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    The appropriate, historically accurate comparison is to student protests against South African apartheid and he knows it. Reportedly, those very protests grew into the strong boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement that ended apartheid in South Africa. This is what he fears and what corporate media is actively trying to prevent.

    Only people with no information on either the actual history or current situation are going to fall for this baseless slander. Sadly there are probably still a number of those around.

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    Should have just said it was a school shooting and the Texas cops wouldn’t go in at all.

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    This is the new tactic for the dictators, just call <insert literally anything> a nazi. The Ukrainians, the protestors, my dog, all nazi’s. Projection at its greatest.

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    and I thought that the Nazi thing was the genocide

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      Same here, my friend. You and I both.

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      See, we all thought that.

      Turns out the problem wasn’t that they committed genocide. It’s that the genocide was directed at the Jewish people.

      And as Netanyahu would have you believe, if you’re against Israel, you’re against the Jewish people. So that makes you a Nazi.

      Flawless logic, clearly.

      /s

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    I didn’t think it would ever be possible but Israel managed to completely take the bite out of the word “antisemitism” and comparisons to “Nazi Germany”.

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      Its like the word woke. At this point I can only understand it if I know who’s saying it. Anyone related to the IDF? Then antisemetic just means anti genocide.

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        At this point I can only understand it if I know who’s saying it.

        That is the most frustrating thing about discussion these days. Everyone using the same words but speaking an entirely different language.

        When you don’t agree on the definitions of words anymore, or you don’t hold yourself to using them in good faith, then you take discussion off the table. You’re no longer debating; now you are just arguing. It’s one step away from violence.

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          Comintern is a word that can be uttered almost without taking thought, whereas Communist International is a phrase over which one is obliged to linger at least momentarily… This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every word easily pronounceable.

          Because we’re inadvertently building our newspeak, but to wield against the opposition. ‘Woke’ ‘chud’ ‘groomer’ ‘hippie’ lets you hang a label on today’s target of vitriol without understanding. Not understanding the theory, the origins, background, context, etc - we apply the label, the bad person gets chided, now move on to next outrage.

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      He’s delusional.

      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Jews and non-Jews to oppose pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the United States, comparing them to the antisemitism seen in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

      “What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel, they attack Jewish students, they attack Jewish faculties,” he said in a statement posted to X on Wednesday.

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        Netanyahu’s entire party are fascists, and Einstein called them out for being fascists shortly after WW2 (before they rebranded to their current name).

        Playing the antisemitic card is all they have left as they have no leg to stand on when critical thought is applied.

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          They also have money, which they’re using to its maximum effect.

          And there’s always the Mossad…

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          Playing the antisemitic card is all they have left as they have no leg to stand on when critical thought is applied.

          This has always been the case. It’s only becoming apparent to everyone now.

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            What’s becoming apparent is how we have quite a lot of extremely racist elites in the West that were posing as anti-racists whilst in their heart of hearths being quite the opposite.

            Now that the self-proclaimed representatives of one of their favored etnicities started very overtly commiting Genocide along racial lines against an etnicity they regard as inferior, they provided them with “unwavering support” even after the racist nature of the mass murder was obvious, all the while justifying it with the etnicity of the ones commiting the Genocide.

            The only thing more racist than supporting Genocide because of the etnicity of the genociders is to actually directly mass murder people because of their etnicity: if you’re supporting people committing even more extreme acts of violence for racist reasons than the Ku-Klux-Klan, you’re definitelly not against racism, quite the contrary.

            It’s amazing just how may leaders have very overtly come out of the closet when it comes to extreme Racism.

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      It really feels like an abused kid growing up to be an abuser in the exact same way their parents were…

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        Hey genius, I am an Ashkenazi Jew. I’m also working against Israeli apartheid and genocide and have been for decades.

        Let me guess- I also own all the banks and control Hollywood.

        I’m a mod in c/Jewish and you reply to me with that shit?

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          Someone says look in the mirror in reference to Bibi calling everyone Nazis… (Edit: apparently telling Bibi to look in the mirror is also a punishable offense)

          I make joke (can’t spell Ashkenazi). Directly to jail.

          World ends.

          BTW. I’ve long supported Jewish people and defended them against harassment. On and offline. I’ve talked so many people off the cliff of anti Jewish hate. Explained why the “families” and the banks and etc are bullshit conspiracies.

          Lemme guess, you make random guesses about people based on a single 4 word response.

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              Literally. No.

              I didn’t even use the word Nazi.

              And, dude, you literally, (literally), said “look in the mirror”

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                  Anyone can also see you said “look in the mirror” which equates to calling Jews Nazis.

                  Tell me the 4 words I wrote in response.

                  Was I being sarcastic?:leading? Antisemitic? Tellme the intent of the words I wrote in RESPONSE TO YOU.

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    All you have to do to get away with being a fucking nazi is call anyone opposing your genocide a nazi apparently.

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      I mean, generations of building diplomatic ties to the most influential countries in the world is pretty important, too.

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    Without delving into this event I’m going to take a wild guess and say that this is the common trope of framing something that is Anti-Netanyahu or Anti-Israeli or Anti-Zionism (Read: Far-Right Nationalism) or Pro-Civilian — and associate it with antisemitism. Let me edit upon review to see if I can confirm this hypothesis.

    Edit: I’d say I’m pretty much right.

    https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599

    https://www.vox.com/24138285/columbia-campus-israel-palestine-activism-sjp

    Times of Israel of course has a convenient anonymous student referring to chants that are curiously not captured on video/audio. If someone has something, then do let me know. I suspect like most things this is a matter of colorizing the protest by the few bad apples who, according to an AP article, were not even students. So you may have actual antisemites trying to hijack the movement; or you might have pro-Israelis trying to tarnish the protest by painting it in a bad light.

    Either way, the protests should be judged by the overwhelming narrative projected by the mass at large.

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    What’s funny is that the last time a nation which claimed to represent a whole etnicity, which was specifically targetting and mass murdering people of another etnicity with such intensity, inhumanity and extreme racist prejudice, and their leader would when their actions were criticized say that it was an insult to the etnicity he claimed to represent, the time was the late 1930s, the etnicity was the Arian Race, the nation was Germany and the leader was called Adolph Hitler.

    It kinda looks a lot like the ones who look like a “duck”, walk like a “duck” and quack like a “duck” - hence why most people are saying they’re “ducks” - are Netanyahu and his countrymen.

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    Netay……netaya….ugh cant say that name. But he seem to have learned from ww2, how to do horrible things that is. Fucking cunt.