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There are Hamas fighters, future Hamas fighters, potential Hamas fighters and Hamas sympathizers. All belong to Hamas. There might be other categories as well.
- Saw someone else post this on lemmy:
  WCK surely stands for World Central KHAMAS.
- So eventually Israel will genocide everyone else and itself?
  
  Research friendly fire incidents and the Hannibal directive in the IDF. No one kills Jews more efficiently than Israel.
  
  Fascism has to create new enemies to remain relevant.
  
  They definitely have nukes, so it's on the table.

Every whole in the ground is a Hamas Tunnel, every Palestinian is Hamas, every person critical of Israel is pro-Hamas.
You can see it everywhere, not just Israeli Propaganda (and even that from its unwavering supporters like Germany and the Biden Administration) but even here posts accusing somebody critical of Israel of being pro-Hamas are common.
- Ooh, be careful with those views. Someone who doesn't understand what antisemitism is might call you an antisemite.
- I've definitely seen exchanges like that here. "Maybe genocide is bad." And then some nutjob going off asking if they really think Hamas would welcome them.
- In Germany they are also loosing Respect.

Out of curiosity, did this post got shadow-banned?
If I go to: https://lemmy.world/c/politicalmemes?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay I can't see it
- I don't think so, I think the post is more than a day old by now
  
  Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing
  My bad, I think this was the issue!!
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

- While the word antisemitism has lost all meaning because of israel labeling everyone critical of them as anti-Semitic, it's better not to use it ironically as people will conflate anti-israel with anti-Semitism and it might negatively affect real jews against israel.

i have information about a khamas base below the white house, as well as downing street.

Sorry guys, no one's allowed to comment on the fact that Israeli soldiers are killing children, journalists, and aid workers. If you do it's antisemitic because of their noses. Sorry I don't make the rules
/s

Literally disband the state of israel but damn they had to use the nose huh?
It’s like the Kelly video where he’s all “you gotta give me the teeth!”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂💀💯💯

No-one else is going to question the use of "khamas"? Really?
Hamas is 5 letters long, it's not like it would have been difficult to get the spelling right.
- It's apparently a play on words. "Khamas" in Hebrew means "violence".
  
  You mean chamas?
- I thought it was to visually add an accent.
- Alternate spelling.
  
  Eye dialect
- I'm guessing it was intentional. This is the first time I've seen it called "khamas," but what I understand from looking it up is that it's how the word is commonly written/pronounced in english in Israel. (If I'm wrong, please correct me!)
  
  I've never once heard anyone, Jewish, Israeli, or otherwise, pronounce Hamas with a k.
- It's the standard transcription of the Arabic sound, which is closest (in fact, pretty much identical) to the Hebrew sound which is typically used to pronounce the first consonant in Hamas. Blame the bad Arabic-language education is Israel for not pronouncing it correctly...
  This is, as far as I know, not a word in Arabic, and non-standard transcription for Hebrew — the standard would be "Ḥamas" or "H̲amas" (using "ch" is common but non-standard as well).
  
  Have you ever seen anyone, anyone, spell it "Khanuka"?
- Israelis can just say "Hamas" like everyone else. For some reason they just decide not to.
  
  That would be chamas, not khamas.

Really? We’ve basically descended to antisemitism now?
I 100% think the use of force in Gaza is genocide and a war crime, but this is a cartoon I’d expect from the Right. We’re better than that.
Looking forward to the downvotes for my ground shattering opinion that racial generalizations never have a place in political commentary.
EDIT: I’ve never been happier in my life to be downvoted. Keep them coming. I love how I even said in my initial comment that I do not support Israel and think they’re committing genocide (which is the general Lemmy opinion), but I’m still getting toasted. I would say the same thing about a WWII cartoon that made racial generalizations about Asians, or about the imperialist cartoons of the late 1800s that made generalizations about any number of a group of other people.
- Criticizing Israel's government is not antisemitism.
  
  And the big nose shit is a critic of said government and not antisemitism at its finest in what way exactly?
  
  Is this cartoon doing that.
- Israel are not the Jewish people. You've been propagandized to. I'm sorry and fuck off.
  
  Yeah, the cartoon really conveys that with its stereotypical depiction of a Jewish person.
  There are better ways to represent a country.
- Okay Hasbara.
- Being against the state of Israel does not make one antisemitic. Just like being against the US doesn't make you anti-christianity. States and religions are not the same thing.
  People aren't down voting you because of groupthink. They are down voting you because of OPs and your bad take. Quit whining. Get better takes.
  
  the downvotes are because the opinion expressed is not only wrong, but monstrous. its like saying "its complicated" about the holocaust or any other of the myriad of crimes committed by the nazis. it is fucking not and muddying the waters by stating otherwise makes you nothing but a genocide apologist.
  from the river to the sea
  
  Oh yeah, I’m not worried about it at all.
  It’s just disturbing to me to see the side that I see as the good guys (the left) getting increasingly drawn into the trap of violence and discrimination. It’s like no one in politics has the ability to self-reflect these days.
- You've learned a valuable lesson today. A large fraction of the Lemmy userbase is anti semites who got banned from Reddit for advocating for violence against Israel.
  
  "Everyone that downvotes me is an anti-semite! REEEEEEEEEEE"
  
  Violence against genocidal ethnostates is justified, why would anyone be banned for saying that?

Subtle work there with the nose.
- Both the press and the soldier have quite a large nose so that doesn't seem to imply much.
  
  It’s about the color on one of them
  
  I didn’t say which nose.
  
  As an artist myself, nothing is ever an accident. There wasn't any need for it to tell the story. Using bigotry to describe genocide is a misstep.
- Come on, that's just a cartoon nose. It's not even close to the racist stereotype of Jewish noses.
  The Jewish nose, or the Jew's nose, is an antisemitic ethnic stereotype referring to a hooked nose with a convex nasal bridge and a downward turn of the tip of the nose
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_nose
  
  I didn't think today I'd be looking at people arguing a Jew depicted with twice the size nose as the other character in the panel while speaking in broken English was going to be argued as not stereotypical because it isn't hooked enough.
  Certainly didn't think I'd see it as the upvoted opinion.
  Not at all like classic stereotypes or anything:
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vw-g6JzHii8
  
  Yeah totally different
  /s
- Did you happen to notice the detached eye floating in mid air?
  
  A famous Jewish trait
  
  Yet another hurtful Jewish stereotype! /s
- You're right. They also didn't use the Israeli flag, instead opting for just the Star of David.
  
  You might want to take a look at the israeli flag.
  
  The flag is the star of David, no? I guess two bands of blue make a very subtle difference.
- Honestly I think eye dialect is the real grotesque part of this.
  Most Israelis are native English speakers or were raised speaking English, there's no reason to have used satirical grammar except to portray a gross ethnic stereotype.
  Not to mention that I think it undercuts the premise to make it about ethnicity.
  
  I'm sorry maybe I'm missing something, but how is it a stereotype to have the character speak like an idiot? The artist is trying to show that Israel in general is being idiotic, so this character speaking in a grammatically incorrect way matches that.