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The meme is broadly generalizing Israel as a homogenic society that casually murders children on a regular basis and omits that Israel is in fact a diverse society. By doing so it reproduces the ancient antisemitic trope of ritual child murder and blood libel. Neo-Nazis and other racist antisemites would therefore love this meme. From an antifascist perspective this meme is absolutely unacceptable.
Israel is not Judaism and it's not an ethnic group by your own admission. The idea that the Jewish people employ dark magic rituals that murder and consume children is antisemitic. The idea that the police and military of Israel, with the public at broad's supports, kills children in the interest of national security is not.
We can distinguish between the two. You don't seem to separate them, which is antisemitic.
Sure, that is why I called it out when i saw the meme ...
The idea that the police and military of Israel, with the public at broad’s supports, kills children in the interest of national security is not.
Ask ultra-orthodox Israelis about this, you will be surprised.
You just claimed that the majority of Israeli citizens supports child murder, at the same time you are perfectly aware that this majority is Jewish, now who is being antisemitic?
They did not claim that the majority of Israeli citizens supports child murder because they are Jewish.
Stop making shit up.