• qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It’s not surprising that antisemites would also protest Israel, but that doesn’t mean we should stop protesting Israel. There’s nothing more to it. We should not fall for our opponent’s tricks trying to paint us as antisemites

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      I’m not saying stop protesting Israel. I’m saying don’t use the slogan that’s used by Antisemites, if you don’t want to be confused with them.
      What’s wrong with shouting “Free Palestine, End The Occupation” instead?

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        Because our opponents will always be nibbling at what we can and cannot say and we should resist and reject their bad-faith criticism. Our opponents are trying to paint us as antisemites. Your honest attempt at distancing ourselves from antisemitic groups has exactly the opposite effect: It legitimizes their criticism where it was never in good faith to begin with

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          I’m honestly just confused why people who aren’t antisemites would insist on using the first part, alone.
          And omit the second part “Palestine must be free”, thereby creating the ambiguity of what they mean in the first place.

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            Why concede that ground, though? It’s not about the second part. They will always find something. Stop playing their game, you can’t ever win. It’s in bad faith

            There must be an Innuendo Studios video about this one, right?

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          Do you believe the same for the “anti-immigration” protests too, or were you calling everyone attending them racist and/or Nazis?

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      Isn’t the left saying that if you let one Nazi into a bar you now have a Nazi bar? Same applies here. There are many anti-Semites in these protests chanting this saying, therefore everyone there is an anti-Semite.

      This isn’t me making the rules, it’s just applying the rules the left set and try to force on everyone.