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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
@grumble209 @fabio @palestine @moderation @Gargron @staff Here’s the thing: antisemitism is a very real thing and, sadly, there are people who hate Jewish people for no other reason than the fact that they’re Jewish.
What’s terrible about Israel and Zionists weaponising antisemitism – by equating it with being anti-genocide and anti-Zionism to stifle criticism of the genocide they are committing in Palestine – is that it dilutes the semantics of the word, understandably leading to the sort of sentiment you just expressed and making Jews everywhere less safe.
Israel’s willful conflation of Jewishness with Zionism and support of its policies and the ongoing genocide is also one of the most most antisemitic things I can think of. Imagine equating a people (Jews) with being pro-genocide. They go so far as to label Jewish people who oppose their genocide (including “Holocaust” survivors and relatives of the same – who they disdain for “having been weak”) as “the wrong kind of Jew” or even “antisemitic”.
Zionists are some of the most antisemitic people I know.