• davel@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Three reports to the effect of hate speech so far.

    Some people can’t distinguish a people from a state. A genocidal apartheid settler-colonial state, at that.

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        3 months ago

        Image titles:

        Flag of israel

        Israeli flag

        Israel flag

        Using the google algorithm, which by design includes related results, is probably the worst way to “prove” anything.

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        3 months ago

        Exactly: As your Google search result shows, the state of Israel putting the star of David on their flag was a brilliant propaganda move, much to the detriment of non-Zionist and ant-Zionist Jews. Zionists work very hard to have us conflate anti-Zionism with anti-semitism.

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    3 months ago

    Quite a few downvotes from Germans, even more than I expected. A lot of Germans are confidently incorrect about Zionism, Zionists, and the settler-colonial state of Israel.

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      Losurdo has a few good chapters specifically about a lot of the modern german ideological support for zionism in his book War and Revolution.

      It’s a really complicated subject, dealing with the historical guilt from the judeocide, and supporting Israel being an easy and surface-level way to alleviate that guilt.

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      3 months ago

      As an Israeli who is losing his mind over what is happening and is learning about the less positive side of Zionism, I feel the same. In essence, we have a battle between two extreme groups, one more civil and normal-looking in terms of outer appearance than the other.