This is all by design, any criticism whatsoever get equated to anti semitism and the eventual outcome, of course, is that the entire word gets so cheapened that by a year from now nobody will care about it anymore.

It's the typical an of short sighted dictatorial wannabe types

That's their hope. The administrations of some governments are purposely doing moves to embolden terrorism, embolden racism, embolden hate. Then when someone with the wrong skin color does something terrible, they can say, "see? War were declared." Let the wartime profits rain in!

Jewish people are great, the people of Israel seem to be smart and clever, their engineering seems first-class. Their government? Up there with the USA Federal government on the list of terrible things that need to go away.

It isn't really racism

It has a lot more to do with covering up the lack of basic ethics in Gaza.

As with everything, it isn't about the watermelon, it is about the symbol it represents. To anyone that doesn't want to excuse / explain, a symbol represents something - in this case support for Palestine. So it is treated the exact same as if she had a Palestinian flag in the background. Especially because she is Palestinian.

The only idiotic part is the "antisemitic" thing, when 1. Palestinians are Semites too, 2. Supporting Palestine isn't antisemitic.

I'd probably ask a person with a flag background to take it down too tbh, no matter if it was the Israeli flag, Palestinian, British or US. Just probably not for those reasons that they stated.

this is a bit like when homophobes get upset over rainbows

And not in the way you'd think

Supporting Ukraine = nonpolitical

Supporting Palestine = political

Now ask these people about Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan. Let's see whether their classification is really based on religion. :-\

Ukrainian flag - not political. Russian flag - political.

Israeli flag - not political. Palestinian flag - political.

I think that's the point of the lawsuit. You can't claim you're "completely apolitical and non-biased" when you actually support one side of a conflict and punish your employees who support the other side.

All flags are inherrently political. A flag is the ultimate symbol for nationalism. Usually you shouldn't display them in any context, especially in a job that makes you face people from different backgrounds, ethnicities or nations.

So yeah, I'd tell someone to take off the Ukraine background too, not for the "someone might be offended" reason

supporting the status quo is always political but invisibly so

I can't believe you would post something so blatantly antisemitic!

:sprinkles some tajin on it:

Ow, my... Judaism? Idk, can I have some too? I'll share my gala apples.

Guaranteed they'd embrace pineapples, with bells on.

How dare you

It is a little funny to me that the extreme right is being torn politically. On the one hand they hate Jewish people but on the other they don't want left leaning politicians.

It must be hard being a far right white supremacist.