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And he is correct because he actually spent time learning about it.
As someone living in Germany, I can confidently tell you:
Nah.
A majority of leftists think antisemitism begins when with „gas the Jews“.
So for you antisemitism starts with "jews are not allowed to genocide arabs", huh?
Nope.
Lol hasbara back at it
Is this a direct reference to you?
Quite a few haven't understood it, despite having learned about it
That‘s a widespread opinion, also among the left. Leftists typically consider themselves immune from antisemitism because they aren’t Nazis and the good guys. They are ignorant about the difference between antisemitism and racism.
They will of course remember Auschwitz performatively, and invoke it as a political tool whenever convenient.
People Love Dead Jews because they don’t speak up, aren’t annoying, can be used to virtue signal, and as political tool.
A great quote by Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex fits here as.
Antisemitism is when Jews are attacked for being Jews.
It can happen and happens outside of the holocaust and should be taken seriously.
There is the misunderstanding you said and also some Germans famously know as anti-Deutsche or antigermans that are of the opinion that any criticism of the actions of the Israeli government is antisemitism because it is a Jewish ethnostate. They also sometimes/often think that the Germans are antisemitic by their existence and bloodline
See, just as I said. You draw the line at attacks. Would you define racism as being attacks against racialized people? Antisemitism starts with the rumor about the Jews. That’s what legitimizes the marginalization and violence.
This is the difference how leftists typically deal with accusations of bigotry:
Black person: „That’s racist!“
Leftist: „Of course your lived experience matters!“
Jewish person: „That’s antisemitic!“
Leftist: „ANTIZIONISM ISNT ANTISEMITISM! SHUT UP ZIONAZI! DEATH TO ISRAHELL!“
That’s often repeated but incorrect. Criticism is fine. Israelis, Zionists, and antigermans criticize Israel all the time.
It crosses the line when demanding Israel‘s violent destruction and with it the death of millions of Jews for example.
Holding Israel to a different standard than all other countries can be an expression of antisemitism as well. Denying only the Jewish people the right to self determination is common for example.
Repeating antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes doesn’t stop being antisemitic, if the word Jews are swapped for Zionists. That’s what neo-Nazis have been doing for decades. Today the anti Israel left uncritically uses the exact same phrases and terms they have established.
Holocaust inversion has also become disturbingly widespread.
If I was you, I would have shut up a long time ago. You spread anti-German BS everywhere and take away any credibility to rational positions against antisemitism. You spread pro-Israel apologia and sometimes even non-Israel related right wing crap on Feddit.
You make the rest of us look bad when you try to call out antisemitic positions among antizionists and you never have any real criticism of Israel to offer.
The war in Gaza should end. The current government is bonkers. What‘s happening in the West Bank is unacceptable. I could go on for a long time.
Few people are interested in learning about or discussing the details of what’s happening or discuss actual policies. Fueling your hate of Israel as the ultimate evil is far easier and more popular.
The main thing I have issue with is people wanting to destroy Israel. Antizionism wants to destroy Israel. That sentiment is what lead to October 7. Hamas tried to destroy Israel with absolutely disastrous results.
Two states, coexistence, peace are the way to achieve a better life for Palestinians. The desire to destroy Israel only leads to suffering and death. As history has proven over and over.
Self styled Pro Palestinians love moral grand standing, but don’t give a shit about actually improving the lives of Palestinians.
I am also against genociding Israelis, however a lot of the stuff you post tends to be very pro-Israel.
Also it is typical that I get called an antizionist by anti-Germans but a zionist by antizionists when I am in fact a non-Zionist and it triggers people that I am not explicitly pro- or anti-Israel.
I however recommend that you properly read about the Nakba. Both sides were bad, however groups like Betar did really, really bad shit.
The land should be both for ethnic Jews and Arabs and not for only one ethnicity.
There‘s no lack of anti Israel posts on Lemmy. It’s filled with anti Israel hatred.
I try to show people that they might not know the full story.
Yes, this conflict is extremely polarized and a lot of it hinges on purity tests. The meaning of words like Zionist and genocide have strayed from their original definitions. People prefer to endulge in outrage and hate.
I have read several books on the Nakba. It was terrible, but not worse than other wars. The way it’s often portrayed is one-sided and insincere. Righteous victims is the best book on the topic, I think.
The Zionists weren’t acting in a vacuum, but were threatened by enemies from all sides that had promised to obliterate them. They were fighting for survival.
A civil war had been going on since at least 1947 with the Haganah staying mostly on the defensive.
The diplomatic efforts like the UN partition plan were rejected by the Arabs but accepted by the Zionists. The local Palestinians were sacrificed by the desire for glory and territorial ambitions of the neighboring countries.
Portraying the Nakba as a uniquely horrible event is insincere. The population transfers between Greece and Turkey, India and Pakistan, and the millions forcibly displaced all over Europe happened around the same time.
Agreed. The most viable path towards this is two states, ideally each with a minority ethnicity from the other side. One state or a union might be possible some future day. Security for all people is the prerequisite for peaceful cooperation and coexistence.
20% of Israeli citizens are not Jews, but mostly local Arabs. Arabs are further split in Bedouins, Druze, Christians, Sunni. There are also other long time minorities like Armenians and Samaritans. Especially the Druze are very well integrated into Israeli society.
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas in Gaza doesn’t allow any Jews as citizens, including those who had lived there before 1948. De facto the West Bank has a considerable Jewish minority already in the settlements.
Palestinians can’t win by force of arms. They have tried many times and they lost every time. The method of appealing to the international community to pressure Israel has yielded modest results, mainly in damaging Israel‘s image. It’s a delusion to believe the UN will give Palestinians a state one day. There was a chance in 1947, but they didn’t take it.
The approach that’s been neglected is direct cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis from the ground up. Sadly that’s commonly opposed as normalization and contrary to BDS. Billions of dollars were offered to invest in industrial parks where Israelis and Palestinians would work together. This was rejected as normalization. Grassroots Israeli-Palestinian peace groups are severely hindered because the Palestinians have to do it in secret and hide their identity.
The failure to accept one of the peace deals offered, the second intifada, repeated wars in Gaza, and finally the Al Aqsa Flood on October 7th have convinced a majority of Israelis that peace isn’t possible.
Palestinians don’t need to convince the UN and world opinion of their cause. They need to convince the Israeli voters.
You told me to read a book, let me also recommend one to you to broaden your horizon: The War of Return by Einat Wilf.
The Pro Palestinian movement has a huge blindspot. It never discusses Palestinians in a way unrelated to Israel. The well-being of Palestinians living outside Palestine is ignored. Internal Palestinian politics are never discussed beyond accusing the PA of corruption and collaboration.
I meant verbal attacks as well, any prejudice based on their Jewishness is also antisemitism.
If antizionism is antisemitism depends completely on the argument at hand.
If someone says that Zionists want control over the whole world and the money that is antisemitic.
If someone rightfully condemns the genocide and attacks done by the IDF or the state of Israel that isn't antisemitism.
The violent expansion of the state Israel is just as bad as any other country doing the same. No country has the right to genocide or violently take or colonize another region
Idk if you are commenting in bad faith but there’s a long history in the west (I can only speak to America specifically) of falsely using antisemitism as a shield for any criticism of Jewish culture or Israel’ actions
So your analogy of people accepting a black person saying something is racist but not accepting the same statement from a Jew is totally glossing over the actual history of what’s gone on in the west at the hands of ecoterrorist orgs like the ADL using this as an excuse to manipulate control and shape the narrative surrounding modern Israel
The reason people in 2026 don’t really just bend the knee the instant the word “antisemitism” is used is because the word has been so overused that it lost all sense of meaning colloquially (similar to how liberals have used the term “Nazi” so often that people are proudly blasting HH by Ye and find it funny)
Either you don’t know the history of Jews in America or you do know and you are doing exactly what I’m describing which is falsely using antisemitism as a shield to protect Israel or Jews from valid criticism