Israel/Hamas War Superthread

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(12-26-2023, 01:18 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Please do answer the following question(s).  Do you agree with such comparisons and do you think such comparisons are antisemetic?

You know you can count on me to answer serious questions directly, whether I get the same courtesy in return or not.

1. No, don't agree that Israel=Nazi Germany. 

2. Protests against Israeli occupation and war crimes are generally an affirmation of universal human rights violated by the occupation and dispossession. Anti-semitism is based on the opposite.* The protestors in your images did not regard Nazi equivalences as positive. So in general it does not seem such comparisons are anti-semitic, though I'd have to judge case by case. E.g., there could be accelerationists in the mix cooking up who knows what in the way protest posters. 

A question for you now: would you be in favor of Israel dropping its "Jewish character" as an ethnic state to adopt full national, political, and civil equality for all its current citizens? It does claim to be a "democracy" after all, and its US partisans frequently defend it as the only such in the ME. 


*If we are going by the usual definitions of anti-semitism as either theologically based hostility to the Jewish religion and all its believers, or as hostility to Jews as an imagined racial community, or combinations of both. Criticism of Israeli policies which violate human rights would not be anti-semitism under these definitions.