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Wow. Literally what the post was about. Israel was not mentioned anywhere here and yet when you saw a post criticizing racists who hate Jews you immediately popped up like “how DARE you slander me like this?!” Well. I guess you were right. Clearly you are indeed an antisemitic bigot so I guess the post WAS about you.

A couple things are really racist (and also just plain wrong) about with what you just wrote.

1) Nazism is a specific ideology, not a catch-all phrase for “bad people I don’t like.” And that specific ideology was founded on genocidal hatred of Jewish people. And ultimately led to the genocide of at leas 6 million Jews. There is no Nazi party in Israel. That wouldn’t be possible. Ergo there no Nazism in Israel. You’re just using a common antisemitic slur. To call Jews Nazis is extremely offensive and racist in addition to being ridiculous and inaccurate. The conflation of Jews or Israelis with Nazism was pioneered by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WW2 as part of their violent propaganda campaign to incite hatred of Jews and carry out post-WW2 mass pogroms and repression of Jewish people. It is antisemitic and always has been.

2) Also. Your post implies all Israelis are Jewish. In fact only about 70% of Israel’s population is Jewish. Israel is the most diverse country in the Middle East and regardless of heritage, every single Israeli is a “real” Israel. Only fringe bigots on the Israeli extreme far right would say otherwise. Erasing the existence of the many non-Jewish people living in Israel, including Druze, Bedoins, Armenians, Arab Christians, Arab Muslims, Circassians, Arameans and many others. It’s inaccurate like it’s wildly racist to say only a Christian of British decent is a “real” American it

3) Racist Jew haters and anti-Israeli xenophobes will often try to hide behind claims that they are being unfairly persecuted for “activism” or for “criticism.” This is, of course, ridiculous. But it’s a common tactic for bigots. Just like when conservatives get called out for making a transphobic comment they will try to claim that “humor isn’t allowed anymore” when really there’s nothing wrong with humor. There IS something wrong with dehumanizing trans people and promoting bigoted lies about them. Similarly, there is nothing wrong with criticizing the policies of the Israeli government or of any other government. However, what people like you do is not “criticism.” It is not criticism of a government policy to respond to a post condemning antisemitism by making a bunch of inaccurate and racist statements. You’re just a bigot.

You don’t anything about Israel. You’re not an activist. You’re a racist who saw a post about bigotry being bad and became enraged. You’re no different from a Conservative who loses their mind every time they see the phrase Black Lives Matter.

You don’t always have to be like this. You can change. You can better yourself. You can stop being filled with ignorance and malice. Look at yourself. Look at who you are. Look at what you’ve become - someone who spews hate because they saw a post on the internet condemning bigotry. You don’t want to be like that. Stop looking for acceptable targets to hurt and instead look at how you can help. Get offline. Go outside. Embrace compassion, love, education and nuance. Try to build harmony and unity.

And educate yourself. Here are a few good videos to start with.

Also, can we talk about this?

did none of their grandparents explain about genocide?

makes the Shoah into a teaching tool. It wasn’t a tragedy, it wasn’t something that killed over a third of all Jews, it wasn’t that. It was a Lesson to be Taught to the Jews, and we didn’t learn that lesson.

The lesson that they imposed on us: “don’t kill people, even if they want you dead, even if they are trying to kill you. Be perfect and meet our ever-changing standards, and maybe we won’t kill you.”

When, in fact, if we took away a lesson from the extermination of a third of our people, it was this much more reasonable lesson: “non-Jews cannot be trusted with Jewish safety, and while as long as we are a tiny minority that is not feasible, we can work on minimizing that dependence, and the simplest way to do so is to have the apparatus of a state to defend us”.

That ideology has a name.

Zionism.

Using the Shoah to justify Israel’s genocidal campaign is utterly morally repugnant. Consensus reality exists, international law exists, documented evidence exists, no matter how you continue to cudgel detractors by branding them as antisemites.

"If you gather enough antisemites together, antisemitism becomes reality" is a hell of a take, especially given that there are a little less than 16 million Jewish people in the world. We'll never be able to define the consensus under those rules; it'll always be a tyranny of the majority defining what's true about us. Less than half of the world's adults believe the Holocaust happened; a "consensus reality" view means that it didn't.

The Blitz wasn't a genocide. The bombing of Dresden wasn't a genocide. The 2003 invasion of Iraq wasn't a genocide. War is horrible, and can result in truly horrific civilian casualty figures. That doesn't make it a genocide.

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I haven’t been able to get this casual antisemitic rant out of my head for days. The use of “American Zionists” as a clear synonym for “Jews.” The way one bad actor is somehow acceptably emblematic of an entire group of people. The way “Hasidic” is purposely garbled and transliterated in the subtitle as “acidic.” The way we are dehumanized into a nameless “them.” The way the tactics of white supremacy are used toward the end—we are not just content to steal from Black folks, we’re coming for white folks too. (It’s the eternal Jewish conundrum: We are too white to be victims, not white enough for purists. Never mind that we are not a monolith, and some of us, like me, have roots in Eastern Europe and Spain and Egypt and Iraq.) The way it’s clear this person either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that Jews have a long history of having our property stolen from under us, whether during the Inquisition or the Holocaust or any of the other countless times we’ve been forced out of our homes. I screen-recorded this video because I refuse to give the original poster the satisfaction of a repost, and because that person might take it down (though it had 15k likes last time I checked, and only positive comments). The way there is absolutely no proof offered to support any of the allegations of a global and local conspiracy. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If you demonize an entire group in order to shine a light on injustice against another, you are not an activist, you are a bigot, and you are not helping anyone. Black-Jewish community relations are crucial in our collective fight against racism and antisemitism. This sickens me.

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