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In reply to the discussion: I firmly believe the use of the word "genocide" [View all]Sky Jewels
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You think if you disingenuously conflate antisemitism with criticism of the cruelty of the government of Israel, that you will silence people who are speaking out about the genocide in Gaza. It's not going to work. Also, you are undermining people who point out actual antisemitism, making it into a "boy who cried wolf" scenario, which is a huge disservice to Jewish people as a whole.
People don't take issue with Israel decimating Gaza because the perpetrators are Jewish. They take issue with it because it is an immoral mass slaughter, starvation and displacement of tens of thousands of innocents. Being Jewish doesn't give someone carte blanche to commit atrocities without criticism. I'd say that view is rather insulting to the Jewish people as a whole, the vast, vast majority of whom do NOT commit brutal, immoral acts like we're seeing perpetrated on Gazan people by Netanyahu's IDF.