• GnastyGnuts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    What about “fuck israel”, or “death to israel”, or “fuck zionism”, or “I hope every zionist personally dies because I hate them”?

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    11 months ago

    In November 2023, the Anti-Defamation League classified anti-war protest events led by Jewish groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow as “anti-Israel”, adding the protests to a database documenting rising antisemitism in the US.

    ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt labelled the Jewish organizations “hate groups” and equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

    This led to criticism of ADL, including from its own staff, one of whom quit in protest, stating: “Those were Jewish people who we [as the ADL] were defaming, so that felt extremely, extremely confusing, and frustrating to me. And it makes it harder to talk about that when any criticism of Israel, or anyone who criticizes Israel, just becomes a terrorist.”

    Source (I broke up the text wall to make it more readable.)

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    11 months ago

    In the resolution for this (H. Res. 883), they repeat the “Hamas beheaded babies” and “Hamas stored weapons and intelligence in Al-Shifa hospital” lies. They don’t care that nobody believes this nonsense anymore, just keep repeating it.

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      11 months ago

      “Hamas stored weapons and intelligence in Al-Shifa hospital”

      …speaking of which:

      Israel Built Bunker Under Shifa Hospital, Ex-Israeli PM Says

      Barak, who was Israel’s prime minister from 1999 to 2001, responded, “decades ago, we were running the place, so we helped them.” The Gaza Strip has been controlled by Hamas since 2007.

      “It was many decades ago…that we helped them build these bunkers in order to enable more space for the operation of the hospital within the very limited size of these compounds.”

      Following a pause, Amanpour seemed surprised and struggled to find her next words. “That’s sort of thrown me a little bit.”