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Mastodon.social removes anti-genocide post (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by timewarp@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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I've generally felt like progressives were the first community to call out the genocide being committed by Israel. I also had assumed Mastodon.social was more progressive, although I had seen lots of defense of genocide when Biden was the one supporting it. Recently however I encountered a post claiming Palestinian was a newly invented term to describe Arabs in Gaza, and that the word Palestinian itself was antisemitic & represented the eradication of Jews.

I responded that statements like this makes it easier to dehumanize Palestinians, and that there really is no difference between Nazi Germany & Israel at this point. However, the mods at Mastodon.social removed my response claiming it is Holocaust inversion.

There are plenty of Jews that are against the genocide & mass murder Israel is conducting. It is a real shame that Mastodon.social mods believe the genocide being carried out by Israel represents the views of all Jews worldwide, and the mods intend to use the Holocaust to justify it.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where is the link to the removed post?

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Here you go:

https://mastodon.social/@devgnostic/114624118505068269

BTW, here is the post that was being responded to:

https://mas.to/@Dingsextrem/114622072481693290

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Looks like neither archive.org nor archive.today captured it :/

Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Christians are no less Palestinian than Palestinian Muslims, all of whom lived together in relative peace for centuries before European settler-colonists came and ethnically cleansed Palestine and formed an apartheid ethnostate on their land. If Arafat called the settler-colonial génocidaires “foreigners,” he was as correct as when Native Americans called European settler-colonists foreigners. And yes, obviously the genocidal ethnostate ought to be dismantled, just as the apartheid South African ethnostate should have been and was.

The OP also claims that settler-colonialism “definitely is not happening in Gaza,” and that he is both antifascist and Zionist. Standard German socdem brainworms.