• Szymon@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Please don’t give the idiots a soap box. Supporting Palestinian right to life and territory doesn’t mean you support the destruction of Jews or Israel.

    Believe it or not, people can come together in peace when old racist rich fucks that want power, land, and money stay out of it.

    • Swarming@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think burying this and pretending it didn’t happen is helpful when Jews around the world are telling us right now that they are terrified and under attack

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah it is important for us to also condemn antisemitism and make very clear that the Jewish people and the Israeli government are not the same.

      • CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, like there was incidents of pro Palestinia people drawing stars of David on the doors of jews or throwing molotovs into Synagogues…

    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I think it does need to be acknowledged that there is a faction of people that absolutely do support the destruction of Israel and Jews. Hamas was elected, it should be remembered.

      That absolutely does not mean that support for Palestinian statehood requires you to be opposed to Israel’s existence, but advocates for peace should be very clear that this kind of rhetoric is absolutely not tolerated. And conversely, advocates for Israel must absolutely reject the people that would support the complete removal of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.

      There are extremists on all sides, and genocidal rhetoric must not be tolerated, wherever it comes from.