it's okay to be antisemitic as long as you support israel in this genocide
weren't these people the ones that said antizionism = antisemitism? not like this is a surprise but it's still funny that these people loose their mask in seconds
If you are "both-sideist" and one side is Israel, and the other side is Hamas, I don't really see how that can be defensible or OK. Imagine being "both-sideist" and one side is the KKK.
Israelis will really look at the Peace Lines Potato Famine Island screaming "WE'RE LITERALLY SPEAKING FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WHEN WE LABEL YOU AS COLONIZERS!" and be like, "God, why are you being so antisemitic‽"
have a hard time buying halal meat like I used to before 7.10... I just can't get over the politics unfortunately. Even when I have no idea what the politics of the person who did the slaughter are.
Also, there’s something really funny about the ones saying Mia Khalifa.
Oh that’s the richest part, chuds accusing absolutely everyone who criticizes Israel of hating all Jews being all “after October 7th I just can’t trust anything made by a Muslim.”
Hell, that's what BDS and similar campaigns are accused of - with the intentional comparison to the nazi era "Kauf nicht bei Juden" ("don't buy from jews")
Yes, I can't step foot in a Middle-Eastern store like I used to, to stock up on certain products. I got to try an Iraqi restaurant back last year post 7.10, but only because I knew it was Christian owned.
Agreed- on doing business with Arab and Muslim merchants for now. They may be otherwise decent people but you just know what their views are going to be on the topic so why go there.
I went to a new, big like Turkish/middle eastern supermarket sometime after 7/10, couldn't stop thinking about while I was in there. I also am kinda loathe to return. Probably won't.
What the fuck?? I wouldn't even consider to stop going to a Jewish/Kosher place I liked because of Israel
The Iraq thing is funny too because like.....there are Christian Palestinians and Israeli missiles can't tell religion in that brief window before it lands. As far as I'm aware, Christian Arabs also despise Israel.
The Serj Tankian comments made me sit down.
They acknowledge that he's right about 9-11 but since he said it two days afterwards he's wrong or something and that he's Armenian.
I'm still trying to figure out what Armenians did to zionists to earn their ire outside of getting ethnically cleansed from Palestine in 48 and trying to stay in the Armenian quarter of Old Jerusalem.
Also, don't like Billie Eilish after her Oscars stunt with the ceasefire pin.
a ceasefire pin is the most mild fucking statement imaginable. "Ermm a generic peace for both sides statement? How dare you even SUGGEST we pause our mass slaughter of innocent life!"
There was someone in the thread calling some celebrity a pro Hamas antisemite for posting a selfie of herself in a green paragliding suit a week after October 7th because she'd been paragliding. She also practically immediately deleted the post and made a public apology but that still isn't enough apparently.
I had a look at the sidebar rules. There is the expected don't do this and don't do that which goes on and on. But there's something that made me laugh. The ninth list item at the very end. They basically say they'll give you a temporary or permanent ban based on vibes.
Emphasis mine.
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Not every sub is shit. The large ones over 50k (or maybe 100k) subscribers are almost guaranteed to be shit. And the mods there are like busy body middle school kids who achieved their dream of being an asshole slash narc with a zero percent chance of getting stuffed in a locker again.
But smaller subs can be chill and the mods are actually there to make the sub better and not worse. There's no "my way or the highway" modding.
Kanye West is antisemitic but particularly on this conflict, he hasn’t commented (as far as I know). One TMZ interviewer asked him about it and Kanye replied something along the lines of “I don’t know enough..ask me about the dying kids in Chicago, that’s what I’m concerned with”.
"Hate me and mine for ethnic reasons, that's fine, but I draw the line at calling a genocidal spade a spade."
Ethel Cain. She released a song called From the river… very unfortunate I really loved her.
(She’s trans, no doubt she’d be killed the second she steps foot in Palestine).
Let's make a list. You (this commenter) draw up the people Palestinians murdered for being broadly LGBTQ+ in the last 10 years, and I'll try to write down the children IOF murdered in the last week.
Thankfully most of my favorite artists are dead :( but I have unfollowed and blocked a lot of activists. I’m an animal rights activist and unfortunately the childishly black-and-white “total liberationist” ethos has taken over a large portion of the movement, especially the younger/newer people. Jews are oppressors and they won’t hear otherwise. I hope as time goes on they look back on this and adapt their thinking. In the meantime, I’m connecting with Jewish animal advocacy groups.
"Black-and-white 'total liberationist' ethos" talking points: Genocide is wrong. Murder is wrong. Starving people is wrong.
Let's make a list. You (this commenter) draw up the people Palestinians murdered for being broadly LGBTQ+ in the last 10 years, and I'll try to write down the children IOF murdered in the last week.
Not even children, just list the queer Palestinians killed by Israel. I guarantee it’s higher than anything Hamas is capable of.
Anyone pro-Israel on queer grounds should be forced to read that heart wrenching Queering the Map post in Gaza about a queer Palestinian who never told their partner their true feelings, and now the partner is dead from an Israeli bomb
I’m an animal rights activist and unfortunately the childishly black-and-white “total liberationist” ethos has taken over a large portion of the movement,
It happened to a ton of communities I'm in especially anything with a lot of LGBTQ activity. Luckily I'm in some groups that don't allow anything political
Damn anti-genocide movement, politicising my apolitical Queer activism.
r/Israel has the same relationship with r/Arabs that lemmy libs have with Hexbear, just ten plus years of those zionist cretins getting absolutely rinsed every time they walk into that sub
It’s comical though considering Oliver is a liberal in every sense. He just halfassedly speaks out about Israel’s crimes and that’s apparently too much for Zionazis. Fragile pieces of shit can’t go extinct soon enough. You can practically taste the fear from the young ones who bought the fascist bullshit and continue to through a genocide. They seem to know it’s all crashing down and no amount of whining over John Oliver’s libbed up takes will save their project
I don't find Oliver particularly bad, I just don't think he has ever once in his entire life been funny without a team of writers and he cannot deliver a joke from those writers well at all.