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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Antizionism and antigenocide being called a different thing. I'm so sick of their playbook. It's old and tired and makes me sleepy.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If any critique is called antisemitism than you really wash it down until real antisemitism gets swept under the rug. But whom am i kidding, they WANT more antisemitism as it will lead to more hate and that is literally what that fascist government thrives on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An Israeli-American teenager was indicted in Israel on Monday on allegations he made thousands of hoax bomb calls, some targeting U.S. Jewish community centers, and earned $240,000 by offering to phone in threats against schools, hospitals and planes. The arrest of the suspect, who is Jewish, in Israel on March 23 drew headlines when he was identified by police as having been behind bomb threats against the centers in the United States that had raised fears of a surge in anti-Semitism.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-indicts-u-israeli-teen-over-bomb-threats-124544464.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

dafuq?! how was this not bigger news?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This is from 2017 but there have been other cases like these. I still remember the sentiment back then:

well even if this was fake, we know there is a lot of semetism out there, so he is still doing public a service to draw attention to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

hey go easy on that nail buddy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

UK is Hamas. I knew it all along.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Way to spot the truth!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's about time somebody called him a jewish supremacist to his face, live on TV.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Is there a word in English that means "Labelling everything you don't like as [extreme negative word] and thus watering down the meaning of [extreme negative word]"?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

To "cry wolf", raising a false alarm for attention. In the story the idiom references Peter's sheep are eventually devoured by wolves as he cries for help, which the villagers assume is yet another prank.

Time will tell if truth matches fiction.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Being a gobshite?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Reductio ad Hitlerum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Semantic bleaching.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess we need to find a word to capture the atrocities that are being done to people of a certain belief system in the world.

Or should be just call it 'g3n0c1d3'?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sir Keith Stammer has assured me that this isn't genocide. Said so in the House Of Commons. Why would he lie?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

In this particular case Netanyahu is calculating that Starmer is weak and making this accusation will get Starmer to back down in some way. He could actually be right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does he stammer? And even if he did, it's not exactly a clever nickname. Then again, the "Keith" thing is pretty dumb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The name Keith Stammer is not meant to be taken literally 🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are making such a joke of themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Never go full Guiliani.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Zionism uses Jewdaeism to disguise their Fascism.