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keyboredtoday at 10:45 AM1 replyview on HN

Both-sides nonsense. We’re decades past assuming good faith from people who equate criticizing Israel with racism.


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dijittoday at 10:49 AM

There's so much documented evidence of people attacking jewish people who they call zionists without cause that I find this line of reasoning stupid.

In recent memory there was Ethan Klein, who is Jewish and has visited Israel but is openly critical of Israeli actions and supports Palestine; yet people harassed him and his wife constantly about him being Jewish.

I'd totally buy your argument, criticising Hamas isn't the same as being racist to Muslims, and criticising the actions of Israel is not the same as being anti-semetic.

I also buy the fact that Israel will defend themselves by claiming racism, something I've seen Muslims do in the UK too.

I'm absolutely saying both sides, because ultimately both sides seem to think it's ok to murder children, or to use people as pawns to be be killed to further their expansionist efforts.

But It's absolutely true that people are just abusing random jews under the mistaken belief that all jews are zionists, or all jews support israel.

Fuck, even people who live in Israel will condemn IDF actions.. There exists nuance of people on the Palestinian side online, yet that affordance is not afforded to Jews.

I find that quite ironic, and I'm personally not very chill with hypocrites.

Anyone defending rape or child murder is a fucking monster.

There is never valid justification, not even if the kid is carrying a suicide vest.

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