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The lemmy.ml admins couldn't handle someone pointing that any conversation about Palestine should be centered around the Palestinian victims undergoing a literal genocide and not on Judaism, because in the present day Jews are just privileged white people who aren't facing any systemic oppression but are even systemically privileged.

An instance pretending to give a voice for the the Global South in the end just censors non-Eurocentric opinions to the point of censoring for genocide.

Apparently they didn't instantly delete the comment after banning me but did so hours afterwards, probably because others agreed with me.


This part of the post pertains a feddit.uk post which I assumed was a crosspost but this was not removed by the lemmy.ml admin and this part can be ignored. Leaving it here for reference

The ~~admins~~ feddit.uk mods also removed a post ~~from my own community~~ because the post cites TheDailyMail and that is not a "reliable source" despite the headline being completely verified including a link to the UK government report itself. Might as well introduce MBFC next.

Here is TheGuardian saying the same thing: Government expected to accept recommendations of review, which found three in five Jewish students had experienced prejudice. And here is an even more extensive debunk of the report found on the "ultra radically left" /s Hasan Piker subreddit

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[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Saying "Zionism is not Judaism" is important is because so much of the Zionist rhetoric is about anti-Zionism being antisemitism, which it blatantly is not. It's denying the primary arguing point of Zionists trying to shut down criticism.

[–] geneva_convenience@thelemmy.club -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Absolutely false. Zionists couldn't care less about the distinction. They will abuse the antisemitism card no matter how well you distinguish. Research in the UK showed Jew hatred was DOWN but they added anti Israel sentiment and then said it was up.

That's why the myth of rising antisemitism needs to be addressed. But then the Zionists come out and concern troll the movement and say anyone who denies there is extreme antisemitism is a secret nazi. Thus empowering the Zionists to keep going.

[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The argument isn't for the Zionists, it's for the people the Zionists might influence.

[–] geneva_convenience@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They don't care how well you make the distinction. They will give the money to Zionist organisations anyway by abusing conflating Zionism and Judaism to pump up antisemitism numbers and then turn it into a weapon to support Israel.

In case of the OOP it doesn't refer to individual Jews but to Judaism as a religion where Zionism has become core doctrine over the last century. Of course most people don't know this because there #ZionismIsNotJudaism signs are constantly shoved into their face and acknowledging the reality quickly gets you met with accusations of being an "antisemite" even here on Lemmy by all the Liberal Zionists. 99% of Jewish Organisations Worldwide are Zionist

Governments such as in the UK and Zohran Mamdani in the US can then give millions of dollars to "combat antisemitism" to Zionist organisations which will then use this funding to fight anyone opposing Israel. Zohran just came out and said he basically wasn't able to find any non-Zionist Jewish organisations to give the money to and therefore gave it to Zionists. But apparently he's not "antisemitic" for this because he's the favourite DSA poster boy.

And the reason why is because people are refusing to address the crux of the issue that there is "rising anitsemitism" when in reality there just isn't. Jews aren't facing any type of systemic discrimination and are just very privileged white people. There's no reason to do massive PR campaigns for Judaism all the time. Focus on Palestinians instead which are literally getting genocided.