• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s evident that you’re cherry-picking tangential details to argue against, so let me say this in unambiguous terms:

    Accusing Jews of being unable to stop themselves from murdering children is unambiguous antisemitism with a long history dating back to the Middle Ages.

    People here are not accusing Jews of doing anything. We aren’t using “Israel” as a stand-in or dogwhisle for ethnically Jewish people or the Jewish religion.

    People are accusing the government of Israel of being unwilling to refrain from committing war crimes.

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      4 months ago

      Yes, I’m sure it’s a complete coincidence that Israel alone among all the countries in the world, including Syria (where Assad slaughtered more than half a million Syrians), China (engaged in the genocide of the Uyghurs) and Azerbaijan (who literally ethnically cleansed Nagorno-Karabakh of Armenians just last year), is the only one accused of being bloodthirsty child-murderers who regard non-Jewish children as less than human.

      Couldn’t be that a key theme of antisemitism over 2,000 years retains a deep hold on people’s imaginations and biases, influencing their views today even if they aren’t fully cognisant of, could it?

      Nah. It’s just a coincidence that it’s only the Jewish state accused of this.

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        4 months ago

        I’m sorry you must have slept through the last decade?

        Those accusations were absolutely there. They just weren’t a conversation because everyone agreed. Why are you defending a genocidal regime?