.

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              6 months ago

              So you’re saying their comments are entirely irrelevant to the conversation and come from a point of ignorance rather than an attempt to distract and discredit

              I initially thought that as well, that’s why I corrected it until they decided to double down on the take