I guess a lot of people lost sight of the ball.
Antisemitism — or any bigotry — is bad. We dare not tolerate it because it can lead to persecution and genocide.
Somewhere along the way people took that to mean that any criticism of the actions of the Israeli government, including accusations of genocide, was anti-semitism and had to be quashed.
And yes, Hamas leadership is also awful, bigoted, and wanting to genocide, just like the Israeli government.
But the everyday Gaza inhabitant doesn’t deserve to be killed. Nor does the everyday rest-of-Israel inhabitant deserve to be killed.
what if this criticism comes from fake news, half-truths, bigotry, or general incitement? at what point do u say free speech has its limits?
You think the UN produces fake news, half truths and bigotry?
Aljazeera does, and they seem to get posted on here a lot for some reason.
Yes, the UN in Gaza has been compromised for years.
I definitely don’t think being pro Palestinian warrants losing your job and all of that. Just as being pro Israel should not warrant it. But there’s a limit. Are you being pro Palestine or are you screaming death to the jews. There’s a big difference. Seems people get caught up in the heat of this extremely contentious issue and forget that neither side in this decades old conflict is without sin. People become extreme in their beliefs and go overboard. If you fuck around like that, well, you get what you deserve.
When the headline is about people being pro-Palestine, why do you immediately jump to the assumption that the people in question are being antisemitic?
You sound like the kind of person who’s causing people to be fired for opposing genocide.
I mean thanks for proving my point. It’s just such an insanity inducing topic that no one can have a conversation about it.
I think it’s the grey area where there is no clear line where the problem is. In the article there are cases where a line was considered crossed for using words like “genocide” to describe what Israel is doing and the much maligned “from the river to the sea” slogan (what people seem to forget is that it is a rhetorical inversion of the first article in Likud’s foundational Manifesto).
