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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

why is your response to holocaust denialism to shout zionist?

sus fash

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yet the person probably complains about Jews labeling any criticism of Israel as being antisemitism.

By the way, perhaps a topic for another day but Zionism is merely the opinion that Jews deserve their own ethno state in the Levant (surrounded by Muslim ethno states).

By using the word as a slur betrays the ProPal antisemitism which has been hush hush amongst the global Left until now.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Funnily enough neo-nazis (well before this conflict) have always used zionist as a dog whistle to mean jew

it doesn't surprise me to see progressives latching onto antisemitism

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

It is I think partially attributable to the now debunked Protocol of the Elders of Zion which asserted that Jews secretly control the world. My housemate actually stated "All Jews are rich though, aren't they" 🤦‍♂️

There is also the (understandable IMO) White Westerner guilt. The more productive way to alleviate the guilt is not to always unquestionably take on board every complaint of brown people, but do things like Aaron Swartz did: he kind-of died trying to share a library of academic papers with the entire world for free (although he was Jewish).

I see there are a lot of Anarchists in this community and none of us support the expansion of settlements in the West Bank. That is good but I wish there was more outright condemnation here and in the news in general. How are Gazans meant to trust the same won't happen to them soon especially under Trump's oversight? Instead there is a firehose of Gaza hyperbole distracting from this sticking point.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

user seems to have deleted their account of a year or two old. very bizarre, guess they had a moment of realisation that they were antisemitic afterall