• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Antizionism and antigenocide being called a different thing. I’m so sick of their playbook. It’s old and tired and makes me sleepy.

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    If any critique is called antisemitism than you really wash it down until real antisemitism gets swept under the rug. But whom am i kidding, they WANT more antisemitism as it will lead to more hate and that is literally what that fascist government thrives on.

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      An Israeli-American teenager was indicted in Israel on Monday on allegations he made thousands of hoax bomb calls, some targeting U.S. Jewish community centers, and earned $240,000 by offering to phone in threats against schools, hospitals and planes. The arrest of the suspect, who is Jewish, in Israel on March 23 drew headlines when he was identified by police as having been behind bomb threats against the centers in the United States that had raised fears of a surge in anti-Semitism.

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-indicts-u-israeli-teen-over-bomb-threats-124544464.html

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          This is from 2017 but there have been other cases like these. I still remember the sentiment back then:

          well even if this was fake, we know there is a lot of semetism out there, so he is still doing public a service to draw attention to it.

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    Is there a word in English that means “Labelling everything you don’t like as [extreme negative word] and thus watering down the meaning of [extreme negative word]”?

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    I guess we need to find a word to capture the atrocities that are being done to people of a certain belief system in the world.

    Or should be just call it ‘g3n0c1d3’?

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      Sir Keith Stammer has assured me that this isn’t genocide. Said so in the House Of Commons. Why would he lie?

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        In this particular case Netanyahu is calculating that Starmer is weak and making this accusation will get Starmer to back down in some way. He could actually be right.

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        Does he stammer? And even if he did, it’s not exactly a clever nickname. Then again, the “Keith” thing is pretty dumb