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While antisemitic actions are terrible, they need to decouple being Jewish from Israel.

People showing solidarity with a population being ethnically cleansed by a theocratic fascist government, is not antisemitic no matter how the zionists try to spin it.

Nobody's hating Jews. We all say fuck netanyahus Israel and people like you say "hey you can't be antisemitic" and very intentionally never fucking acknowledge the difference exactly as you are doing you damn hypocrite

Intifada is not more "antisemitic" than Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was anti-aryan. Both are uprising against nazi aggressors.

I would personally rather stand with most of people than with bloodthirsty genocidal Israeli regime.

So, where is this antisemitism you are referring to?

Edit: oh wait I forgot it's ok to hate Jews on Lemmy.

Edit 2: I'm not even going to entertain these comments purposefully ignoring the calls for murdering Jews. Disgusting. I think antisemitism on Lemmy is evident.

You are ridiculous.

Zionism is a settler colonialism project that was able to really start with the support of British Imperialism. Zionism as a political movement started with Theodore Herzl in the 1880s as a 'modern' way to 'solve' the 'Jewish Question' of Europe. Western Nations supported this instead of instituting legal protections and refuge for Jewish people fleeing persecution.

Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.

Since at least the 1860's, Europe was increasingly antisemitic and hostile to Jewish people. Zionism was explicitly a Setter Colonialist movement and the native Palestinians were not considered People but Savages by the Europeans. While Zionist Colonization began before it, the Balfor Declaration is when Britain gave it's backing of the movement in order to 'solve' the 'Jewish Question' while also creating a Colony in the newly conquered Middle East after WWI in order to exhibit military force in the region and extract natural resources.

That's when Zionist immigration started to pick up, out of necessity for most as Europe became more hostile and antisemitic. That continued into and during WWII, European countries and even the US refused to expand immigration quotas for Jewish people seeking asylum. The idea that the creation of Israel is a reparation for Jewish people is an after-the-fact justification. While most Jewish immigrants had no choice and just wanted a place to live in peace, it was the Zionist Leadership that developed and implemented the forced transfer, ethnic cleansing, of the native population, Palestinians. Without any Occupation, Apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, there would not be any Palestinian resistance to it.

Herzl himself explicitly considered Zionism a Settler Colonialist project, Setter Colonialism is always violent. The difficulty in creating a democratic Jewish state in an area inhabited by people who are not Jewish, is that enough Palestinian people need to be 'Transferred' to have a demographic majority that is Jewish. Ben-Gurion explicitly rejected Secular Bi-national state solutions in favor of partition.

• Page 8, The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948

• 10 myths of Israel by Ilan Pappe, summerized and full book

• Transfer Committee and the JNF led to Forced Displacement of 100,000 Palestinians throughout the mandate.

The existence of Hamas, and any armed resistance movement, is directly due to the decades of violence experienced daily under the permanent occupation, the Apartheid State, of Israel. It's impossible to understand their existence if you don't understand the lived experience and material conditions they are forced to live under. There is no such thing as a perfect victim when it comes to anti-Colonialist resistance, not for the Vietcong, the IRA, or the ANC either. Can you condemn the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the same way as the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto?

In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video

Calling for the murder of Jews = antisemitic. Doxxing doctors who have nothing to do with what's going on in Israel = antisemitic

Examples of neither are in this "article", sweetheart.

I’m with you. That’s not good!!

Aaaaaand of course you're downvoted. There's genuinely no difference between lemmy and reddit at this point