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Don’t forget to report antisemitism, y’all.
and learn to know the difference between anti-zionism. most day to day life you’ll see people trying to pass off a notion that anti-zionism is anti-semitism from positions of power. but here lemmy it’s far too common for someone to push anti-semitism under the guise of anti-zionism.
zionism is an ideology built on hate. you cannot counter it with hate. you can only counter hate with empathy. sometimes that empathy will take the form of supporting people countering violence with violence in desperation to survive. pacifism is not an activity. it is a social value. in order for there to be peace, there must be people who weild their access to violence to protect vulnerable people from those who would weild violence for their own petty and ephemeral pleasure.
what’s more is that zionism is not a universally held jewish belief. the majority of the diaspora is against israel’s apartheid state. we don’t like it. it looks far too much like the apartheid states we lived in with the only difference being the aesthetic of the state. we find that shit offensive.
The photo doesn’t even do him justice, watch the video. He’s a PERFECT representation of the worst of Israel in one person.
He’s Israel’s Trump, I expect this man to run for office, and win
Video? Where?
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I provided a link but it was auto-removed
Just search “l’espresso video” it should be on first page. Duck duck go.
Let me know if Google censors this on search, that would be funny
The Israeli dudes you see like in the videos of them spitting on women in hijabs on the street etc all look like inbred mongos fr
The young, angry, undereducated men are used as the tip of the spear against people living in the region.
Imagine the government encouraging angry high-school dropouts to come assault you and they can have your house.
It is a very punchable face.
Why didn’t you link to the article? I really don’t get this picture of a Tweet thing Lemmy loves so much.
Sir, this is a memes community.
Here’s the original article: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-envoy-italy-calls-magazine-antisemitic-over-settler-violence-coverage
Ok? So post memes, then. Tweets are not memes, unless they become insanely popular.
We have found THE MEME DECIDER
p.s. you should look up what ‘meme’ means some day
That’s not a tweet bro.
brother/mother sister, cousin wife.
Why does everybody insist on calling enemy occupiers, “settlers”?
When Russian civilians move in to annexed Ukrainian lands they’re not called settlers. Settler suggests peaceful civilians moving somewhere they’re allowed to inhabit, to start a new life.
They’re invaders. Occupiers. Thieves.
Settlers my arse.
I assumed most people use the term ironically, as “settlers” immediately brings them and their routine violence to mind. We know they’re not actually settling. That’s the joke.
It’s a really bad joke, but I get it
Poe’s Law
- you’re absolutely right, settler is the word the colonists want you to use
- historically, i can’t really think of any settlers who were peacefully domesticating unloved land. i think you can really only look at pre-historic first movers as non-violent “settlers” since anyone who’s been a settler since the invention of the written word has settled land against the interests and will of the indigenous people of those lands
The colonizing of North America, especially in the first century after its “discovery,” was often done by settlers moving into empty land. Except that the only reason it was empty is the inhabitants had already been killed by disease brought by the Spanish. Within 150 years after contact, the population of the Americas was reduced by 93%.
additionally, eurocentric world views tend to see nomadic people as less than. for the Apache, Blackfoot, Comanche, Crow, Lakota, Nez Perce, Ojibwe, Sioux, and i’m sure many others, that “empty” land didn’t look empty at all, even with their numbers reduced
Yes, I was also thinking of that. Very common for colonizers to arrive in seasonally-used lands and think they were empty until the natives showed up.
It is factually incorrect that it was all disease. America actively committed a violent genocide and murdered millions.
Oh I did not mean to imply that colonizers didn’t actively murder as well, but manifest destiny was a couple of centuries after the period that I’m talking about.
the time period @FlyingCircus@lemmy.world is referencing predates America existingt as an idependent entity by about 2 centuries. the original rape of Turtle Island was a collaborative effort between the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English primarily. groups from Germany, Denmark, Scotland (which wasn’t yet unified with England), and Polish-Lithuania were also involved
Zionazism.
L‘ Espresso just gave the term „Israeli Settler“ an associated image the Israeli regime decidedly dislikes.
I think that’s perfect TBH. Let them use euphemisms (like collateral damage, alternative facts) as much as they want.
Use it too and then rip away the mask with a photo like this.
This.
You will never convince me that Israel is not literally just trying to follow every antisemitic stereotype on purpose.
IDF soldier 1: “Hey, guys, you know what would be funny. Ha, what if we drank the blood of our victims babies? Ya, know, because that was an antisemitic lie the Nazis told about Jews. But, ya know, we do it ironically.”
IDF soldier 2: “You mean like pretend we are doing it? Like when we take pictures in our victims lingerie. Like, ironically though. You guys aren’t actually taking their lingerie back with you. Are you?”
IDF soldier 1: “…”
IDF soldier 2: “…”
IDF soldier 3: “So, when are we drinking baby blood?”
they are, netanyahu uses anti-semetism to justify that they need continued aid from the west, and to expand in the MIDDLE east.
In the 1948 Nakba the IDF poisoned wells in Palestine with typhoid, then cried antisemitism when they were accused of poisoning wells, due to the age old antisemitic trope. They literally did the thing that Jews throughout the ages have been falsely accused of and often died for, so that they could block any investigation. Words fail to describe the cynicality of that evil.
Okay, first off, that lie was from the czars not the nazis. The nazis just repeated it. Slandering the forebears of the real jews (weak diaspora jews are obviously all fake) is so fucking antisemitic. How dare you. How FUCKING DARE YOU.
Edit: also, the jewish people have a sacred right to drink the blood of your children and saying otherwise is antisemitic.
I think the sarcasm is being missed, but this is the internet and there’s no /s, so who knows…
Not being in the process of active genocide is antisemitic.
Pfff, what are, stupid?
It can be genocide and still be antisemitic. It has to be actively furthering Israel’s geopolitical ambitions to be kosher. Go zion go, amirite!
/s, because there be nutjobs that think that
Wait you dont mean it for real!?
Its not completely a stereotype. Early judaism was temple animal sacrifice based. Going back a bit further, its a historical fact that they did kill children for a fertility ritual. Its true that they dont do it lately but they used to.
https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-1-57506-494-9.html
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It’s entirely a stereotype, popularized by European autocratic régimes as a way to channel popular resentment away from nobility and royalty.
At the time when ancient Israelites were sacrificing animals, the practice is the norm all around the Levant, the Fertile Crescent and the Mediterranean, so nothing special. If you want to “go back a bit further” you’re not talking about Judaism anymore but about earlier Canaanite and Mesopotamian religions.
If it was entirely a stereotype, then why is it factually true enough that rabbis are writing about it as a way to reconcile ancient texts with modern understanding of the religious concepts, and not framing it as a hostile stereotype?
The whole basis of the religion is ancient texts of exactly that era you are now playing down here, is it not?
Dude. That is literally true of all societies and religions at some time or another.
What is this? This is like “it was promised 3000 years ago” levels of irrelevant. It literally doesn’t have anything to do with the real blood libel shit Nazis were doing.
I really hope this is just “technically Andy” brain you got going on.
This is like “it was promised 3000 years ago” levels of irrelevant.
If we go by time for relevance isnt everything in Jewish and Christian holy books irrelevant too then? When does Jewish history start again, can you remind me?
And you bring up nazis if I mention historical facts you dont want to talk about? I’m not a nazi. I beleive in universal human rights and dignity. Thats what so many of my comments are so very anti-israel. They are the ones whose actions are so like nazi actions, and you are the one helping them by throwing around accusations whenever you don’t like historical facts. I think the nazi here is much more you than me, but hey, you do you, Herr friendo.
Didnt Isaac, the second of the 3 patriarchs of judaism, try to sacrifice his son at gods command only to be stopped at the last possible second by an angel, who gave instruction to Isaac to sacrifice a ram instead?
The takeaway for jewish people in that story is that they should no longer sacrifice their children, but animals instead. So um why was that story ever even needed if it was completely irrelevant to judiasm?But everyone loses their mind when we talk about the history of sacrifice in Judaism at all, it seems. Its an unfortunate fact of history that it was done, and you cant revise your way out of that fact. Little bit late to control and whitewash that narrative, that ship has sailed whether you like it or not. Judaism evolved over time and is not what it once was, thats a fact. You can google “when was human sacrifice outlawed in Judaism” and you will see it was a reform of judaism, not a founding idea. Fact.
I suppose you could try to burn a bunch of books to try to get rid of those historical facts? I think people like yourself burning books would be right on brand, right? You’ll need to burn down google too I guess.
You seem to have replaced the Jewish supremacy of an ethnostate like Israel with an unhealthy and unhelpful hyperfixation that seems to accept everything that Israel says about Jewish people but just reaches a different conclusion.
It’s like if Israel said “yes Jews are actually magic money people, but it’s good”. You would just say “Yes, they are actually magic money people. But, it’s bad”.
You’re also acting like the fundamentalist views of a religion represent all people of that religion.
What is even helpful in what you’re saying? Your rambling about stories that are literally a part of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs.
You – not me-- started by denying the factual history of sacrifice and then just temper tantrummed. Isnt that why we are replying to each other in the first place? If you want to object to facts, next time bring facts to prove them wrong.
Or be quiet. History does not depend on your acceptance or rejection of it.
What point are you trying to make? You’re rambling again.
Is your point still that Jewish holy books have human sacrifice in them? The books that are a part of literally every Abrahamic religion? That’s it?
Like, your inability to bring relevance to that point doesn’t mean I’m “denying” the content of religion books.
Your rambling about shit because you’ve convinced yourself I’m “denying” something that im not. I’m saying it’s not relevant.
Has anyone noticed how, whenever you see a picture of an Israeli settler, they all look like bad guys from Mad Max?
They are
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Whew lad, literal nazi behavior
if only people cared as much about the actual genocide going on
Oh my god, I am not disagreeing with the fact that genocide is bad and Israel is doing it. Tarring all Jews with the brush of Zionism is something both zionists and nazis do. Surely you understand the statement, not all Jews are Zionist? And just how much of your ass is showing with an extremely racist, racialized meme?
People criticizing zionists are not criticizing jews. Jews are a religious group. Zionists are an extremist group who happen to be Jewish.
This is like saying that not all Muslims are Al Qaeda. Of course they arent.
stop conflating jews with Israel
it’s more like saying not all American’s are Nazis
or not all cops are bastards
obviously all these statements are true, it’s just no one rational is going to give a shit
and caring more about the image being painted than the literal children being maimed is lol
Israel does not represent Jewish people.
Israel does not speak for the Jewish people.
Israel does not reflect thoughts of the Jewish people.It’s a colony bringing “Judeo-Christian civilization” in their manifest destiny east.
It reflects thoughts and intentions of US politicians at best.
Ummmmmmm no ty
Why bro look like a McPoyle
That’s what happens when you mess with McPoyles! You get fork-stabbed!
I want to punch this guy
That is a really good photo. And it was cropped perfectly for the cover.
I’d say hand it the Pulitzer, but there has been an absolute glut of award-level material so far this year.
you’re absolutely right, settler is the word the colonists want you to use
I just checked the previous awards, it is virtually only US newspapers.
yeah the award is specifically for american journalism. it was established to callenge the hegemony established by the robber barons who in the late 1800s were buying up all the legacy newspapers, undermining independent journalism
imagine if like… jeff bezos bought the washington post. that’s basically what was going on. and because the robber barons weilded so much political power, the award required one of those robber barons setting up the award in his will. because he certainly wasn’t gonna cede that power in life.
the only valuable journalistic outlets from that time were local newspapers run kind of secret, and Mother Jones which was at the time covering how the industrial boom in the urban north was coming at the cost of coal miners’ blood
he probably can bite that phone in half with thos gnashers.
It is antisemitic in the sense that Israel has claimed the word, in that it accurately portrays the reality of Israeli colonialism
