Conflating Jews in Israel with Zionists.

Unfortunately, he does it in this very post.

When people talk about “jews” or “israelis” generally as perpetuating the murder of children, they are engaging in the blood libel trope.

Those two statements (with “jews” vs with “israelis”) are in no way the same. The first is antisemitism, the second is objective fact and the policy of the Israeli state. To conflate the two is antisemitic, and also plays into Israeli propaganda that they are the representatives of Jews and Judaism.

This is just conflating Israeli and Jew and my problem with it is not tone-policing, but rather that it itself falls into an antisemitic conflation of the two, and importantly portrays the IDF as outside of Likud and the US. They are going at great lengths to distance Israelis and even the literal members of the Israeli death squads from the violence they represent and commit. That is actually offensive and gross.

GOOD post. OP makes some good points, but they could have been made without settler apologia, IDF apologia, and (ironically, and clearly unintentionally) antisemitism. Saying that it’s blood libel to say “Israelis are murdering Palestinians” is absolutely ridiculous, and as you said implies that “Jews” = “Israelis” and criticisms of Israel are antisemitic.

As a note, even if you were to say “Jews”, it wouldn’t be blood libel. Absolutely antisemitic, but not blood libel. Blood libel is specifically about accusing Jews of using the blood of children in rituals. You can expand that definition reasonably to include a lot of accusations about using the blood of children, but it’s clearly not applicable here. It’s a specific antisemitic trope with a specific meaning and history, and it’s probably counterproductive to stick the label on every antisemitic statement involving accusations of violence.

“Israel is doing what the unions want.”

Yep that sounds like white western thinking to me!

Wrong, westerners would not say that native people of the places they colonize would go to heaven.

Did we lose Tastysnack? All posts and comments deleted.

I’m back. :sicko-yes: I got too busy in life and stopped posting for months.

Mfer was doing documentation for the F-35 😂

Objectively doing good for the world.

Don’t sell Alice short, she also has garbage takes.

WTYP literally can’t stop losing. How hard is it to vet your guests? Except they probably agree with this. :yea:

targeted at the wrong people

spec ops idiots thinking this was going to be like that one time they blew up a wedding in Afghanistan

Edit: also all the fascist Redditors hoping to help out their Azov heroes. The only ones in the bunch worth feeling bad for even a bit are the handful of idiots taken for a ride by the propaganda storm, and even then, they signed up for war.

Ally with the Slavs against the commies

“Hey Stepan, I know I called you and your people subhuman, but c’mon man… there’s communists and they’re bad…so…”

This is actually the least ridiculous part because Eastern European fascists constantly go for this reasoning lmao. :wonder-who-thats-for:

“I call it a government-steered economy.”

lmao westoids too scared to say DoTP

or they could just call it SWCC

Not sure if this is intended to start an SwCC struggle session… I’ll take the :bait: and say that America and China have very different material and historical contexts and so I don’t think comparing them in this way is likely to lead anywhere useful.

Western historians and just making shit up - name a better pair.