This was on the front page a day or 2 ago, right near the top:
It seemed... inorganic. And I'm not sure what the gold trim is on those posts. Other posts didn't have them.
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The yellow means the post or comment has received "gold." Basically, people paying to boost or highlight the post. Screams bot activity to me, or at the very least a very unsubtle propaganda post made by some underpaid Israeli keyboard warrior trying to further associate anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism.
Yes I have heard of this. They don't even need to be Israeli.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/pro-israel-trolls-mobbing-twitter-community-notes/286099/
https://forward.com/news/388259/shadowy-israeli-app-turns-american-jews-into-foot-soldiers-in-online-war/
how do these pictures associate anti-Semitism with anti-zionism
The pictures themselves are fine. It's the fact that the posts are very similar, paid, and pushed to the front of a feed in a time when an ethnostate wearing the Jewish identity is carrying out a genocide on a captive population. It feels, as OP said, inorganic.
Of course the pictures could also be read as a reminder of what Jewish resistance really stood for, which would conversely carry a distinctly anti-Israel sentiment, and the optimist in me wants to believe that. I can't see the comments on the posts, so I have no way of knowing for sure.