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More than 200 Jewish anti-Israel protesters arrested after storming New York Stock Exchange (nypost.com)

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At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said.

Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows.

A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal their anti-Israel attire and thwart any attempt to stop them ahead of time.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago

Good for them and fuck the New York Post.

You can join JFVP for as little as $18 a year.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/joinjvp/

[-] small44@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Fake democracy

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 day ago

I prefer the term managed democracy.

[-] shuzuko@midwest.social 13 points 21 hours ago

Ah yes, managed democracy! Every citizen of Super America enjoys the freedom to make the right choice.

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[+] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml -40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fucking antisemites smh my head

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago

Can I say as a JVFP member that this sort of sarcasm is really not helpful to us? Even when it's sarcastic, it still plays into the idea that if you're Jewish you support/should support Israel.

One of the things we're trying to do is work against that stereotype to show that wanting to end genocide has nothing to do with one's ethnicity.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it still plays into the idea that if you're Jewish you support/should support Israel.

Even if my intent is that I'm explicitly mocking that idea for being bullshit?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

Yes. It should not be brought up at all. There are plenty of other ways to respond to this action.

As an example in a similar situation, I'm hoping you wouldn't say of a similarly protesting Palestinian group that you guess they're all terrorists. Even in sarcasm.

It's not productive. It doesn't convince any actual person who would say that in earnest that they're wrong. What they'll do, if anything, is say "yes, but seriously."

On top of that, Israel wants people to think Jew = Israeli. Just putting that grain of thought in people's heads can result in bad things over time.

So there are better responses. Even if you want to express this specific sentiment in a sardonic way. "Watch Israel call this antisemitism" would be one way to go.

I hope that makes sense.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's fair. I think the example doesn't fully fix it though. I'll come up with something that might even be considered funny (by someone, I'm sure) eventually

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

guess this one needed the /s homie. Oh well i gotchoo

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

Oh I just assumed it was because of the "smh my head" part.

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