The Western world yet again fails to live up to its moral pedestal

    • zerfuffle
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      1 year ago

      That’s not the distinction you should be making.

      It’s sad that any bad sentiment towards the Zionist regime is getting conflated with antisemitism. You don’t have to hate Jewish people to hate an apartheid state dead-set on ethnic cleansing and genocide.

      Similarly, you don’t have to like how Hamas operates to sympathize with their goal of overthrowing said apartheid state.

    • Unaware7013@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      So sad that any good sentiment towards Palestine not full-throatedly pro-Israel is instantly taken to be anti-israel.

      FTFY. For as long as I can remember, Israel has been doing shitty things and mischaracterizing any criticism as antisemitism.

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          1 year ago

          Yep, that’s exactly the dumb, bullshit claims about antisemitism I was talking about. I can’t take any claims of antisemitism seriously when it’s really just anti-zionism or basic criticism of the authoritarian nature of Israel or just their inhumane treatment of the legal citizens so illegal settlers can steal their land.

          I refuse to accept basic criticism of Israel as antisemitism, because that gives them an intellectually lazy rhetorical dodge to justify committing acts that their forebearers had once claimed ‘never again’.

    • PowerCrazy
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      1 year ago

      Being anti-israel is the only moral position.