• shiroininja@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Is it real antisemitism or just not supporting Israel?

    About when they start going on about “Zionists” Is where I draw the line and where it typically takes a turn.

    As a Jewish person, I find it healthy to criticize the Israeli government. Most young Israelis do. Their government has been steamrolled by a wannabe dictator that is corrupt as hell and his team of racist, backwards conservative orthodox buddies.

    They were just protesting in the streets weeks ago and now we’re expected to turn around and support the government? Nah. This doesn’t change anything.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Is it real antisemitism or just not supporting Israel?

      Nothing lemmy.world loves more than bagging on the *.ml instance, so I’m going to take a wild guess at the latter. If it was self-referential “Me looking at all the antisemitism on lemmy.world” it never would have received this much positive attention.

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      9 months ago

      I’m one of the Israelis who frequently attended the anti-government protest.

      I expect you not to support the Israeli government, but to support the Israeli people’s right to defend ourselves from terrorists.

      Regardless of whether Israel has a right wing or left wing government, we will not allow thousands of us to be massacred.

      We won’t stand by and twiddling our thumbs waiting for the next Hamas attack to kill more of us without responding with our full force.

      None of this contradicts the fight to end the occupation. You can be anti-Hamas and anti-occupation at the same time.

      Nuance is possible!

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        9 months ago

        Then how about your government stop killing and abusing Palestinians. It’s almost as if decades of apartheid oppression, murder, and human rights abuses have consequences

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            9 months ago

            Awh that’s great! They’ve attended anti government protests. I guess we can ignore the call for a heavy handed ruthless response in retaliation in that same comment or the implicit support of their government’s ongoing role in the bombing and murder of civilians. Also, nowhere did I see them specifically decrying their government over the Gaza response, only in response to “corruption”