@DropBear@serge There is so much wrong with your post that it would take forever to properly unpack... Primarily you are tokenizing Jews via one of the most fringe sects out there. Secondly, you fundamentally do not understand what Zionism is.
Until your post popped up in my feed, I'd never heard of Babka @serge
You're evidently confused.
You're evidently also confused about what constitutes antisemitism. If you're trying to use the IHRA Definition, that's understandable:
"...the IHRA Definition is unclear in key respects and widely open to different interpretations, it has caused confusion and generated controversy, hence weakening the fight against antisemitism."
Hey @EyalL your not a coward running from a conversation, don't you? So it seems like you blocked @DropBear by "mistake". Just want to make sure that you won't miss his reply:
Israeli Zionism (as distinct from other forms of Zionism, Jewish and otherwise) is the notion that someone who claims to be Jewish is entitled to take the home of a Palestinian, solely because they claim to be Jewish. Such injustices precipitated the October 7 atrocities and continue to endanger Jews worldwide.
Abuse of the term "antisemitism" has effectively neutered the concept. Here's a definition for you: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
As Miko Peled observed, Israel and Palestine are the same place. He believes that Jews and Arabs can live together peacefully. That may be true, but by all appearances, it's true of probably less than 20% of the population. You are evidently not among that 20%, EyalL. https://mikopeled.com/
"Clear majorities of respondents say they back peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstrations and ‘an immediate ceasefire,’ but 61% feel the protests ‘crossed the line into antisemitism’"
This is demonstrably wrong and easily corrected by reading. There is virulent #Antisemitism from both sides of the political spectrum. Perhaps it would shock you to know that this has been the case for many decades. But it shouldn’t.
Canada’s largest private high school recently organized a genocide solidarity trip in which students cooked for Israeli soldiers. In a sane world, the school’s charitable status would be revoked.
It looks like @EyalL has blocked me. Here is the reply that I was going to send him:
Israeli Zionism (as distinct from other forms of Zionism, Jewish and otherwise) is the notion that someone who claims to be Jewish is entitled to take the home of a Palestinian, solely because they claim to be Jewish. Such injustices precipitated the October 7 atrocities and continue to endanger Jews worldwide.
Abuse of the term "antisemitism" has effectively neutered the concept. Here's a definition for you: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
"Last Saturday, the Minnesota Republican Party formally endorsed Royce White, a former NBA basketball player, to be the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate."
As Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria report, White wrote in 2022 that "many of the Jewish people have lost their faith in a loving God," and their faith has been replaced by "materialism."
"White defended Ye (formerly Kanye West) after the rapper praised Hitler in 2022. At the time, White criticized Jews for focusing on the Holocaust 'to provide a victimhood cover for their own corrupt practices.'"
In 2023, White stated In July 2023, White lamented that “women have become too mouthy.” He has stated that “[t]he LGBTQ movement is the brainchild of radical feminists and their cucked men.”
I just stumbled onto something horrifying, neo-Nazi symbolism seemingly hidden away in #Unicode. The first Unicode #Hebrew codepoint, corresponding to א, is u05D0. The integer corresponding to the hex? 1488. You can't convince me that was a mere coincidence.
A quick reminder to all that if you say "I support Jews but not Zionists", this is still a form of antisemitism, because:
Being against "Zionism" means you are against the existence of the state of Israel, and being for its destruction means the death or forced expulsion of 7 million Jews
It's part of the "Good Jews/Bad Jews" trope
That being against >80% of any group is ultimately indistinguishable from hate for that group.
Throughout this article, Michael Gove conflates anti-zionism with antisemitism and implies that all Jews are zionists and/or pro Israel.
It's the first shot in a new culture war, by using Jewish people to ban organisations fighting for the rights of Palestinians.
Gove himself is cynically weaponising antisemitism.
...with Lara Friedman & Rabbi Jay Michaelson on the Antisemitism Awareness Act
"There's something innane about this: in order to engage in criticism of Israel, you have to be an antisemite"
~ Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace.
The US Senate is expected to vote soon on the Antisemitism Awareness Act.
...with Lara Friedman & Rabbi Jay Michaelson on the Antisemitism Awareness Act
"There's something innane about this: in order to engage in criticism of Israel, you have to be an antisemite"
~ Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace.
The US Senate is expected to vote soon on the Antisemitism Awareness Act.
With the campus attacks on Jews going essentially unreported by "polite company", allows them to call these protests peaceful, which then provides moral justification for them to continue.
The existence of Jews who are being physically assaulted, who are blocked from accessing their dorms or classes, who are terrorized with threats of violence and murder, all of this is so easily dismissed to allow for the label of peaceful protest. In fact, they might argue it's the presence of Jews who make it non-peaceful.
It's a modern day interpretation of a "First They Ignore You, Then They Laugh at You' that feels very 1930s Germany.
First They Marginalize You. Then They Ignore You. Then They Exterminate You.
Thought crime fascism and persecution of academics are resplendent in "free speech" US, with famed historian Ilan Pappe detained and grilled at Detroit Airport. He's not the "right" kind of Jew for the US fash. #Fascism#Antisemitism#StopArmingIsrael#ZionismIsWhiteSupremacism