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Israel condemns Spain over ‘antisemitic hatred’ after Netanyahu effigy blown up
(www.independent.co.uk)
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If they keep throwing around that word at every criticism, do they not realize they weaken their point a little bit every time. No one is sympathetic to their plight anymore as they have clearly become the aggressor beyond a doubt. Israel is Israel's problem. Destroying effigies of unpopular politicians is a tradition that dates back centuries, get over yourselves you big babies.
It's gotten the point where one must dig into every accusation of "antisemitism" to see if there's really bigotry or if someone just pissed off the Zionists.
If one must find out more every time one hears a word, that word's utility is gone.
that's the plan.
every time they kill a child on camera and say zionism==Judaism. they encourage people to become antisemitic. they then keep on going killing 1 in six people in Gaza. antisemitism grows. Antisemitic attacks increase, then their propaganda chants how only in Israel jews can be safe (demonstrably false). and get people to colonize new illegal settlements.
Israel wants antisemitism. zionism was always antisemitic.
It just makes me more strongly opposed to crimes against humanity. I still have close Jewish friends and former partners, and they're all against these genocidal tactics.
I'm trying to start a Bund cell in my town. so far it's only me.
I'm doing it after meeting some antiwar Jewish people and we tried making a Jewish antizionists group ... it was so frustrating, just a handful of white lib women who were complaining how "fuck Israel" is offensive or how "from the river to the sea" made them uncomfortable, or that the logo I designed (included the Palestinian flag) was uncomfortable for them. didn't come back.
next time I saw them it was in a protest, with me wearing a beanie with said sign embroidered in it (check you local library for a maker space), and a sign that said "fuck Israel". Burned those bridges. don't have time for the most milk toast bookclub.
-Theodor Herzl (paraphrased because I can't be assed to get the original quote).
They always have been; it just took a livestreamed genocide for Westerners to get the point.
People have been sick of them for ages but a lot of politicians in the Western world, are, for some reason, beholden to Israel and have always criticised people who speak out against them. Even when that criticism is entirely justified and has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with specific individuals in the Israeli government, and their personal actions.
I reckon the Epstein pedo honeypot that was run by Mossad and the CIA is a lot of that reason.
Also the US runs tons of digital surveillance of their allies and Israel specializes on things like remote hacking smartphones (most companies doing that shit aren't based in Israel by chance), so even when they don't have photos of the politicians diddling kids they'll have other compromising material on them such as evidence of Corruption.
Most politicians in the West nowadays are little more than posh salesmen devoid of ideology who were attracted to the job by the Power and/or Money, so the chances of them not being crooked in some way are pretty low.
They're the proxy state doing USA dirtiest work in the Levant. That's why.
Not really, proxy states individual doesn't go and bomb countries without telling the owner. It is a state the morphes and position itself to look like a proxy state. they spent billions controlling US government
USA doesn't lie
When you find out every single antisemitism statement and law are made to justify the moral of killing, prison, kicking out, and basically genociding the Palestinians people, who are the actual people who always lived there, the words and the laws doesn't mean anything.
What's ironic is that you are right - in addition, the idea that one person or one country is the embodiment of all of Judaism is actually the real antisemitism.
There is almost no other context where people pull this kind of nonsense, and if they do, they are usually marginalized as being half-wits. (For instance, dumbass conservatives may claim that criticizing American foreign policy is "anti-white" or "anti-xtian", but most people, even other cons, tend to treat them like the idiots that they are)
But for some reason, this line of argumentation when it comes to Israel has passed as valid for decades, at least in the Washington consensus.