• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Please don’t learn from AIPAC, most people here are highly critical of Netanyahu and the IDF but bear no ill will towards jews - hell - most of the jews I know are highly critical of Isreal themselves. The unleavened hat line reads as a pretty innocuous association joke - it’s not antisemitic by nature.

    AIPAC has put us in an awful situation by refusing to distinguish between real antisemitism and criticism of Netanyahu - this is a false dichotomy being pushed by a hate group and we need to reject it. Sadly, AIPAC is directly responsible for the resurgence of social acceptance of antisemitism in the modern US.

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      8 months ago

      There is no such thing as an innocuous association with Israel, that’s like an innocuous association with the Green River Killer or something. I doubt that commenter had ill intent, but making even very lighthearted or positive jewishness jokes in the context of a story about Israel is just going to lead to irrelevant tangents like this one at best, and it ends up feeding anti-semites and AIPAC ammo at worst.