Committing genocide tends to turn the public against you.
And somehow that comment is antisemitic. Because the Nazis are Jewish now. I just want people to stop killing other people!
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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I just want people to stop killing other people!
hey, that's antisemitic! think of all the profits weapons companies could make, you're hurting them. what about their freedom?
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I mean, there wasn't an incredibly well documented, active genocide happening 8 years ago.
That has a lot of sway on public opinion.
There was, in Palestine. In 2014, Israel murdered like 1,400 Palestinians. This is nowhere near new for Israel, it is SOP for 70 years. The difference is that social media platforms gave us a direct view that corporate media actively chooses to not show us, as you pointed to.
Reporting almost 60,000 killed in this current war. That’s over 40x as many. Not downplaying the 1,400 but let’s not pretend this isn’t a great escalation compared to the atrocities of the past
And likely much higher than that
I became aware in the last 2-3 years of the nineties, but I was always drawn to places that discussed these things.
It was an open air prison poised for a genocide then. I’m glad people are realizing that the Israeli is as evil as anything and they shield it with a blanket of “antisemitism” to shut everyone up. That old chestnut no longer is working.
It's been ongoing and documented for decades.
The Israel's were always very cruel to the Palestinians but you'd never know it due to the lack of media coverage
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I would say that the most telling thing is that there hasn't been a similar shift among Republicsns.
Anyone who can look at what Israel has done and is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza, and increasingly in the West Bank, without being filled with horror, revulsion and pity is a monster.
Fox News simply isn't covering the genocide. There's your explanation.
Republicans are shitty people full stop.
Also look at what percentage of voters switched parties.
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So all of a sudden
Maybe something happened that caused the shift? Hmm, what could it be?
Don't say it or you're an anti-semite. Shocking that opposing the murdering and starving of people is antisemitic.
Was right on the tip of my tongue, but can't quite come up with it. Something about a gen or side? Something like that I think.
genside? generation? genetics? idk
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What I think is most unbelievable is that the Israelis actually think people are buying their BS excuses. They really need to take lessons from Trump who apparently can make millions believe the most ridiculous lies.
Israelis don't really care as long as people keep voting for the two parties which are in their pocket.
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Isn't that what Netanyahu has being doing all along?
I was kind of on Iseral's side in the beginning. 1200 dead for no reason?
Then I found out Iseral started murdering peaceful prostestors before Hamas came over. Fuck Iseral and their bullshit.
Even Hamas tried peaceful protests in 2017 and Israel murdered them.
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Israel has a long and fucked up history. They're like a little ADHD fucker in the playground with the huge older brother and a father as the head school administrator. No one dare punch the little fucker in the face.
Whenever someone claims they are "gods people", you're going to have a bad time.
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Yes, committing active and rapid genocide out in the open will do that
I doubt Israel and Palestine had that much of an effect on the New York city mayoral race. Just because this guy is Muslim they are making all these crazy assumptions. Frankly it seems a little racist at this point and super embarrassing to watch
Asking someone running for mayor about international politics seems like a real "sir, this is a Wendy's" moment.
Agreed. I think Mamdani won the primary on more of a "he is not a sex pest" vibe than his views on international politics.
At least that's the impression I got based on my wife's conversations with her friends.
I voted for him too, but more because he seems like he actually wants to try to make people's lives better. I don't think he will be able to accomplish most of what he is promising, but I do think he is going to at least /try/ to improve things.
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I hate you whoever came up with saying points instead of percentage.
It's because describing a 56 percentage point increase as 56 percent increase implies a totally different result. A 56 percentage point increase on 10% is 66%. A 56 percent increase on 10% is 15.6%.
Holy shit
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Me 3 years ago, somewhat ignorant: “I’m okay with sending bombs to Israel.”
Me, today: “I’m okay with ‘sending’ bombs to Israel.”
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Yeah, boy, wair for it: there're also a million less palestinians to sympathise with than there were 8 years ago. I think something is going on down there. Something very anti-semitic.
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Younger democrats...18-49....the fuck. Doing some heavy lifting with that younger phrase calling 40-50 younger 😂
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It's probably the escalation of the genocide. If Israel were to stop committing genocide and move to reconcile and take actions to prevent it in thr future I'm pretty sure most of us would be open to reevaluating our position. Plenty of us like the modern Germany after all.
A non-genocidal apartheid state is still an apartheid state.
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What's that bullshit about Mamdani facing criticism about not being outspoken enough against antisemitism?
Same spin on all people calling for an end of war since Netanyahu decided that being against the genocide was antisemitic.
Same shit when any individual with an even remote arabian origin needs time and again to formally condemn islamist terrorist attacks, otherwise they're instantly labeled terrorist supporters or some shit.
So be prepared to read a lot about "ambiguous position" on antisemitism because no matter what he says or does, they need to slap that label on him.
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Thank you for posting this.
The people are rousing and that at least is consoling in the midst of this ongoing genocide by the state of Israel.
Everyone in NYC has an opinion about the Middle East, but Mamdani got elected because he said he will only work for the 5 boros. His focus is correctly on NYC, and that’s what he campaigned on. At the end of the day that conflict is half a world away; and we’ve got shit here we have for fix.
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“Andrew Cuomo, during the primary, attacked Mamdani as being insufficiently pro-Israel.
The most expensive primaries in US history were in 2024 where zionist supremacists/AIPAC funded DNC opponents to those insufficiently submissive to zionist first rule over America. The only successful attack campaigns were those that never mentioned Israel supremacy as an issue. Only other issues.
The Green party can win with 0 money by saying all Israel first loyalty oaths by politicians invalidate their citizenship and right to office. The DNC simply doesn't want to win. Like Chuck Schumer admission, the DNC exists to gaslight the left into being pro Israel. Fundraising is always nice, but winning is not the most pro Israel result.
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