Not some 300th degree of abstraction where you have to trace constellations to land on some vague anti-semitic idea.

I’ve had several instances in the past few weeks in which I’ve spoken to otherwise politically oblivious people and heard actual condemnation of the genocide. Followed up with the conflation of Israel with Jews, ascribing all the awful shit the piece of shit country to Jews in general.

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

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    Every leftists/progressives/Liberals defending Palestinian rights needs 5 minutes to make sure that Zionist feelings are safeguarded and that they condemn any violent Palestinian acts

    Right wing people defending Palestinians don`t care and just bulldoze everything in their path.

    Which of these 2 inspires confidence? because people don’t like to be associated with weakness. The fact that people still think you can debate people into being anti-zionist is insane, do you think zionists don’t know what Teodore hezl’s project is not a colonial project?

    The best arguments are telling them ‘‘I don’t care’’, ‘‘it`s not my problem that the genocidaire is Jewish’’ or just actively mock them

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        Half of Germans weren’t wiped out in a genocide in living memory (which makes israel all the more fucked up, but it is a difference between those two things). You can and should be anti Zionist but it’s wrong to think that antisemitism is somehow meaningless or not worth talking about when it is legitimate, just because they use it as a bullshit excuse doesn’t mean it doesn’t still happen pretty often too.

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          Israel was already in works before the holocaust - it only solidified Zionism in the surviving european jewish population and gave western states a very “good” reason to support israel without limits.

          But anyways, yeah anti-Semitism still exists but centering it each time when israel kills people is also a choice.